Description
For a thousand years, the Wall of Weeping Ice has marked the end of the known world. It is a cursed, impassable barrier from which no explorer has ever returned. Beyond it, according to myth, lies Aethelgrad-a lost city of impossible wealth and forgotten knowledge. To most, it is a children's story. But when a young historian discovers a cryptic journal from the last doomed expedition, he finds proof that the city is real. Now, he must assemble a team of outcasts and venture into the frozen maw where legends were born and armies died. They seek the truth of a lost age, but the Wall wasn't built to keep the world out. It was built to keep something in. The unveiling of Aethelgrad may not be the discovery of a lifetime, but the beginning of the end.
Introduction: The Anatomy of a Lie
