A party of adventurers must brave the horrors of Ravenloft in this official Dungeons & Dragons
novel! Five strangers armed with steel and magic awaken in a mist-shrouded land with no
memory of how they arrived: Rotrog a prideful orcish wizard Chivarion a sardonic drow
barbarian Alishai an embittered tiefling paladin Kah a skittish kenku cleric and Fielle a
sunny human artificer. After they barely survive a nightmarish welcome to the realm of Barovia
a carriage arrives bearing an invitation: Fairest Friends I pray you accept my humble
Hospitality and dine with me tonight at Castle Ravenloft. It is rare we receive Visitors and I
do so Endeavor to Make your Acquaintance. The Carriage shall bear you to the Castle safely and
I await your Arrival with Pleasure. Your host Strahd von Zarovich With no alternative
and determined to find their way home the strangers accept the summons and travel to the
forbidding manor of the mysterious count. But all is not well at Castle Ravenloft. To survive
the twisted enigmas of Strahd and his haunted home the adventurers must confront the dark
secrets in their own hearts and find a way to shift from strangers to comrades—before the mists
of Barovia claim them forever.
