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The Wheel of Sun and Steel: Book 3 of the Arcana Syndicate
Paperback
Series: The Arcana Syndicate, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A frozen wasteland. A broken rail system. Ninety-six hours to save London.
In the sub-zero winter of 2049, six months after the Great Reset collapsed the digital grid, Britain is held together by the cold iron of the railways. But when a PMC strike team known as the Iron Skin assassinates a telegraph crew and locks the northern coal corridors, London's vital water-pumps face immediate, catastrophic freezing. If the pumps go cold, the basements freeze, and millions will die.
Senior Detective Logan Swire of the Metropolitan Audit is a man built of Cumbrian granite and physical resolve. Unable to recognize human faces due to developmental prosopagnosia, Swire reads the world purely through mass, vector, structural violence, and the physical truth of iron. Alongside him is Denise Hughes, a brilliant spatial strategist from Belfast whose precise mathematical mind maps danger through the steady, rhythmic click-clack of her nickel tally counter, until her kinetic risk-aphasia threatens to silence her when the pressure peaks.
Together, Swire and Denny take the throttle of The Iron Duke, an eighty-ton, boiler-plate armoured steam engine. Hauling four hundred tons of high-grade Welsh anthracite, they travel on a treacherous single-track line through snowbound gantries, hostile rail-barons, and ambushes by heavily armed mercenaries.
From the shattered signal boxes of Doncaster to a harrowing maritime raid across the ice-crusted Irish Sea, Swire and Denny must face the ghosts of their pasts, hold the line against neo-feudal warlords, and fight to keep the arteries of Britain open before the cold takes everything.
The Wheel of Sun and Steel is a high-octane industrial steampunk thriller where survival isn't dictated by lines of code, but written in coal, steam, and blood.
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