Mother of Winter - Hardcover

Five years after the Dark Ones have disappeared, the world is growing colder, and when grotesque creatures that can defy any magic appear, ex-Californians Gil and Rudy help the wizard Ingold attempt to resurrect the past in order to save mankind, in the sequel to The Darwath Trilogy.

il so ancient that not even legend remembered its name. But that dangerous, forgotten wizardry was alive again, summoning nameless servants into being and drawing down the glacial ice to crush the Keep of Dare--and, indeed, all of the world.
Five years after vanquishing the Dark Ones who had so nearly destroyed the civilization of Renweth, the remnant of that once-great kingdom huddled in the keep, on the brink of starvation. Their survival depended on magic--and magic as they knew it was powerless against the strange, cold force abroad in the world. Ghastly, unnatural growths were spreading across the land, invulnerable to hex and to axe. Whatever those repugnant and ever-spreading things might be, they killed the local flora and fauna, even as they seemed to spawn bizarre, unheard-of creatures to further their grisly work.
Ingold Inglorion--Archmage and, perhaps, madman--believed that the source of the life-and-soul-destroying power lay to the south, in the war-torn theocracy of Alketch,