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The Aether Core of Zephyria
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 18 2025
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A lost legend. A dangerous discovery. A race against the skies.
In the shattered skylands of Zephyria, scavenger pilot Lyra Gearheart makes her living picking through the bones of fallen airships. She flies where the guilds will not, threading her ship through stormlines and wreck fields for whatever scrap will keep her fuel paid and her hull patched.
Then she finds the story everyone else missed.
Buried inside a dead warship on the edge of a permanent storm, Lyra uncovers a forgotten relic: the Aether Core, a mythical engine that once powered the sky empire of the Aerithar. It hums with impossible energy. It should not exist. The moment she touches it, the Core wakes up, and the sky starts to notice.
Now every power in the clouds wants what she found.
Sky pirates descend from rusted dreadnoughts. Rogue guild captains move to seize her ship. The Arcane Council, who claim to regulate all Aether tech, marks her as a thief and a threat. Lyra is dragged from scavenger anonymity into a storm of old history, quiet assassins, and open aerial warfare.
Her only chance is a crew as unlikely as the relic itself:
A blade wielding sentinel who still follows a dead code
A silver tongued smuggler who can talk past checkpoints and into trouble
A wind speaking mystic who hears fractures in the stormlines before they rip open
Together they chase the truth behind the Aerithar, the vanished civilization that once wrote the rules of the sky, and why their empire collapsed in a single night.
As ancient machines stir, storm routes twist into traps, and whole skylands begin to drift out of position, Lyra faces a choice. Sell the Core and run, or risk everything to control a force that could reclaim Zephyria for its people or destroy the skylands completely.
The Aether Core of Zephyria is a pulse pounding steampunk fantasy for readers who love:
Aerial battles and high stakes dogfights above the clouds
Forgotten tech, grand orreries, and sky ruins with real rules
Scrappy found family crews fighting empires and councils
Perfect for fans of The Aeronaut's Windlass, Skyward, and Mortal Engines, this is the start of an adventure where the next dive, the next alliance, and the next stormline may decide who owns the sky.
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