Our Soot Stained Heart (2025-)

The furnaces of The Coalition burn day and night, their coal the only warmth in the deep north. For honest workers like Peggy Stones, survival is dictated by a nefarious quota enforced by Governor Glass and his factory lords. To earn extra rations, one must be bad. Peggy’s refusal to comply results in imprisonment and exile, casting her out from the city’s soot-stained heart. Her journey now leads her toward the frozen ends of the world, driven by questions that could unravel the foundations of her entire society. The cold outside is a different kind of cruelty than the one she left behind.