This world has one absolute truth: Aura is a gift only for women. They're the only ones who can touch the core of an Artifact—ancient robots left behind by a forgotten civilization—and bring them to life. Men like Kaelan are nothing more than mechanics, stuck in the background, useless.
That is… until the day Kaelan laid his hand on a junked Artifact called Rustbucket. And from that moment, the broken world began to crack.