City of Desolation: The Balance of Love and Despair (Fate of the Stone Trilogy)

Solving the Secret of the Alchemist led Jake, Helen and her father Gerald to the discovery of the Stone of Sorrow and a spellbinding and shocking climax in the Underground Palace in Istanbul. Now blasted into beyond by those terrifying events, they each find themselves alone in a strange land with no clear memory of what has gone before.

As the fabric of reality begins to unravel and amazing events unfold, each must travel a lone path: yet all roads lead, it seems, to the City of Desolation, where the end-game is the cosmic struggle between Good and Evil.