His father dead, his family gone, and a sprawling world ahead he's only ever read of, Tyn finds himself under the protection of a mysterious, self-proclaimed guardian angel. With numerous parties vying for his loyalty, he has to decide for himself who to trust before the Bell is finally rung. Who will be the one for whom the bell tolls? The child who survives, or the shadow who strives?

Cool stone beneath, otherworldly light above, and a steel door set into the space between them. The cavern is his home as much as his prison, and it is all that he knows of the world. There is nothing else. That is, except for the single name on his mind, "Cyrus". The first part of a series that doesn't yet exist.

The beginning of it all