Hunt the Husks - Or Be Hunted. That is Jebediah Skayne"s fate. Husk is a Maresman Tale from D.P. Prior, the author of Deacon Shader and the Nameless Dwarf, and also set in the same world as those popular, fan-favorite series. DESCRIPTION They call them "husks", the demons that cross the Farfall Mountains, leaving a trail of blood in their wake. And no incursion goes unmet; otherwise the cancer would spread until the whole of Aethir was consumed by these nightmares. This is why the Maresmen were formed - trackers and warriors charged with holding back the tide, each of them uniquely suited to the task at hand. But one thing they hold in common: they are half-breeds, part human, part husk; and they are bound by an inviolable rule: Hunt the husks, or be hunted themselves. Jebediah Skayne has been hunting husks his entire adult life, but there"s something different about the trail leading to the fishing town of Portis on the shores of the Chalice Sea: no spoor, no footprints;...