Not long before an old and magical place found a voice of stone and steel to add to the choral symphony of the universe, seven separate lives were lived in seven different corners of the world. Each of them would seek a different life than the one they were living and, in the way of things that were meant to be, all would, in time, find themselves in the place that waited for them...

Ere Ever the City Sang is the story of those separate lives—Brandywine Lloyd, Andrew MacKinnon, Tom Beverley, Gareth Davies, Alain Devreaux, Diana Morrison and Nicholas Wyndham—and how they came together as les Boulevardiers in the City...