The Queen's Herald: Ink & Blades. The Queen's Herald, #1

Victorian London bleeds beneath a fog that does not belong to this world. It is 1888. Women vanish from Whitechapel's streets. Time fractures at crossroads where celestial watchers look away. And something ancient - older than the Empire itself - feeds on ritual death. Michael Silvers is not a detective. He is not a priest. He is not a man meant to survive this century. Chosen by Queen Lilith herself, Michael is appointed Herald of the Void Archive - a living ledger that records what Heaven refuses to judge and Hell is too eager to claim.
Armed with the Inkblade, a quill-forged dagger capable of rewriting fate, he is sent into 1888 London with an impossible mandate:Save thirteen souls destined for Jack the Ripper's blade. No more. No less. Exactly. But the Ripper is not merely a murderer. He is a vessel - part of an elite bloodline sustained by a fallen angel and centuries of sanctioned sacrifice. Each death is deliberate. Each soul fuels a covenant older than the Empire itself.
As Michael navigates a city twisted between dimensions - where fog whispers memories, celestial watchers erase inconvenient truths, and the dead negotiate with the living - he discovers the first soul marked for redemption: a mute orphan girl whose sleep-written prophecies threaten Heaven, Hell, and the past that created both. Every soul Michael saves weakens the bloodline. Every intervention draws the attention of powers that do not forgive defiance.
And the ink that protects him may yet demand a greater price. The Queen's Herald: Ink & Blades is mythic grimdark fantasy for readers who want their horror systemic, their heroes accountable, and their Victorian London haunted by something far older than fog. Some souls are condemned by history. Others are erased by design. Michael Silvers counts them all.