The Gullet

A forged death certificate is the only proof Rawley Kern has that his wife is gone — and the moment he reaches Pendrath, the city bored downward into a sea cliff, he begins to doubt it. Seven Landings ring the great shaft, each guarded by permits, tolls, and Keepers who trade in fear. Below the last of them lies darkness no one returns from. Rawley carries his wife's sketchbook full of symbols nobody will explain, and everyone in the city seems to want it.