Some think the City of Jade Spires is a utopia. It very much isn’t.
Holly Drake is in prison for defending herself from a murderer. That’s the kind of corruption thriving in the city where evidence is destroyed and the innocent go to jail.
But...
While Verity Fitzroy loses herself in magical mechanizations and fantastical science of London, she harbours secrets of the death of her parents, of a mystery she can't leave alone, and of her power over machinery that both excites and terrifies...
After her brush with the Silver Pharaoh, Verity Fitzroy and the children of the Ministry Seven retreat to London to recover, but adventure always seems to have a way of finding them.
With her Uncle Octavius still somewhere out there, Verity is sure...
Plagued by misfortune all of his life, Chance, a frustrated alchemist living in the dregs of a luckless city, struggles just to maintain his laboratory. Alchemy is a dying craft, replaced by the obsession of the forward-thinking meritocracy for...
After a decade of silence the Battle Engines march once again...
The ancient world has given way to chimneys billowing the smoke of industry into the sky of Tarn. With industry comes technology no one a hundred years prior could have dreamed of....