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In the iron-choked, soot-stained city of Oakhaven, gold is not a symbol of wealth — it is a sentence of slow erasure. The Gold Rot spreads through the veins of the poor like hungry black vines, a curse born from the very currency that built the Empire. While the elite thrive behind silver-glass towers, the forgotten bleed in the slums below, harvested as living batteries to keep the Citadel’s lights burning. In this world of industrial cruelty and forbidden science, one girl carries a secret that could either save Oakhaven or reduce it to ash.
Iris is the daughter of Bram, a disgraced master alchemist living in exile. Her blood runs emerald, a rare, living alchemy that can reverse the Gold Rot, transmute iron, and disrupt the very frequency on which the Empire’s power depends. She is not just a healer. She is a biological anomaly. A terminal event. And the Empire has been hunting her for years.
When the Iron Guard drags her father into the depths of the Citadel to resurrect a dead god, an ancient machine that requires a human soul as its anchor, Iris descends into Oakhaven’s dangerous underworld armed with nothing but a silver needle and a burning determination to bring him home. Guided by a scavenger whose loyalty has a price, hunted by the cold and calculating Commander Reich, and targeted by the fanatical Mother Vesper, Iris must navigate a labyrinth of betrayal, forbidden archives, and cathedral chambers filled with harvested souls.
But with every drop of blood she spills, she pays a devastating cost, her own humanity slowly transmuting to silver.
The Alchemist’s Daughter is a dark, atmospheric steampunk fantasy that fuses industrial horror with breathtaking world-building, exploring the weight of sacrifice, the corruption of power, and what it truly means to burn the world down in order to set it free.
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