Magician's War — D. Bruce Cotton

War has come. We can stand as men, hoping to win the day, or be ground beneath the boot heels of a tyrant. There is no neutral side in this conflict.With those words, Adam Gray struggles to rise from the ashes of despair, only to find himself friendless and alone. Shunned as love's betrayer, he can find absolution for his crimes through victory alone.Yet how can one man hope to endure against the hordes of evil incarnate? The harder Adam struggles to unravel the webs of malice and deceit, the more entangled he becomes in the Dark Mage's snares.War has come, indeed. And it leads Adam to one terrible conclusion:Perhaps this is a war he's destined to lose.