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The road onwards leads around and away from the great city at the centre of the desert, its brutal ruler deposed, its gateways open to those formerly outcast.The exiles from the cliff must complete their crossing of the great empty wastes of the desert into uncharted regions almost lost to living memory. There are fragments of the great map that suggest that green life returns again at the very end of the rocky plain, and that the earth fractures and tilts upwards to shape the solitary mythical fire mountain at the centre of creation – the place that calls even the unswerving wind to itself.The red cave within the mountain holds the promise of final answers, a redressing of the injustices of the past, and a conclusion to the years of searching.

Many years after a catastrophic landslide has swept a whole civilization away, a family of survivors are living as exiles among the shepherds of the grassland, their whole world now only fragile memories of the things that were.A chance encounter rekindles hope that others may have come alive through the cataclysm and so begins a journey far beyond the sanctuary of the tribe to find answers to old questions.Travelling across the roof of the world, from the rolling hills to the barren wastes of a rocky desert, their search will take them through the tents of the merchants and alongside the towering striders that cross the scorched sand in slow, steady caravans, spotter kites strung from their backs and map makers measuring the land as they pass.Somewhere beyond the endless waste is a city, and the rumour of others like them that passed that way before, heading deeper into the unknown interior of the uncharted world.

Betrayed by his own family during his coming-of-age trial, Aaron is cast out of his village and into the civilization of the city. In a world threatened with imminent destruction and ripped apart by internal politics, he must find his way back home by seeking out the only person able to help him, an exile banished deep within a labyrinth of half-forgotten caverns.Set in the world of ‘the cliff’, where people have adapted to living permanently upon the vertical rock of the limitless cliff face, Aaron’s world is one of constantly climbing and descending, cleaving to the cold stone and wondering if today might be the unlucky day of your final fall into the void.Aaron’s destiny is to fall but to rise again and carry the hopes of his whole world with him.

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