J.B. Simmons

Darkness lurks beneath the Yellow Tower's golden fields. The leaders are missing. A boy king rules like a tyrant. And Cipher has been banished to work the land as the lowest of servants. But Cipher's memories remain, as do his scars....

After four towers and four scars, the final stage of Cipher's journey takes him into the depths of darkness. The Black Tower stabs like a spear into the sky. Its girls summon smoke. Its boys fight hard as iron. And within its walls lie the gravest dangers yet....

Cipher wakes up in the Blue Tower with no memories of his former life. He discovers he is not alone. Dozens of boys and girls must compete in a battle called the Scouring against four other towers - Red, Green, Yellow, and Black - each with its own rules and powers....

Elijah Goldsmith has nightmares he needs to ignore. Why would a rich kid from Manhattan dream three straight nights about a dragon and the destruction of St. Peter’s Basilica....

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.Cipher risks everything to reach the Red Tower. He searches for the person who was once the most important in the world to him. He has left a place where he had control, where his powers were the mind and the wind....

Elijah still has his doubts. As crazy as things have become, he figures there has to be a reasonable explanation. Except about the dragon. And maybe about Don. And definitely about the baby....

The Green Tower captures Cipher, ties him in vines, and hurls him into the wild. New dangers lurk in the forest, where the strong prey on the weak. Hunger looms. Tribes battle over every scrap to survive....

Nora has been chosen since birth to join the Mothers, who rule the Convent in wisdom and love by gentling the poor souls born as males. Jude leaves home with his fiddle and a dream to see a real live girl....

From his presence earth and sky fled away. They stood before the throne, and books were opened. It stopped making sense months ago. Now he seeks the baby, but Elijah has Naomi....

Nora and Jude bring change to the Convent. But when a leader from the Capital pays a visit, he threatens to break everything they have built and to reveal what has long been hidden underground.