The first volume in this thrilling trilogy opens on the
barren plains of Below, where Hokk and his fox sidekick,
Nym, live in exile amid the remnants of our modern age.
Overhead, on the floating islands of Above, Elia is trapped
in a life of endless toil and drudgery as a laundress for
the Mirrored Palace. To Elia, the islands’ edges are borders
that no one dares cross until the ancient ritual that
delivers the dead to Below. But a series of natural
disasters rumbling through Above sends Elia’s world crashing
into Hokk’s—and she falls Below.
Their journey together will propel them across endless
plains and through shattered cities in a centuries-old
battle for the very earth and sky around them . . .