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Gaslight: Book One of the Gaslight Trilogy
Paperback
Series: The Gaslight Trilogy, Book 1
FantasyScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a city fueled by gas, obedience is survival, curiosity is forbidden, and truth is the most dangerous flame.
Valor, 73rd of his name, is a Worker in a vast industrial city ruled by the Council, a regime that controls every breath, every movement, and every thought through fear, surveillance, and public correction. His life is meant to be simple: maintain the gas lamps, obey orders, keep his head down, and never question the machinery that keeps the City alive.
But beneath the streets, hidden below rusted factories and forgotten tunnels, Valor discovers something the Council tried to erase: old technology, buried knowledge, and the remains of a world that existed before control became law.
What begins as curiosity soon becomes obsession. As Valor experiments with forbidden machines and begins to understand the truth behind the City's power, he finds himself drawn deeper into a dangerous secret that could change everything. The Council watches. The Enforcers close in. And Unison, the cold and calculating voice of compliance, will do anything to correct those who step beyond their assigned place.
With echoes of dystopian science fiction, steampunk rebellion, dark industrial fantasy, and coming-of-age resistance, Gaslight is the first book in a gripping trilogy about control, identity, forbidden knowledge, and the cost of discovering that the world is larger than the walls built around you.
For readers who enjoy atmospheric dystopian worlds, oppressive regimes, underground secrets, forbidden technology, rebellion against authoritarian control, and character-driven science fiction with a dark cinematic edge.
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