Iron Leviathan: Dredge the Sun

With his bloody blade pressed flush against my throat, the condemned outlaw captain pinned me to the vibrating iron hull and made his lethal demand: guide his warship into the jaws of the abyss, or be thrown to the monsters circling below. Eternal night swallowed the world, leaving humanity clinging to steam-powered ironclads burning leviathan blood. Blinded and branded a heretic by the Church, I am the only navigator alive who can hear the dying heartbeat of the sunken sun. Captain Cassian Vance is a ruthless death-row butcher with a stolen warship, hunting the light that could either save mankind or burn our souls to ash. Trapped in the suffocating belly of the iron leviathan, surrounded by crushing ocean depths and corporate dreadnoughts, every fathom dragged downward forces us closer together. He thinks he owns my breath, but in the pitch-black abyss, my blinded eyes are the only weapon keeping his cold heart beating. As ancient horrors awaken in the deep trench, will we dredge the dead sun—or drown in the darkness together?