The thrilling conclusion to two-time National Book Award finalist
Laura Ruby's epic adventure through the streets of an alternate New York
City.
It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and
Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to
survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the
Morningstarr cipher--and, in the process, made a shocking discovery
about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma.
Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea what the photo
they found in Greenwood Cemetery means, but Jaime is convinced that they
do, and that they've been keeping their own secrets from him. As the
city continues to break around them, suddenly solving the greatest
mystery of the modern world seems less important than saving their own
friendship.
The stakes of completing the cipher, however, have never been higher.
Darnell Slant, real estate developer and owner of all the Morningstarr
buildings, knows that they hold one last secret: a power that even the
Morningstarrs themselves never revealed. The world has rested on a
precarious balance of power for generations; now Slant and his shadowy
business partners aim to unbalance it.
It's up to Tess, Theo, and Jaime to uncover the Morningstarrs' final
mystery in a desperate attempt to set things right. The world--theirs,
and possibly others--depends on it.