In a city that erases its traitors, one man just became unforgettable.
In the soot-stained city of Brassmoor, the Chancellor's Arcane Engine doesn't just exile dissenters-it erases them. To be Silenced is to vanish from memory, mirror, and even magical detection. Forgotten by all. Forgotten by design.
For five long years, former artificer Alastair Finch has been one of them-unseen, unspoken, and presumed dead. Until a clever street thief catches his eye in the market... and recognizes him.
She's not just any thief. She's Micah-his daughter. Supposedly executed after his betrayal.
Their reunion sparks a dangerous anomaly: those who look at them begin to remember. And in a city ruled by forced amnesia, remembrance is rebellion.
With only three days before the Oligarchy unleashes its final Cleansing, Alastair and Micah must weaponize forbidden magic and salvaged automata to destroy the very Engine that unmade them. But standing in their way is Garrett Vale-a relentless Enforcer who was once Alastair's closest friend.
And as memory returns, so do the ghosts of what they lost.
A vanished man. A daughter long thought dead. And a magic that refuses to be forgotten.
In Brassmoor, remembering might be the most dangerous act of all.