Steam World
Steam World is a new series of fantasy novels by Andy Coughlan.
Book 1 - At the World's Turn, coming soon!
Iátha, or Steam World to its inhabitants, is a world where dragon-like Báleo and humans have battled for aeons. The humans, through their cunning and engineering skill, thought they had won, reducing the Báleo to shadows of their former glory.
Teenager Aona Breid never expected his life to involve more than wrangling cats in a travelling circus. So, when Aona is gifted magical abilities by a Báleo, a new world of power and difficult choices opens up to him.
Swept into the backwater town of Rei Rhiol, Aona becomes embroiled in a sinister plot where children, including his little cousin Aimia, are being kidnapped. The main suspect is the town's strange and tyrannical ruler, known as the Bheidír, a powerful dark magician with plans to awaken a monstrous creature hibernating beneath the town.
With the lives of the missing children at stake, Aona must harness his magical abilities to thwart the Bheidír's plans. Alongside newfound allies — Tio, a quick-witted rogue, and Meg, a determined apprentice magician — Aona faces harrowing challenges that test his courage and resolve. He learns that practising magic exacts a heavy personal price.
It's up to Aona and his friends to vanquish the monster and the Bheidír before they become an unstoppable destructive force. Failure means not only the loss of many innocent lives, but also the potential destruction of everything Aona and his people hold dear.