The Many-Headed Tempest

Violet light split the harbor sky, and cartographer Brennan Caldermoor knew the world was about to change forever. The tear hung above the anchorage, a wound in reality spilling forth serpents made of cascading water. As the Bronze-Masked Pursuers sweep through the city hunting those who can perceive the coming storm, Brennan finds himself entangled with the enigmatic Saelind Earthrot, a woman whose grandmother whispers of an ancient hydra bound in the deep. Together with City Watch Captain Voren, the rogue alchemist Quill Marrowthatch, and Thessa Brightmoor, Brennan must decode a forbidden map that charts the path of the legendary Storm-Serpent. But every step toward the truth pulls him deeper into a web of secrets, including the spectral visitation of Carrick's ghost, the cryptic guidance of Brother Hask, and the unsettling revelation that Brennan's own mother, a being of living construct, still draws breath somewhere in the city. When Malachai Severn unleashes the Storm-Serpents to drown the coastline, Brennan faces an impossible choice: sever the storm at the cost of his mother's awakening essence, or let the hydra rise and remake the world in its many-headed image.