​After her father’s retirement due to poor health, Cosette Argant proudly continued his trade, forging a reputation as Marenburg’s first female jeweler. But business flounders after Tearnan warships attack her coastal home, turning the narrow streets and ancient walled Quarters into brutal battlefields. When the rippling violence destroys nearly everything she and her family have built, Cosette fears losing her father as well and enacts a desperate plan to cross the war-torn city to reach him.

While smuggling herself through occupied territory, she is mistaken for a spy and captured by the Tearnan army. Now a prisoner, Cosette is caught in a struggle between enemy factions intent on using her for their own ends. Her only hope of release, and of reaching her father, is to cooperate with the invaders. But as the fighting intensifies, Cosette finds it increasingly difficult to cooperate without betraying the city—or the people—she loves, until she must make a choice she never expected to have to face.

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Written with the feel of historical fiction but the immersive world-building and intrigue of an epic fantasy, the Lochsmith series is an intimate story of one ordinary woman’s experience with war and the impact a single civilian can have on a continent-wide conflict. Perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Guns of the Dawn, S. A. Chakraborty’s City of Brass, or Hannah Kaner's Godkiller.