Lauren Hentschel

1889. Haiti rules the Caribbean. Professor Théodore Bastien has a submersible of obsidian and brass, a talking goat who says he's a deposed god, and a map to the hollow Earth. What he finds below is a bureaucracy that assigns every visitor a role, a clock ticking toward the end of everything, and a rogue captain who intends to unwrite existence itself. To survive, Bastien and his crew must do something no character in the Ministry's script has ever dared: pick up the pen and write their own ending.