Cameron O'Connell Libri

Do not go gentle into that ghouled night.Valentine IX, orphaned son of Britannia and state-sanctioned executioner, sits in an Anatolian cell accused of a murder he did not commit. While such accommodations are hardly unfamiliar to the man he has become, this time is different. This time, Valentine is charged with the slaughter of a Germani princess a mere week before she was to be wed. And so-armed with nothing but pen and parchment, and filled with a nagging sense of duty-it is up to Valentine to set the record straight.Thus begins the swan song of Valentine the Butcher, a tale of intrigue and betrayal set against the backdrop of an otherworldly metropolis on the fringes of a sprawling empire teeming with gravity-defying skyships, infernal monsters, systemic greed, and draconian double-agents. And it is here, amidst society's seedy underbelly, that Valentine first encounters the foul curse that started it all-a plague known only to myth, tied to a legend that may never die.In a world where naked flame is outlawed and monsters are common as cattle, the fate of humanity will hinge upon the ink-stained ramblings of an avowed arsonist. But you know what they say...Ignis aurum probat.Fire tests gold.