Bekka Trevelyan is an arcanist, and the first woman to be made a Gentleman Scholar of Arcany at the University of Kabakak.  Her graduate work was in refining a device to measure the potency of the winds of magic.  Over her Yule holidays from teaching, she travels east on a field trip to test her theory about the Winds in the true Wyld.

Tam Warden was a war hero, and then a sort of government enforcer.  He gave up rank and fame to marry across class lines. But government isn’t done with him yet.

Essa Bateman is a mercenary spy, a hard woman with no attachments and very few ethics. Few, it turns out, is more than ‘none.’

In a world where gunpowder is manufactured from the souls of executed criminals, and the ultra-rich seek immortality at any price, where children labour in factories and the desperate poor turn to vampirism, where slavery is rampant and gangs rule the streets…

A few people are about to be heroes. They just don’t know it yet.

But maybe, just maybe, the Revolution is coming.