The Sin in the Steel

Ryan Van Loan's The Sin in the Steel is a sparkling debut fantasy set in a diverse world, featuring dead gods, a pirate queen, shapeshifting mages, and a Sherlockian teenager determined to upend her society.Heroes for hire. If you can pay. Buc: Brilliant street-ratHer mind leaps from clues to conclusions in the blink of an eye. Eld:Ex-soldierBuc's partner-in-crime. No. Not in crime—in crime-solving.They've been hired for their biggest job yet—one that will set them up for a life of ease.If they survive.Buc and Eld are the first private detectives in a world where pirates roam the seas, mages speak to each other across oceans, mechanical devices change the tide of battle, and earthly wealth is concentrated in the hands of a powerful few. It's been weeks since ships last returned to the magnificent city of Servenza with bounty from the Shattered Coast. Disaster threatens not just the...