The Quays of Lac-Carge

Alexander has plunged from the height of society to its dregs.

Although he thought he’d already sacrificed everything to his queen’s insatiable greed, Ethium’s insatiable monarch still wants more.

As Alexander struggles to feed himself, all around him the city of Lac-Carge changes. Gaslamps now light the city streets and sandusk pellets propel motorboats and the fledgling ballooning industry. Yet, underneath this shiny new technology, magic still lives.

When Alexander uncovers a plot against the country’s young princess, he must enlist his old flame—now a daring aviatrix—and his boyhood schoolmate, a receded thaumaturge whose powers may not have receded as much as he claims.

Join Alexander, Chloe and Hugh as they battle walking dead, bloodthirsty beetles, the bitterest winter Lac-Carge has ever experienced, and everything the queen and her thaumaturgical allies can muster.