About this ebook
Mara Voss has always loved the smell of hot oil and cold iron. As a wreckwright's apprentice in Gravehollow — a small, hunted town crawling across the Salt Wastes on six groaning tracks — she's spent her whole life keeping her town's engines alive one step ahead of the great predator cities that stalk the horizon. Then a routine salvage run uncovers something no one in Gravehollow was ever meant to find: a sealed, two-centuries-old vault, and the ancient machine intelligence sleeping inside it.
What Mara wakes holds enough power to save her town forever. It also holds enough power to turn Gravehollow into exactly the kind of monster it's spent generations running from — and someone on her own town's council is already planning to sell it to the highest, hungriest bidder.
With her mentor's life on the line, a defector from the enemy city as her only ally, and nothing but the truth to bargain with, Mara has one desperate night to decide who deserves to hold the last honest power left in a world built on conquest.
A sweeping, decades-spanning saga of survival, betrayal, and the slow, hard work of choosing trust over doctrine, The Wreckwright's Daughter is a prequel-style adventure for fans of steampunk survival epics, world-eating mobile cities, and stories where the bravest choice is also the hardest one.
Perfect for readers who love:
Found technology and ancient AI archives
Post-apocalyptic societies built on conquest — and the rebels who imagine something better
Steampunk traction cities and salvage-punk engineering
Coming-of-age heroines who grow into decades-spanning legends
Multigenerational sagas with real moral weight
