"The world had gone to sleep, and the nightmare Horlas raged! From one horizon to the next, the vicious Horlas horde cut a wide swath of terror and torture, murdering, looting, and destroying what they couldn't carry away on their mongrel ponies. Only one force was powerful enough to stop them - the mighty female warriors of Somelon. But they'd been beaten back into the mountains, leaving only Sheryl behind.
"Golden-haired Sheryl was the daughter of the noblest of all Somelons. The Horlas had taken her mother long ago, then her father had gone, leaving her an orphan. Now, Allukah, the demented queen of the Horlas, had snatched Sheryl's lover, Kio. Sheryl vowed revenge. Strapping on her armor, Sheryl stalked into the desert to flush out her destiny, and with it the future of the human race!"