In a city where every heartbeat is measured, progress has become worship, and sleep is surrendered to the gears of the system. The Infernal Machine never stops—it feeds on memory, obedience, and human exhaustion. Kaelen Draeve, a craftsman exiled for questioning his father’s design, returns to find his home transformed into a metropolis of perfect control. Every dream is stored. Every action recorded. Every citizen a moving part in a mechanical god. But when Kaelen discovers the Machine isn’t metal at all—it’s built of the people who fuel it—he must decide whether to destroy what his family created or become what it always needed: a hand that turns the wheel differently.
From Allen DeKeyser, author of Unbreakable Hearts, Unstoppable Souls, comes a haunting, poetic epic about rebellion, redemption, and the cost of staying human in a world that wants you efficient instead of alive.
“We turned the wheel together—and the world began again.”
In a city where every heartbeat is measured, progress has become worship, and sleep is surrendered to the gears of the system. The Infernal Machine never stops—it feeds on memory, obedience, and human exhaustion. Kaelen Draeve, a craftsman exiled for questioning his father’s design, returns to find his home transformed into a metropolis of perfect control. Every dream is stored. Every action recorded. Every citizen a moving part in a mechanical god. But when Kaelen discovers the Machine isn’t metal at all—it’s built of the people who fuel it—he must decide whether to destroy what his family created or become what it always needed: a hand that turns the wheel differently.
From Allen DeKeyser, author of Unbreakable Hearts, Unstoppable Souls, comes a haunting, poetic epic about rebellion, redemption, and the cost of staying human in a world that wants you efficient instead of alive.
“We turned the wheel together—and the world began again.”
