TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Introduction

Prologue: Before the Valley

Part One: The Decree

Chapter One: The Hall of Fire

Chapter Two: The Weight of the Word

Chapter Three: The Road Begins

Chapter Four: The First Shadow

Chapter Five: The Seer of the Valley

Chapter Six: Enock's Warning

Chapter Seven: The Watchers Revealed

Chapter Eight: The Shades in the Low Places

Chapter Nine: The Gathering Dark

Chapter Ten: The Council of the Valley

Part Two: The Road to the Mountain

Chapter Eleven: The Exile's Return

Chapter Twelve: The Cost of Carrying

Chapter Thirteen: The Old Warrior

Chapter Fourteen: Signs in the Earth

Chapter Fifteen: The Children Who Watched

Chapter Sixteen: The High Places

Chapter Seventeen: Voices in the Night

Chapter Eighteen: The Broken Gate

Chapter Nineteen: The Last Alliance

Chapter Twenty: Before the Storm

Part Three: The Summit

Chapter Twenty-One: The Long Night Begins

Chapter Twenty-Two: The First Word

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Second and Third Words

Chapter Twenty-Four: The Fourth and Fifth Words

Chapter Twenty-Five: The Sixth Word

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Battle Below

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Watchers Strike

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Faithful Stand

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Seventh Word

Chapter Thirty: The Sky Opens

Part Four: The Descent and After

Chapter Thirty-One: The Wanderers Who Returned

Chapter Thirty-Two: The Valley Swept Clean

Chapter Thirty-Three: The Descent

Chapter Thirty-Four: The Book of Names

Chapter Thirty-Five: What the Children Were Told

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Accounting

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Last Vision

Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Second Coming

Epilogue: After the Last Word

Author's Note

Acknowledgments