BLOOD STEAM
Christopher Jackson knew every way a man could break. As Hollywood’s most renowned fight choreographer, he had spent a lifetime orchestrating fake violence. But the concrete waiting at the bottom of a forty-story drop was terrifyingly real. When a rooftop stunt goes catastrophically wrong, Christopher’s life ends on the pavement—only to violently restart in the suffocating darkness of a cargo hold. He awakes not to the glitz of Los Angeles, but to the soot-choked reality of an alternate 1940s steampunk world, occupying a body that was already supposed to be dead.
He is now Alfeo Senza, the illegitimate, discarded son of Noralli’s most ruthless mafia family. Betrayed by his own blood, Alfeo had been murdered and dumped on a steamship bound for New Angles, the glittering, class-divided capital of the continent. But waking up alive does not mean he is free. The Senza name is a death sentence, a cursed legacy that refuses to stay buried. The syndicates of the old world are already hunting the ghost of a boy who shouldn't be breathing.
Realizing that running from the underworld is impossible, Christopher makes a brutal choice: he will conquer it. Shedding his doomed identity, he rechristens himself **Crista Ferro**. Starting from the absolute bottom of the rotting slums of New Angles, armed with a master martial artist's mind and a mysterious, otherworldly power known only as the "Great Boss System," Crista begins his bloody ascent. He will no longer choreograph fake battles. He is going to forge a very real underworld empire of iron, steam, and blood, crushing anyone who stands in his way.
