From feral packs of bog-hounds to goblin gang wars, Old Man Barrow''s solved plenty of problems with the swing of his axe... but when a routine troll hunt spirals into a brush with a would-be doomsday cult, he may be in more trouble than he can chop his way out of. Saddled with Ari, a sharp-tempered witch with little patience for his blood-soaked ways, Barrow is dragged into grotesque occult rituals, the jeering warbles of trash-talking songbirds, and a fight he can''t win on his own... whether he admits it or not.