National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby returns with the middle
chapter in her epic alternate-history adventure--a journey that will
test Tess, Theo, and Jaime and change their lives forever.
It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo,
along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the
Morningstarrs' cipher further than anyone had in its century-and a-half
history--and destroyed their beloved home in the process.
But the Old York Cipher still isn't solved. The demolition of 354 W.
73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the
modern world, and if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want to discover what lies at
the end of the puzzle laid into the buildings of New York by its
brilliant, enigmatic architects, they will need to press on.
But doing so could prove even more dangerous than they know. It is clear
that the Morningstarr twins marshaled all the strange technology they
had spent their lives creating in the construction of the Cipher, and
that technology has its own plans for those who pursue it.
It's also clear that Tess, Theo, and Jaime are not the only ones on the
trail of the treasure. As enemies both known and unknown close in on
them from all sides and the very foundations of the city seem to crumble
around them, they will have to ask themselves how far they will go to
change the unchangeable--and whether the price of knowing the secrets of
the Morningstarrs is one they are willing to pay.
