Christopher Dane

Four battle-weary Crusaders take on a mission to track down the evil predator who has abducted all the men and children from a devastated village.

Set near the end of the Third Age of Middle-earth. Arathorn takes refugees to Taurdal, the village of his father, Arador. Then as Arador begins his campaign against the gathering orc bands in the north, he sends Arathorn onward to find the motive behind these Orcs attacks.