'Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.'

Salamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords, is under threat from an enemy whose power would seem to be absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. Ungatt Trunn can make the stars fall from the sky, the very earth shake underfoot, and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn, the wildcat appears unstoppable. The mountain's defences are weak. Who can save it now?

Salamandastron's only hope is the badger Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress by an undeniable sense of destiny. If he is to rescue the mountain from the dark days of vermin rule, Brocktree must raise an army capable of combating Trunn's formidable Blue Hordes.

Join Lord Brocktree and Dotti the irrepressible haremaid as they hourney to Salamandastron, gathering a host of brave creatures to fight alongside them in the ultimate struggle: good versus evil. Brian Jacques' masterful storytelling spins a web of high adventure that will enthral the reader from the first page to the last.