Atefeh on her way to Isfahan.

Baldwin’s eighteenth birthday brings to their lives the silver mask, and the crushing awareness that there is nothing Atefeh can do for him within the constraints of Jerusalem.

From Persia, there are whispers of a college for physicians in Isfahan. Miracles are performed there. So armed with only a letter of recommendation from her father’s physicians, dressed in drag and moving under her late mother’s name, Atefeh flees to Isfahan to discover its secrets.

Part of the From Eden series.