"You must die to enter." The hooded gatekeeper tells me as he hands me a silver cup. "Drink from the chalice and you will enter the city of the dead." Freya lives in the calm peaceful village of Aston, but longs for something more, for an adventure. Her life is very uneventful until her parents are kidnapped by thugs and taken to Mortus, the city of the dead, a place far in the mountains that is so silent and dark that they say only the dead roam there. All who have traveled there have never returned except an old man who spins tales of danger and dark magic. Despite the danger Freya travels up the mountain, determined to save her parents at all costs. As she makes her journey to the city of the dead, Freya wonders if there is any chance that she and her family will make it out alive.