Chick Aier is a brilliant but indulgent student who graduated from Piers's best university with the finest academic credentials. Yet he chose to become a tour guide, because it gave him the chance to meet women from all kinds of countries. Then one day, he met a father and daughter who spoke a lost language the father had taught them. An incident at a party also drew Aier into an extraordinary world...
Do angels really exist? Does the sequence of angels lead to godhood? And why, aside from the Seven Great Gods, are there no other gods in the world?
He gave up his life as a debauched playboy, lost in a world of pleasure, while his parents' sudden disappearance became his greatest mystery. Were they Ascendants too?
