The Earth wants to swallow us whole... Koli has been cast out from Mythen Rood. Behind the gates that shut him out lie his family and the safety of the known. Beyond, the embrace of the deadly forests awaits. But Koli heard a story, once -- a story about lost London, where the tech of old times was so plentiful it was just lying on the streets. If he can lead Ursula, Cup and Monono to this sparkling city, maybe he can save the rest of humanity, too. In a world where a journey of two miles is an odyssey, he's going to walk two hundred. But the city is not what it once was... and around him, Ingland is facing something it hasn't seen in three centuries: war.