Iron Ash

The lie is centuries old.Mason Marlow was born under it. Below the poisoned surface, below the runners who die retrieving relics from its ruins, below every question you learn not to ask — and above it all, impossible and glittering, floats Caelis. The city that decides who breathes.Mason has kept his head down for seventeen years. Kept his sister alive. Asked nothing loud enough to be answered.Then a run he wasn't meant to survive puts something in his hands he wasn't meant to find.Something buried under centuries of silence.The city doesn't punish men who ask questions.It buries them.—IRON ASH is Book One of a dystopian sci-fi trilogy. For readers of Pierce Brown's *Red Rising*.