A young boy named Collin is sent to a private boarding school in Scotland. However, when his school is bombed during the Great War, he and his friend Holly fall into a world unlike anything they have ever seen, ranging from desolate wastelands to thriving, steam-punk metropolises. They meet lavish princes, deposed knights, and murderous revolutionaries, all as they learn that they must fight to survive. This land is called Cǽrvelle, and this is his story.

Ilya Systov needed the papers. So did Skylar Merideth. Two people on the opposite sides of the Cold War. * He was fire, she was water. He was Russian, she was British. But perhaps, amidst the chaos of deception, they are both missing who the real enemy truly is.