The hotly anticipated seventh volume in the New York Times bestselling Safehold series.
For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the
human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God
Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new — no new inventions, no new
understandings of the world.
What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud — a high-tech system established by a rebel
faction of Safehold’s founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the
powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth.
Then awoke
Merlyn Athrawes, cybvernetic avatar of a warrior a thousand years dead,
felled in the war in which Earth was lost. Monk, warrior, counselor to
princes and kings, Merlyn has one purpose: to restart the history of the too-long-hidden human race.
And now the fight is thoroughly
underway. The island empire of Charis has declared its independence from the Church, and with Merlyn’s help has vaulted forward into a new age
of steam-powered efficiency. Fending off the wounded Church, Charis has
drawn more and more of the countries of Safehold to the cause of
independence and self-determination. But at a heavy cost in bloodshed
and loss — a cost felt by nobody more keenly that Merlyn Athrawes.
The wounded Church is regrouping. Its armies and resources are vast. The
fight for humanity’s future isn’t over, and won’t be over soon...
