For centuries, he has survived by staying unnoticed.
Living quietly in the margins of history, Ticker moves through cities as a scholar, a watcher, a man content to let the world pass him by. He has seen wars burn, knowledge vanish, and generations rise and fall, all while remaining unchanged himself. Survival, restraint, and silence have been his only rules.
Then, following a devastating library fire in 15th Century Florence, he is forced to confront the possibility that his long life is not an accident, and that he may not be as alone as he has always believed...