Darkness stalks the swamps. Benji and his friends have escaped the clutches of the Church of Sunne and fled Undernal. Now, with their original plan failed, they must brave the Mildidar Marshes to reach the safety of the marsh city of Elgárnd. Benji never thought he'd see the day he returned home, but now every footstep through the eerie marshes brings him closer to everything he left behind. Deep down Benji knows why the marshes are empty. The sense of loss is everywhere. But while that loss consumes the people above the marshes, power is growing under the water. Something moves beneath the earth. Meanwhile, the group know Sunne is pursuing them. A terrifying assassin had been released, and tensions run high in the swamps. The friends have a long way to go, and many dangers to face, but only if they don't kill each other first! Magic in the Marshes is the second book in The War of the North Saga and continues the epic adventure of Steel & Stone.