The Iron Gospel
In a landscape where the American Dream has curdled into a corrosive soot, Elara Vance is a woman running from a preordained life in a dying mill town—a future where....
In a landscape where the American Dream has curdled into a corrosive soot, Elara Vance is a woman running from a preordained life in a dying mill town—a future where she is merely currency for her father’s debts. On a rain-slicked highway choked by the ghosts of industry, she encounters Silas Thorne, a disgraced military commander bleeding out from a treason he didn't commit. Their union is not born of love, but of a desperate, cold-blooded necessity: her anonymity for his protection. As they navigate a world of decaying steel and high-society rot, they discover that the rust eating the country isn't just oxidation—it is a living, hungry magic.