The Tower of Babel (Vaulan Cycle, Book 2) (Volume 1)

The Tower of Babel is part political thriller, part apocrypha, and part Little Shop of Horrors—though it ain’t funny at all. An artist discovers strange abilities in himself when under the influence of a mysterious plant. A group of anarcho-primitivists seeks to subvert the construction of a gigantic skyscraper called The Tower of Babel. These two paths climb towards unstoppable collision. Austin Feckidee had plenty of reason to run from his past. Three years ago, he and an anarchist secret society failed utterly in an attempt to destroy a titanic skyscraper called the Tower of Babel. But he’s put all that behind him. Really, he has. Still, establishing himself as a sculptor would be a hell of a lot easier if he hadn’t lost his groove—and if he hadn’t gotten a letter from Stella, his old never-quite-flame and the ringleader of the anarchist operation. Stella dares to ask him to come back and try it all again. Her logic is simple: an otherworldly plant once thought capable of destroying steel has finally flowered after twenty years of dormancy in her greenhouse. She wants to find out why. The answer may destroy Austin—or it may just show him who he really is.