The Iron Peninsula

To own the light, you must first bleed for the iron. Cyprian Vane returned to the industrial rot of the Iron Peninsula to bury his father, not to inherit a crumbling empire of salt and secrets. But as the Aethelgard turbines hum across the Atlantic, the exiled scholar discovers his family's "clean energy" is fueled by a biological horror that is now rewriting his own DNA. With the ruthless Southern Union blockading the coast and a populist uprising threatening to torch the shipyards, Cyprian must forge a desperate alliance with those who hate his name.
Beneath the bioluminescent glow of the harbor, a century-old conspiracy awakens-one that demands a sovereign's sacrifice to keep the world from going dark. When the city itself is alive and hungry, can a man save his people without becoming the monster who enslaved them?