Manhattan Majors built his empire with iron, fire, and the bodies of the forgotten. Once a slum-born hustler turned ruthless industrialist, he now commands wealth, power—and a past soaked in blood. But guilt clings like soot, and when whispers of an ancient relic threaten to shift the balance of the steampunk world, Majors sees a path to redemption… or damnation.
 
To stop a legendary pirate-turned-slaver known only as The Black Baron, Majors must assemble a crew of outcasts just as dangerous as the enemy he faces. There's The Mouthpiece, a masked vigilante he saves from a noose in the Deep South, whose justice bleeds black and white. And Scarab, a genius wrapped in bronze exo-armor, haunted by his own ancestral war.
 
Together, they face a ship cursed by centuries of stolen souls, and a villain whose immortality is fueled by betrayal. But the deeper Majors sails into this haunted sea, the more he’s forced to confront his own monstrous legacy.
 
The artifact offers power. The Black Baron offers temptation. And buried beneath the waves lies a truth that could destroy them all.
 
To save the future, Majors may have to become the very shadow he’s spent a lifetime outrunning