Garden of Serpents

The barrier has kept the man-eating mites out of the valley for 200 years and continues to protect what is left of humanity. In exchange for maintaining this barrier, the sorcerer from the mountain asks for only one thing-children. With yet another child sacrificed to fates unknown, some question the motives and the authority of the ageless man who hides away in his tower. Nora Vanderwilde's curiosity of the sorcerer and the world beyond the walls lies dormant until a mute boy tumbles into the valley, having fled a terrible, fire-spitting monster. Believing until now that no human could survive outside the valley, Nora agrees to hide the boy, and their search for answers begins. The questions Nora has held in her heart all her life are suddenly dwarfed by greater truths. Mites aren't the only threat outside the barrier, and with a hole in the shield, even the sorcerer fears what may have crawled in.