Dieselpunk, military sci-fi, and the supernatural collide in a titanic clash between two empires.

War has come. Fortresses fall to fierce men and the flames they bring. Tanks rumble across the open plains, unchecked by the opposition. And everywhere desperate battles are fought between invaders and defenders, a hundred different conflicts, and a thousand cases of heroism every day.

All paths in the south converge on one place: Malavy, largest city in the southern Athrian Imperium, and the only practical river crossing for hundreds of miles. Whoever holds the city controls the fate of the region, and the ability to dictate the course of the war. Both sides pour their best troops into the region: armor, combat engineers, paratroopers, marines, along with men and machines far more exotic.

And in the ferocious fighting to follow, only those with the stoutest hearts of steel will hold firm…