A Crown of Fractured Light: Balance is an illusion. Containment is a cage.

In a floating city where order is paramount, the greatest threat isn't the sky falling-it's the world tearing itself apart from the inside.

Rudy Lane has always felt the Veinwinds, the invisible currents that keep the Mid Strata islands aloft. But lately, the world is breathing wrong. Light fractures at impossible angles. Gravity hesitates. And the authorities, led by the steadfast and controlling Warden Trent Walsh, insist everything is perfectly stable.

When a violent gravitational rupture ...