The Argosy of Burnished Gold

A rust-crowned apprentice must claim his destiny before the tides claim the world. For fifteen years, Argo Steel has stood in the shadow of his father Old Brennan's brick wall, counting hammer strikes and waiting for the day his name echoes through the journeymen guild. That day never comes, instead, an ancient relic surfaces from the harbor fog, and Argo is pulled into a voyage measured in lost cities and buried gold. Teaming with the cryptic Quill the Alchemist, the fierce Sera Blacktide, and guided by the ghost of Maera Aurum through a realm haunted by the Aurum Echoes, Argo must outpace the Porcelain Assassin and the scheming Lysander Vane, whose vendetta runs deeper than Argo knows. From the brine-soaked alleys of Mirehaven to the drowned throne of the Mer-Emperor, the stakes rise with every dive. The Bronze Golem stirs. Vellichor opens its maw. And the truth about Argo's mother, the legend of Thessaly Aurum, threatens to unmake everything the guild was built upon. The Argosy of Burnished Gold will open only once, and whoever stands aboard when it does will choose whether the empire rises, or remains lost beneath the waves forever.