About the Book
Surrounded by a vast, poisonous desert, Echo City is built upon the
graveyard of its own past. Most inhabitants believe that their city and
its subterranean Echoes are the whole of the world, but there are a few
dissenters. Peer Nadawa is a political exile, forced to live with
criminals in a ruinous slum. Gorham, once her lover, leads a ragtag band of rebels against the ruling theocracy. Nophel, a servant of that
theocracy, dreams of revenge from his perch atop the city’s tallest
spire. And beneath the city, a woman called Nadielle conducts macabre
experiments in genetic manipulation using a science indistinguishable
from sorcery. They believe there is something more beyond the endless
desert... but what?
It is only when a stranger arrives from
out of the wastes that things begin to change. Frail and amnesiac, he
holds the key to a new beginning for Echo City — or perhaps to its end,
for he is not the only new arrival. From the depths beneath Echo City,
something ancient and deadly is rising. Now Peer, Gorham, Nophel, and
Nadielle must test the limits of love and loyalty, courage and
compassion, as they struggle to save a city collapsing under the weight
of its own history.
