title: Defeat the Darkness (Paladins of Darkness, Book 6)
author:  Alexis Morgan 
description: "This is so hot!" -- <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Susan Sizemore
zlib_text: > > **The Companions are back and so are their enemies in the second volume of
  > the Lost Chronicles!**
  
  > > Kitiara discovers that a former lover, Tanis Half-elven, and his friends
  > were responsible for the death of Highlord Verminaard. This revelation puts
  > Kit in danger, for Emperor Ariakas hears of the connection and suspects Kit
  > of having arranged the assassination. He orders his witch, the exotic
  > Iolanthe, to spy on Kit, who clinches her own doom by becoming obsessed with
  > finding Tanis, an act that convinces Ariakas that she is indeed a traitor.
  > But Kit is not one to take a sentence of death easily.
  
  > > Kit’s rival, Laurana, begins her own journey to destiny as she travels to
  > Icereach with Sturm, Flint, Tasslehoff, and three Solamnic knights led by
  > Sir Derek Crownguard. The knights are on a quest for the fabled dragon orb
  > that will be the salvation of Solamnia. What none of them know is that they
  > are all being led into a deadly trap laid for them by the wintern