We invite you to take a peek at Jay Kristoff’s upcoming Japanese steampunk adventure Stormdancer, out from St. Martin’s Press on 9/18 and Tor UK on 9/13. (And take a look at the cover art process post here!)

The first in an epic new fantasy series, introducing a new heroine and a dystopian steampunk world with a flavor of feudal Japan.

The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever...

[Read the first four chapters of Stormdancer]