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By Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher, the number one big apple instances bestselling writer of The Dresden documents and the Codex Alera novels, evokes a brand new sequence set in a good looking international of noble households, steam-powered expertise, and magic-wielding warriors...

Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded floor of the realm. inside their halls, aristocratic homes have governed for generations, constructing medical marvels, fostering exchange alliances, and construction fleets of airships to maintain the peace.

Captain Grimm instructions the service provider send, Predator. Fiercely unswerving to Spire Albion, he has taken their part within the chilly struggle with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy's delivery traces by way of attacking their shipment vessels. but if the Predator is seriously broken in wrestle, leaving captain and team grounded, Grimm is obtainable a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion—to sign up for a group of brokers on a necessary undertaking in alternate for totally restoring Predator to its battling glory.

And whilst Grimm undertakes this risky job, he'll research that the clash among the Spires is basically a premonition of items to return. Humanity's old enemy, silent for greater than 10000 years, has all started to stir once again. And dying will stick to in its wake...

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