Since the death of their idolized king, Nimr-Rada, the people of the Great City have defiantly continued to build his monumental tower that threatens to touch the heavens. But a desperate power struggle threatens to shatter the city's peaceful fa ade, and the Most High's faithful ones are unwillingly drawn into the fray. Captured and imprisoned by her mother's enemies amid political unrest, Shoshannah struggles to escape the Great City and be reunited...