Beneath a drowned city lies the one place in the world that never burned.

Four months after the events of The Child Beneath the City, Rumi Knox is still a scavenger, still broke, and still raising a lion cub the whole hemisphere is hunting. When the one person who could explain him is taken by an organization that doesn't burn history but keeps it, the job stops being a rescue and becomes a negotiation — with people who are quiet, courteous, and right about almost everything.

They call it the collection. They have never once lost an accession. And the price they ask isn't money.

The complete second volume: twelve illustrated chapters.