The Iron Accord: Echoes

By Isaiah Lee

.He was never supposed to survive the collapse. Now he's the only one who remembers how the world broke.

In the rusted ruins of Ironhaven, where recursion fractures haunt the living and memory has become a battleground, Lucian Cross staggers through the aftermath of a war no one won. The Iron Accord is shattered. The Pulse towers are failing. And the digital infection known as Echo Syndrome is rewriting what it means to be human-one stolen thought at a time.

Lucian was meant to die with the rest of them. Instead, he carries the weight of the collapse in his spine-literally. Rebuilt with scrap metal and grief, he's more machine than man, limping through alleys slick with oil and ghosts. But when a forgotten message from his father resurfaces-buried in corrupted code-it sparks a truth long thought erased: recursion isn't a tool. It's a contagion.

Now, something is waking in the fractures. Something that remembers him.

As phantom memories twist the minds of survivors and recursion storms threaten the last threads of sanity, Lucian must navigate a city devouring itself from the inside out. Alongside the few allies he can still trust-Tasha, whose mechanical arms hide secrets of their own, and Corwin, an engineer stitching hope from ruin-he hunts the anchor points buried deep in Ironhaven's underbelly.

But the deeper they dig, the more impossible the truth becomes. The fractures aren't random. They're marching.

And they're marching toward something only Lucian can stop-

-even if it means becoming part of the machine that broke him.

Set in a dieselpunk world bleeding with memory and rust, The Iron Accord: Echoes is a cinematic descent into recursion horror, found family, and what it means to carry the weight of what we can't forget. Gritty, heart-wrenching, and pulse-charged-this is the beginning of a new kind of war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7SKG587
• ISBN13: 9798282815627
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"