So, I hunted them. I sought challenge after challenge, beast after beast, prey after prey. I've enjoyed hunting them. Sometimes they wounded me greatly, brought me to the brink of death, but I still enjoyed the hunt. I finally found a meaning in my life again, through a form of hunting I never practiced or even desired to practice while I was a wood elf. And now, I am content with my new life. I've accepted what I am, and grown to like it. If my people could see me now, they'd call me a monster. Indeed, that's what I've become. But it can't be undone, and then why is it bad that I've come to like what I am? They may judge me, but I care not. Not any more. I am no longer one of them, no matter how much I'd have liked to be. And I have accepted it by now. A monster I may be, but I'd rather be a monster with a meaning in life, than live a life with no meaning whatsoever. - Flora E'Lyn, 1 year, 3 months, and 20 days before Twilightfall

Volume two of the Rider of the Black Horse pentalogy, Monsters continues the story of Emptiness. Jason Vogan has returned to the world of Kh'Tal in the company of Flora E'Lyn. While he plots a new plan to take retribution for the horrors he had lived through and for the lives he had taken, a terrible fate befalls Flora in Kh'Tal, changing her life forever. Meanwhile in Re'Cas, Councilor Worriil prepares to initiate his plans of conquest in Ess'yer, and only Councilor Jenathar stands in his way. As Jason and the vastly changed Flora travel to Re'Cas, the threat of a large scale confrontation begins to build up which threatens to bring about a dark age for the world of Arghard. We are a little over a year away from Twilightfall.