In 1989, Ken Follet astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel, set in twelfth-century England, that centered on the children whose lives it changed forever. Critics were overwhelmed- "it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)- and readers ever since have hoped for a sequel. At last, it is here...

Two centuries after the townspeople of Kingsbridge 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.