by Ayman Khrasat
Two hundred years after a corporate greed triggered the end of the world, the city of Petra has finally opened its gates. Salma al-Hakim has spent her life studying the wasteland from behind stone walls. Now she must walk through it — negotiating with warlords, earning the trust of mutated survivors, and building something her world hasn't seen in two centuries: a nation. But the Steel Paladins are coming. A crusading army from across the sea, armed with Power Armor and absolute conviction, they don't negotiate. They purify. Her only allies are a general who leads with his fists, an engineer who sees weapons where others see scrap and two immortal soldiers who have spent two hundred years searching for a death that won't come. They are called Cursed Ones. They were children once. A corporation made sure they would never be anything else. This is not a story about heroes. It is a story about ghosts — and what they choose to haunt.
