The Bridgekeeper's Rival
A Guild Magic Romantasy

About this book:

High above the churning Abyss, the city of Zephyria clings to jagged spires—connected by tension wires, counter-weighted gyroscopes, and the audacious genius of Master Architect Lucian Vance. He has the mathematics to span the impossible Grand Rift. He has the ambition to claim the sovereign charter. What he doesn't have is his master blueprint, stolen in the night by a thief who not only picked his unpickable lock but corrected his fluid dynamics on the way out the window.

Evadne Reyes survives the shadowed under-tiers by reading the hidden fault lines of metal and the balance of a mechanism before it breaks. She never expected the cold, arrogant Vance to be her match in wit—or that his own uncle would sell the public's only path to sunlight to a mining cartel. Now, with the solstice deadline looming and a rival guild master preparing to present Lucian's stolen work as his own death-trap design, the architect and the thief strike a bargain: break into the enemy's workshop, fix the bridge, and ruin the competition before the Grand Duke signs the charter.

But the Abyss doesn't care about contracts. As they navigate clockwork heists, guild politics, and wind-shear calculations that could kill thousands, Lucian's rigid order and Evadne's chaotic intuition spark a rivalry that burns hotter than a forge. In a city built on tension, the greatest structural risk isn't the mile of open void between the spires—it's the moment they stop wanting to throw each other over the edge.