With Ruthers dead and the Library Accord signed by Recoletta, its neighbors, and its farming communes, Jane and Malone are in limbo as the city leaders around them vie for power. In the final book of the trilogy, they will cross the sea to discover a civilization that has held together over the centuries, learn the truth about the Catastrophe that drove their own civilization underground, and decide the fate of Recoletta in a rapidly rebuilding world.