Blood of the Archons

Sold to pay her father's debts. Born to save a dying world.

Ysabel Dartagne never wanted an adventure - she wanted her father to stop gambling and her city to stop crumbling into the wastes. When his debts finally catch up with him, she trades her freedom for his life, signing herself into slavery rather than watch him thrown to the bloodstorms.

At the auction block, a masked stranger buys her - not for her body, but for her blood. Captain Argent claims Ysabel's long-lost mother is alive, powerful, and desperate: she carries the silver flame, an ancient birthright that once let the Archons themselves ward the world against the Shroud. And with Calyptin Station's failing bounds moments from collapse, Ysabel may be the only thing standing between her home and the darkness beyond the walls.

But awakening a legacy locked away for years comes at a cost. Shaedr-ghůl swarm the streets, an occult brotherhood hunts her for her blood, and something far older and hungrier waits behind a door no one should ever open. Ysabel will have to master a power she doesn't understand, outrun men who worship darkness as scripture, and decide just how much of herself she's willing to burn to save a city that never protected her.

Blood of the Archons is a steampunk fantasy adventure set in the same shattered, Lovecraftian world as JM Guillen's Judicar's Oath, part of the sprawling multiverse of The Paean of Sundered Dreams.