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Mercury Ashes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 10 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the alchemical sprawl of Verrin, hope and rot mingle in equal measure. Mira Ashmore is a debt-ridden courier in this rusted metropolis of clockwork cathedrals and flooded vaults. To pay her mother's medical bills she joins a clandestine guild and undergoes an experimental graft that binds machine to heart.
Turned into the perfect collector, Mira stalks the city's forgotten corners, harvesting secrets and souls for her handlers. But as she hunts, an unforeseen side effect emerges: the memories of her victims seep into her own mind. A strongman's last thought, a beggar's prayer, a mother's lullaby - she bleeds memories that are not her own, and her identity begins to unravel.
Haunted by the voices she can't silence and desperate to reclaim her humanity, Mira defies the guild. Together with Garr - another collector bound by his own tragic past - and an enigmatic Bell-Ringer whose humming can disrupt machines, she sets out to topple the system that enslaves them. Their fight takes them from the polluted canals to the ossuary beneath the city, where a black mirror controls every augment and every heart.
Mercury Ashes is a dark, emotionally charged fantasy about choice, identity, and the brutal cost of freedom. Drawing on gothic and new-weird influences, it presents a grim world where empathy is treated as a malfunction and predation is routine. This novel will appeal to readers who enjoy visceral settings, morally compromised characters, and stories where the line between human and machine blurs.
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