Aton Askins finds things and people that don't want to be found, but is barely making a living. Now if he takes a new mission for a mysterious, wealthy patron, to find lost artifacts of the gods who left Oiwa centuries ago, he could make a life for himself and his sick daughter.Lady Belwyn lost much in the Port Ambs bombing seven years ago - her husband, her right leg, and her confidence. Fitted with a new mechanical leg and taking her first steps back into society, she begins to ask questions about Port Ambs and why the perpetrators have never been caught - questions others don't want to be answered.While the Unari Empire begins to pull itself apart, two people will search for their own truths and learn things about their world that will change their lives forever.

The world is falling apart around Aton Askins. His childhood friend is rotting in a cell for a crime she didn't commit. There are soldiers in the streets of Cye and an army of angry widows waiting outside the city. His mystery employer might be using him to gather artifacts of the ancient gods to build some kind of weapon. Now he's been given one last job, one last artifact to find, supposedly on a mythical floating island halfway around the world. He needs to stay in Cye to help his friend, but he needs to finish his work so he has the money to take his family away from the city. Most of all, he needs to keep those he loves safe from what's coming. The Widows Army is restless and may be slipping away from Belwyn of Annanais. Stuck outside of Cye, unsure of what to do next, she needs to do something, anything, to make sure the promise she made to these women to find answers about their loved ones doesn't go unmet. When an unlikely ally presents himself, she uses...

Ben Potter is back in West Virginia, this time to stay. He's returned for a fresh start, to try and rebuild his reputation, his career, and his life, all the while staying active in the life of his daughter an ocean away. But the content on Ben's new website, Paranormal Appalachia, isn't exactly going viral. Grace Crowe's legal practice isn't doing much better, lurching from case to case, representing clients for too little money and too little appreciation. Then a woman walks through her door that changes everything - the second wife of Sid Grimaldi. Sid has been charged with burning down his own home decades ago with his newborn triplet daughters inside. Sid's murder case is the talk of northern West Virginia and Grace can't afford not to take it. Sid doesn't just say that he's innocent of setting that fire, but that he knows his girls are still alive. Ben agrees to investigate and when strange characters in black suits start showing up it looks...

A gilded cage is still a cage. Banished from the capital to her home in Annanais, Lady Belwyn chafes under the restrictions of her handler, who controls what she reads and who she sees. She can't continue to search for the truth of the Port Ambs bombing if she can't leave her makeshift prison. Now she's getting letters from other women around the Empire, other widows, looking for answers, too. Could their shared pain be a way out? A way to help not only her, but those like her, to find answers? Aton Askins is making the most of his new employer's largesse, buying a new home and trying to build the family he's been missing since Port Ambs. Now he's been tasked with finding the Circle of Rend, another ancient artifact of the departed gods. That will require him to sign on to an expedition in the Southern Islands led by a brutal explorer. He has to do it to maintain his comfortable new life, but what will be the cost? Does he really know what his employer is up...

Ben Potter's life is a shambles. As a journalist he's hit rock bottom, writing dreck about monsters and ghouls to make ends meet after a big story blew up in his face. As a son he's a disappointment, unwilling to follow his father, grandfather, and great grandfather into the family business. As a father, he's mostly just not there.Now a new assignment could change all that. All he has to do is go from London to the hills of West Virginia to investigate the strangest of stories his great grandfather told. Did a sleazy politician really raise the dead to try and win an election? And if he did, what happened to the zombies? Could they still exist? Ben needs to find out, to solve the mystery and find a way to get his life back on track.But finding the answer only presents Ben with a whole new batch of problems. Does he use what he learns to put his life back on track? Or will he be compelled to do the right thing, even if it leaves his life a mess?The hardest part of a...