Seventeen-year-old Iona buries her mother at dusk. Before midnight, a ruthless captain descends from the sky and takes her newborn brother.
By morning, Iona has stolen an airship. Alone, she follows the ship into a dieselpunk world she has only known from the coast: hidden cities in the caves, orbital docks above the false stars, and secrets that stretch back further than the seven years since her father disappeared.
The captain is not what she seems. The boy who built the airship is not what he seems. And the world Iona is chasing her brother into will change what she thought was possible.
A story of chosen family, quiet cruelty, and a girl who was raised to be small becoming, over one long day, something else entirely.
