Stranded alone in a world he was only just beginning to understand, and fleeing from a past he longs to forget, Jonas joins the crew of the merchant vessel The Northern Splendour on a journey that will bring him into unimaginable perils but also into the path of new friends and allies. This is the sequel to The Mechanician's Apprentice.

Smuggled from an orphanage under the cover of darkness, a young boy is thrown into a world of engineering and intrigue where airships soar in the skies and strange mechanical men lurk in the shadows. Paying homage to likes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Philip Pullman, this is steampunk for people that don't do steampunk.