Set in two very different worlds, Tree of Shadow follows the story of Galen, who lives in a community infused with love and spirituality, and Mark, who inhabits a fallen world, full of chaos and evil. A momentary collusion of worlds and a chance meeting between the two, as boys, sets in motion a series of unforeseen events, in which the protagonists travel to places beyond their imagination, fuelled by a desperate need to meet again as grown men. This is a quest; to understand the limits of pursuing knowledge, to learn to live in harmony, and to pay the price for succumbing to temptation...