The Fall

An apothecary clerk and her ex-mercenary allies travel across the world to discover a powerful engine that leads to secrets she wasn't meant to knowsecrets that could destroy humanity.Eight months ago, Rowena Downshire was a half-starved black market courier darting through the shadows of Dorma's underside. Today, she's a (mostly) respectable clerk in the Alchemist's infamous apothecary shop, the Stone Scales, and certainly the last girl one would think qualified to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders a second time. Looks can be deceiving. When Anselm Meteron and the Alchemist receive an invitation to an old acquaintance's ballthe Greatduke who financed their final, disastrous mercenary mission fourteen years earlierthey're expecting blackmail, graft, or veiled threats related to the plot to steal the secrets of the Creator's Grand Experiment. They aren't expecting a job offer they can't refuse or a trip halfway across the world to...