Dragged from the frozen peaks of Erondàr into the scorching deserts of the Hyborian Age, Conan of Cimmerian and Ian Aranill found their dragon quarry dead and the stolen gems already gone, claimed by savage hands. Following rumors from locals at an oasis encampment, their trail leads to the cursed ruins of Kuthchemes, a city of black magic where Conan has faced untold horrors before. But they may be too late. The nameless tribe camped among those ruins has inadvertently unleashed the dark magic within the gems, and what that power is doing to human flesh may be something neither warrior is prepared to face...