In a land torn apart by civil war, pestilence, and shaky alliances, a man branded a traitor may be the world's only hope....The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what society - and his family - ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he will meet his end in water, blood, and ice. Her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen, half-dead, in a rainy wilderness, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure and possessing only a stolen book of maps.
Offered sanctuary in a nearby monastery, Valen discovers that his book - rumored to lead men into the realm of angels - gains him entry into a world of secret societies, doomsayers, monks, princes, and madmen, all seeking to unlock the mystery of the coming dark age. For the key to Navronne's doom is buried in half-forgotten myth - and in the secrets of his own past....
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