A little country surrounded by the Wall everyone knows is insurmountable. But the boy who refuses to be king vows to pass over it. Young as he is, Adam understands that being king would shackle him more tightly than being the lowest slave. He watches birds and clouds pass by overhead as if this land surrounded by an impassable Wall is less than nothing. What is out there -- the destroying chaos they warn him about, or mysteries beyond his imagination? He runs away from kingship, and, though political potentates seek him out, he seeks the imposing shadowy presence of that final brambled cliff of masonry. This is the first volume in the monumental series of seven novels, "The Seven Last Days."