From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage, comes a brand-new epic fantasy Glass Immortals series, where magic is a finite resource - and it's running out.
Godglass - ubiquitous and essential - is a common sorcerous bauble created by skilled engineers and used throughout the world to enhance the native skills of the bearer. Forgeglass for the strength of soldiers and teamsters, witglass for the minds of politicians and strategists, dazeglass for the lost, cureglass for the wounded, museglass for the artist. The uses of Godglass are infinite, and its production turns the wheels of the modern world.
Demir Grappo was once a child prodigy, governing provinces and leading armies before a military disaster shattered his mind. He fled his responsibilities and has lived incognito ever since, grifting, charming, and moving from place to place until an old friend tracks him down to inform him that everything has changed. Demir's mother, a famous politician, has been murdered. The crime shocked the country and has pushed the mighty Ossan Empire into a war that few people want.
Demir must return to the capital and take his place as head of his tiny guild-family where he quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems - not the murder, not his past, and certainly not the sorcerous godglass production at the heart of the Empire. For Demir's mother had a secret: She knew that the raw materials for godglass were running out, and when the inevitable finally happens, modern civilization will collapse.
Haunted by his failures, Demir gathers allies to his side to help him in the coming struggle: Kizzie Vorcien, a bastard enforcer with conflicted loyalties, Idrian Sepulki, a famous soldier beset by madness, and Thessa Foleer, a sorcerous engineer carrying the key to saving common sorcery. While the greater guild-families jostle for wealth and power, threatening to grind the Grappo to dust, Demir and his companions struggle against an invisible enemy to save the Empire and the world.
