Synopsis: Tartarus was a land created by Lucifer for the Daughters of Lilith. But now those who lived there in eternal boredom were the men and gods who had died on Earth fourteen centuries before. Alan MacDougall had entered Tartarus through a gate in an ancient Scottish Tower. After escaping, he had vowed never to return. But now something was drawing him back. Again he came to the tower and gain he opened a gate - this time the second one. That, as he soon discovered, was a mistake. The second portal did not lead to Tartarus, but to the dark and ugly land of Ochren, where the gods of the Underworld ruled over the hopeless suffering of the dead. And while he and his friend Taliesin sought to escape the evil plots of those gods, Alan knew that Ahriman, the lieutenant of Lucifer, meant to entrap him in some long planned scheme from which there seemed no possible escape! (from the back cover of the Del Rey Books first edition)