To own the light, you must first bleed for the iron.
Cyprian Vane returned to the industrial rot of the Iron Peninsula to bury his father, not to inherit a crumbling empire of salt and secrets. But as the Aethelgard turbines hum across the Atlantic, the exiled scholar discovers his family's "clean energy" is fueled by a biological horror that is now rewriting his own DNA.
With the ruthless Southern Union blockading the coast and a populist uprising threatening to torch the shipyards, Cyprian must forge a desperate alliance with those who hate his name. Beneath the bioluminescent glow of the harbor, a century-old conspiracy awakens-one that demands a sovereign's sacrifice to keep the world from going dark.
When the city itself is alive and hungry, can a man save his people without becoming the monster who enslaved them?