A tale of fear from best-selling author Tanya Huff! Scholar ofDecay is the story of a man driven by love into the darkest cornersof the world. When Aurek Nuiken's wife is attacked and madeprisoner by an evil mage, he must search the Domains of Dread forthe spell that will allow him to free her. But ultimately hiswife's freedom - and his own - lies in the hands of a clan ofwererats who are not inclined to assist him. Faced with both hisown torment and the monsters of the Ravenloft world, Aurek ispushed to the edge of madness and to a choice that no man shouldever have to make.