In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, in the Christian calendar year 725 the caliphate of Hisham ibn Abd-al-Malik stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River. Controlling the far flung caliphate is helped by the courier network that carries official messages and reports back and forth. You are members of a secret group within the courier network, and your team of agents has been summoned back to the capital Damascus, where your spy chief suspects a merchant of smuggling something strange into the city. But what if the merchant does not work alone? What if the conspiracy goes deep? The City of Jasmine is one of the oldest cities in the world, ruled through the ages by Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans. What if something unnatural lurks beneath its aged stone walls? Only God knows all things.