Disgraced (Sovereign)

Julian Vane returns to Grisaille after six months at sea and finds a capital city sealed against the world.The Rust-Lough plague is spreading through the lower wards. The ports are closed. The refineries run on half-yield. Yellow quarantine banners hang from balconies while the Iron Synod preaches fire, pain, and purity to a population already starving for answers.Then the Sovereign is murdered.Her child vanishes.And Julian is accused before the blood has dried.Stripped of rank and thrown into the Bastille of Rust, Julian is buried inside a prison designed to erase men by inches—cold stone, bad food, clockwork routines, and guards who know the system will kill slowly if they do nothing at all.But Julian saw what happened in the courtyard.The assassins did not move like men.They stepped through the air.They came with the smell of ozone and freezing pressure.Now the city above him is being rewritten by those who benefit from the lie. The Ministry tightens its grip. The Synod spreads through the streets. The plague advances behind locked gates.To survive, Julian must escape the prison, cross a city turning against itself, and find the stolen heir before Grisaille crowns the men who broke it.But something waits beneath the city’s machinery.And it has noticed him.Disgraced is an industrial dark fantasy thriller of political betrayal, prison escape, plague-ridden streets, and Void-touched horror—set in a city where every system still works, even when it should have stopped. Read more