Knowledge has a price, and everyone has secrets beneath the shattered moon. Barely surviving the trip out of Las Vegas, Stonewall and his companions finally catch a break and their breath at the Library, a rare bastion of knowledge and learning in this otherwise brutal reality. The halls of knowledge reveal much about the strange mutated world, but new information leads Stonewall to more questions. Before he can seek more answers, Stonewall, Diana, and Zew find themselves sea-bound in flight from a slave uprising.

The massive freshwater sea nestled in the middle of the North American continent seems their only escape, but unbeknownst to Stonewall, he’s heading into the gravest danger he’s faced yet: oracular prophecies of ill fortune, dynastic succession conflicts, and the greatest storm the Center Sea has ever seen.