She hasn't created anything in seven hundred and twelve days. Now the city is trying to eat her alive.
Nova Rhodes is a Stitcher — a scavenger who unmakes feral flesh-constructs buried in the rotting bones of the Sarcophagus City, a living metropolis built on stolen time. She harvests the causality threads that hold dying buildings together and sells them on the black market just to survive. She does not create. Not anymore. Not since the night everything burned.
But when a routine extraction goes wrong and a crimson filament — a forbidden Red Thread of pure consumption — takes root in her own hand, Nova's careful existence begins to unravel. The thread doesn't just wound her. It births something. And what it creates from scavenged metal and her dead sister's ghost is more dangerous than anything the city has ever grown.
Hunted by the Velocity-Scar, the city's immortal enforcement guild whose High Enforcer consumes stolen futures to sustain her own power, Nova must descend into the Ventricle Abyss — the beating heart beneath the city — to seize the Inversion Forge before it's used to lock the present in place forever.
To save the city, Nova must stop unmaking and start creating again. But the thing she's become may be too monstrous to hold a needle.
The Echo Forge is a standalone dark fantasy novel for adult listeners who love original magic systems, living cities, and protagonists who are as broken as the worlds they fight to repair.
