Gearmage Unleashed: Blood & Aether

A breaching shell tears through the wall as Darek Vance welds a forbidden arcane core into his own arm. Through the smoke steps Lyra Cross—the cartel’s deadliest enforcer, sent to execute him. But when the cartel betrays them both, the hunted scrap mechanic and the ice-cold assassin are forced to fight back-to-back against an army of augmented killers. Darek turns broken junk into god-tier weapons, while Lyra’s bullets carve a path through the city—but every time she touches him, his defenses crack faster than his armor. Now the cartel wants Darek’s core, Lyra has been branded a traitor, and the ruthless magnate Valance Sterling will slaughter the slums to achieve mechanized godhood. Will Darek trust the woman who came to kill him—or destroy his own body and burn the entire city down to save her?