Soot

In a world where desires are visible and bodies communicate, Eleanor, Nil, and Thomas seek to control the power of Smoke, which could either unite or destroy the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 560 pages
Publication date: 07 January 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of smoke. A world where bodies speak to one another and infect each other with desire, anger, and greed. It is 1909, and this world stands on a precipice. Some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin, while others seek to silence it forever.

Enter Eleanor, a young woman with a strange power over smoke and niece of the Lord Protector of England. Running from her uncle and home, she finds shelter in a New York theatre troupe.

Then, Nil, a thief hiding behind a self-effacing name. He is an orphan snatched from a jungle home and suspects that a clue to his origins may lie hidden in the vaults of the mighty, newly-risen East India Company.

And finally, Thomas, one of the three people to release smoke into the world. On a clandestine mission to India, he hopes to uncover the origins of smoke and lay to rest his doubts about what he helped unleash.

In a story that crosses continents, from India to England's Minetowns, these three seek to control the power of smoke. As their destinies entwine, a cataclysmic confrontation looms: the smoke will either bind them together or forever rend the world.

Weight: 382g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474600965