Molly Blackwater: Beyond the Edge of the World

In the Empire, coal furnaces smoke, machine boilers release steam, monitor ships cut across the seas, and enormous armored trains thunder along the rails. The Empire needs a lot, and it drives from the rich fossil lands the barbarian Rooskies—whose territories the terrible Cataclysm connected to the imperial limits.

For the Empire, steam is a blessing, and magic is evil. Magic is unpredictable and deadly dangerous; it will burn a person from the inside and kill those standing nearby. That’s why a special Department has been established in the Empire to neutralize unfortunate magicians before they manage to harm anyone.

And what should you do if you are only twelve years old, and magic has suddenly awakened—and there is no way to be saved? More precisely, there is, but only a captured barbarian boy knows it… What will Molinear Evergrin Blackwater, a young well-bred miss, daughter of a railroad doctor, do?