Aqueron, the Dark Plague
The world's breaking, broken and broken, under a sky without dawn. From the choked heart of a Victorian England wounded by despair, come the figure of Walter Stewart, a young scholar who dreamed about conquering science... and has ended up challenges to the abyss. The Dark Plague, an atoning with no face or clemency, has resurrected the dead with golden eyes and has given them an unsatiety hunger. And as the nations fall, Walter is forced to take command of the most bold ship that has been passing through the sky: the HMS Demeter, last flying bastion in search of a secret hidden beyond the clouds, beyond time... beyond reason. To the north, where the snow will never melt, Colonel William Macfair challenges the impossible. His steel's barely enough to face what lies in the dark. But his fight isn't alone: with him, Jonah Fox, a hunter with no homeland and no rest, his scars speak of revenge and his past threat of breaking into pieces as soon as the future of mankind begins to burn. And while the plague purifies the foundations of the Empire, at the forgotten margins of the world, the drums of war last resound. But Aqueron isn't just an arms war. It's a judgment of souls. And in the shadow of every ruin, between ashes and lightning, an impossible love grows as frail as a light in the middle of the fence. Because even in the darkest corners of despair, a spark can light up... if only to die. No maps for this ride. No salvation without sacrifice. And perhaps, just perhaps, Walter Stewart has something more to his hands than the fate of the living. Maybe there's still a key to closing the Brecha... or to completely opening it up. The darkness advances. Death realizes. And the end has already begun.
