Maeve Everleigh

Aboard the great coal-burning zeppelin *Kurogane*, Kazuki attends to the whims of the wealthy as they drift across toxic planetary cloud decks. His gift is simple: he smells every lie, every spike of terror, and every drop of venom in the circulating air. That is how he knows the reclusive countess in Suite Nine is no mortal passenger. Shizuka is a mist-vampire, an uncanny entity that feeds on the emotional exhalations of dying men. When her nocturnal hunting trips trip the ship's pneumatic scrubbers, Kazuki should raise the alarm. Instead, her cool, intoxicating presence brings peace to his overstimulated mind. But in the thin air between worlds, desire is as volatile as steam.

Nusa has one golden rule: don't touch live wires during an electrical storm. He is forced to break it when he finds Sela, a tempest-shifter with electric-blue wings, treating the continental telegraph network as her personal snack buffet. When an industrial power cartel rolls out steam-powered condenser engines designed to harvest every drop of storm-magic from the sky, Sela's clan faces extinction. Since Nusa is the only person on the continent whose skin can ground her volatile static shocks without bursting into flames, she ropes him into an airborne sabotage mission across five nations. Surviving the high-voltage sabotage is hard enough, but resisting their wildly electric mutual attraction proves downright impossible.