Cursed Quest: Book Three of the Six Stones Trilogy

Young Orren Randolphus and his friends Haxel the goblin, Marett the heiress, Quartz the stone giant, and cranky Anselm have arrived in the dark city of Wardolam, located in a cursed and abandoned crater. The shadowy beings on the Wardolam city council have tricked Orren and his friends into accepting upon themselves an obligation that comes with a curse. They must find and retrieve all six gwellen within three months and place them in the hands of the council head. If on the stroke of midnight at the end of the three month period, they have failed to complete this task, they will become transformed into undead beings, trapped forever in the cursed crater to slavishly guard Wardolam, without hope of ever escaping their bondage.

Orren and his friends face an uphill battle, however, for Lord Berthus is proving as wily and clever as Orren himself. Moreover, the small group has been forbidden by the shadowy council from taking with them the two gwellen they have already found, which makes their task so much more difficult, owing to the attraction the stones have for each other. Possibly the only hope they have lies in the Bearers' Web, a telepathic connectivity by which the questers would be able to support each other mentally.

Is there any hope of overcoming so many insurmountable obstacles? Or will they fail in this cursed quest?