In the oldest inhabited place on earth atop a mountain known as the Citadel a Vatican-like city-state towers above the city of Ruin in modern-day Turkey. Now thanks to media coverage of a climbers assent the eyes of the whole world are on a group that has prized its secrets above all things. For the Sancti—the monks living inside the Citadel—this could mean the end of everything they have built and protected for millennia . . . and they will stop at nothing to keep what is theirs. For American reporter Liv Adamsen driven by the memory of a tragic loss an earth-shaking discovery awaits that will change everything . . .