United Arcadia Flight 817

There are only six passengers on United Arcadia Flight 817. Such a low number of customers, not unusual for the struggling airline, explains the skeleton crew of four on the vessel. Two pilots, two stewardesses, it could be argued that it is overstaffed. With one of Arcadia Airline's employees seemingly unstable, how many of the limited names on the manifest are going to make it the entire trip?Constantinople. 1910. They hired Wendel to kill first, ask questions later. What a waste of a necromancer's talent. Besides, he's bored to death of being an assassin. This job might be his chance to go rogue..."Serpent's Tower" can be read as a standalone story; it takes place three years before Shadows of Asphodel, the first in a series of dieselpunk novels.