Publisher's Synopsis
In a world abandoned by the seas and ravaged by acid storms, humanity's last hope drifts on the wind. Sky-faring city-states scrape the heavens, harvesting scraps of old-world technology from the storm-tossed ruins below. But when the salvager crew of the Zephyrion uncovers the Celestfall Codex-a crystalline archive of forbidden blueprints and a dormant AI named KEL-R13-they unleash a power that could rewrite reality... or destroy it all.
Captain Ysara Vynn is a hardened rogue, betrayed by her own fleet and haunted by the cost of survival. Driven by pragmatism and haunted by loss, she's learned that second chances are earned in blood. When the Codex's activation splinters her world, Ysara must decide whether to cling to what remains or risk everything for a vision of renewal.
Asrik Halden, genius codebreaker and engine-obsessed dreamer, sees in the Codex the promise of resurrecting lost eco-technologies and stabilizing the skies. But every line of ancient code he unlocks threatens to consume his mind and tear their ship apart. Can he master the Codex before it masters him?
Liraen Morthan, ex-Consortium enforcer, carries the weight of atrocities she once carried out in the name of order. Now she fights for redemption-cutting down the very Skyguard she once led. As the consortium's wrath descends, Liraen must confront her past or doom the only family she has left.
Venn Draycor, nomadic historian and last of the Script-Keepers, safeguards the fragile truth of humanity's collapse. When he sacrifices himself to protect the Codex's final fragment, he ignites a spark of hope that will echo through the skies... if his legacy can survive.
Adrix Fenn, ruthless Skyguard Commander, will stop at nothing to seize the Codex and cement the Consortium's dominion. His iron-clad belief in control clashes with the crew's vision of coexistence-and only one can prevail.
Together, they flee through lawless pirate havens, battle acid storms that rend metal and flesh, and unlock the Codex's fractal secrets: eco-cities that heal the air, weather-stabilizers that could end the storms, and a power that transcends life itself. But each revelation carries a price. The Codex's ancient AI, KEL-R13, awakens with its own agenda-and its logic may be colder than any acid rain.
As alliances shatter and new oaths are sworn in the Driftlands' shattered sky-barge coves, the crew must race across four deadly anchors-Iron Expanse, Ashen Vaults, drowned ruins of Vorthalos, and the storm-tossed Eye of Galenth-to seal open rifts in reality. Every step plunges them deeper into a war for the sky's soul.
When the final siege of Aeralis Prime erupts in a tempest of fire and lightning, the crew confronts the ultimate choice: surrender the Codex's power and preserve their lives, or ignite the skybreak and risk obliteration for the chance to remake the world.
The Celestfall Codex is Book 5 in an epic saga of sky-pirates, shattered civilizations, and the dangerous lure of forgotten knowledge. If you crave ruthless anti-heroes, soaring aerial battles, morally tangled AI, and the promise of a hard-won new dawn, strap in for the storm-and prepare to soar beyond the edge of hope.
