The Bride of Glass Traffic

Genre

Gothic Sci-Fi

Biopunk

Dieselpunk

Industrial Fantasy

Mystery Thriller

Dark Romance

Short Description

In the towering industrial city of Aethelgard, the streets are alive.

Vast highways of living glass pulse with glowing blue veins, carrying the lifeblood that keeps the vertical metropolis from collapsing into the toxic abyss below. Nerina Wynthorne spends her nights repairing those fragile arteries, haunted by the death of her husband, Alistair, who vanished during a catastrophic highway rupture months earlier.

Then a new technician arrives.

Quiet, pale, and unnervingly strong, Evren carries a secret beneath his heavy coat — a cold mechanical ticking where a human heartbeat should be. Worse still, he possesses Alistair’s missing silver pocket watch, a relic believed lost forever in the depths beneath the city.

As mysterious system failures spread through Aethelgard’s living infrastructure, Nerina is pulled into a hidden conspiracy buried deep within the city’s mechanical veins — one involving forbidden experiments, erased identities, and a terrifying truth about the man beside her.

Because in Aethelgard, the city remembers everything.

And some hearts never truly stop ticking.