The naïve and awkward headmaster is thrust into a world of treachery, drugs, hedonism, art, theft, airships, political feuding, soul-numbing violence, and above all secrets-secrets that he begins to see form a whole and a clue to the Tower's true nature. Thomas loses track of Marya before even making it inside the Tower's gargantuan walls, and from there he begins his desperate quest to find her within the Tower's heights. But the two villagers are unprepared for the "big city"-especially a city so capricious and indifferent as the Tower turns out to be. One such unwary is Thomas Senlin, a school headmaster from a small fishing village, whose rosy ideas of the Tower lead him to honeymoon there with his young bride, Marya. In his debut novel, Bancroft takes readers into a steampunk world revolving around the great attraction and mystery that is the Tower of Babel-a colossal structure rising up into the heavens that devours the unwary with intrigue and danger.
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