In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth -century. England that centered on the building of a cathedral and on the men, women, and children´s whose lives it changed forever, Critics were overwhelmed -"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribute) - and readers ever since have hoped for a sequel. At last, it is here... Two centuries after the townspeople of Kings-bridge finished building their exquisite Gothic cathedral, four children slip into the forest and witness a killing -an event that will braid their lives together by ambition, love, greed, and revenge.