SUMMARY:
Two of the best-selling Guardians of the Flame novels in one large volume: The Heir Apparent and The Warrior Lives. When it all began, it was just supposed to be a game: Seven college students sitting down for an evening of role playing with Professor Deighton. But Deighton turned out to have something more bizarre in mind, and the game quickly turned real and deadly. The students found themselves in a world where magic worked-too well-with their only way home the near-mythical Gate Between Worlds. Years have passed, and their earthlike existence now seems like a fading dream. They have fought and tricked their way into positions of power, building an empire seeking justice for all and the abolition of the widespread slavery they had found when they arrived. But they have also made many extremely powerful and dangerous enemies. And one of these in particular has decided that the time is ripe for eliminating these idealistic troublemakers from another world once and for all. . . .