First published 2026
Jack Solomon scrapes by as a musician in London's West End until the day he dies. He wakes up in an impossible place where light and music become weapons and tools of power. Beneath modern London lie the living remnants of every historical era, stacked in layers that stretch back through recorded time. The dead from these past ages have grown furious with the present world. A secret society of magic wielders harnesses this rage, using light and music to move between life and death, between now and then. These sorcerers can cross the boundaries that separate the living from the dead, the present from the past. The dead are organizing a revolution against the living, and the outcome will determine the fate of all history. Jack must choose a side in the Strata Wars, where every era of London's past has become a battlefield and the stakes reach across centuries.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, action, alternate-history
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: chosen-one, found-family
Setting: London, West End
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
464 pages · Hardcover · S&S/Saga Press