A poet, professional protestor, and young heiress find themselves on the wrong side of local authorities and have to elude the powers that be.

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors...
 
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships...

They say it's not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back. On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat, a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble. Bernat's own secret assignment is to catalog her every...

"In the early years of the 20th century, a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement was hard at work in Southern California. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club aimed to revolutionize travel, literally lifting oppressed people up through the use of airships known as dirigibles. ELADATL is a breathtaking free fall into the long-buried history of that utopian era, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes. In a series of overlapping narratives...

"Seven centuries ago, the forces of order won the Illyriite War on the plains of Har'muth. Darmatus and Rabban Aurelian slew their elder brother, Sarcon, the despotic architect of the conflict, then sacrificed themselves to banish the cataclysmic vortex opened with his dying breath. The first advent of the Oblivion Well was thwarted. Even without their vanished gods, the seven races of Lozaria proved themselves capable of safeguarding their world....