The Ember Concordat

A commission for a dying client pulls cartographer Seraph Voss into the storm-lashed aether-docks of Calderis, where discharged spellcraft still stains the air and the Concordat's grip is fraying. What she finds there, a stranger bleeding in an alley, a child who shouldn't exist, a bargain she cannot remember making, sets in motion a chain of events that no ward-captain or masked knight can stop. Across the rain-slicked city, Mirror Knights march without memory, Shadow Creatures hunt those who stray too far from lantern light, and Drowned Cultists drag the faithful toward a rising tide. Kael Trench, Mira Thenn, and Pell Adair each hold a fractured piece of the truth. Ward-Captain Idris Mor and the enigmatic Elara Vey pursue Seraph for crimes she may not have committed, against an enemy she cannot yet see. The Reclaimer and its Horde circle closer with every map she redraws. As the Mirror Knight fractures and Oric Hallen offers a bargain darker than the first, Seraph must choose: surrender the child, betray her allies, or burn the Concordat down. Every line she inks is a doorway. Every doorway opened cannot be closed. And somewhere in the smoke, Vael is waiting to see which way the map finally turns.