MER is the fifth volume of THE STEWARD series. Folklore and fantasy enmesh with physics and forensics. How can an entire realm suddenly be at risk, and only a handful of perplexed people be aware? How can organized crime threaten realms of the Multiverse with such perverse and rampant drug addiction? Is this a long-term strategy to create and control an immense black market, or a far more subtle and sinister bid for ultimate power? Perhaps even worse, will the steadily increasing frequency of necromantic incidents herald the resurgence of roaming legions of ravenous resurrected deceased, led by another Lord of the Dead? Ellen Doyle, Steward of the Grand Portal of the Realm of Man, there's a call for you . . .