An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating,deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldierwho once again takes up the weapons heΓÇÖs forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken princewho steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thiefwho escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact – one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. On the runhunted by enemies old and newthey must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strangebeautifuland deadly waysand uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation. But with each passing momentdoom draws closer. WHO WILL CLAIM THE STARLESS CROWN?