For centuries, the Seven Cities have enjoyed peace and prosperity. Four strangers - a mute scribe, an orphaned prophetess, an elderly politician, and an egomaniacal autocrat - independently pursue glory, fame, and forbidden knowledge as they approach the end of the age. Will their increasingly intertwined paths lead to enduring peace or unspeakable horror? Eli Evans' imaginative and thought-provoking debut novel is a genre-bending literary...