When Talan enters the city of his dreams ... will the cost be too terrible to pay?
Talan is a homeless boy who lives by his speed and wits, but what he wants more than anything is to get into the mythical City of Glass. Always aglow and tantalizing, yet shut off from the world, it is a city of secrets and diamond-dusted dreams in Talan's unbridled imagination.
But once inside, he discovers that beauty can be deceiving. He will learn lessons of pain, hatred, love, and leadership before he can harness the power to free himself and the other lost children from their glittering prison.