The Violet Engine: Hearts in Flux (PDF + EPUB)

London, 1943. Not our 1943. Fifty years earlier a rift tore open in reality, and out of it came the Flux: an energy that answers, faintly, to the minds around it. The world that grew up on it never needed electricity. The Violet Order measures it, rations it, and has a word for people who listen to it too closely.

Amara Lyell was taught to measure the Flux, not to listen to it. One night she does both. Beneath the Order, in the dark, someone wakes with a name and nothing else. One blue eye. One violet. The Flux, which answers to no one, goes still to listen.

A Gothic flux-punk novel of alternate history, consciousness and physics, meant to be read slowly. For readers of His Dark Materials, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and A Deadly Education.

What you get: the complete novel (prologue and 18 chapters, about 66,000 words) as a PDF typeset for screen or print, plus an EPUB for Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books and other e-readers. Want to read before you buy? The prologue and first three chapters are free for newsletter subscribers at thevioletengine.com