Mercy is a mech pilot filled with survivor's guilt and a burning desire to shatter the Coalition for what it did to her and her comrades. Yet, despite her skill as a pilot and the power of her mech, the Heaven Breaker Noxus, Mercy will need allies.

So she does the unthinkable. She begins to work covertly with the enemy of the human race, the strange and reality-warping Shimmer. If that wasn't enough, Mercy decides to take a position as a Professor at the prestigious Crown Gall where she will instruct the next generation of pilots.

Mercy's goal is to foster strong and intelligent allies and rest the world, or else be consumed by the fiery rage that propels her.

Solid Metal Nightmares is a queer sci-fi novel with elements of body horror. It explores grief and rage, how love can heal us as well as fuel our darker impulses, and the ways that violence changes us.