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Drinking Iron
.Lucian Crowe is eight years old when the world teaches him that survival has teeth.
After escaping the brutal Clank-House where children are worked beneath iron, steam, and stone, Lucian crosses a desert already determined to kill him. He is starving, wounded, and changing into something he does not understand.
Something stronger.
Something hungrier.
Then he falls in with the Strays.
Led by outlaw Erasmus Talliver, the gang becomes the closest thing Lucian has ever had to a family. Under Talliver’s watch, he learns to shoot, ride, steal, fight, and—most importantly—control the violence growing inside him. Alongside the sharp-tongued Rosa, deadly Tilly Tombstone, Cragmore, Nana Inez, and the rest of the crew, Lucian begins to discover that being dangerous does not have to mean being cruel.
But the frontier has monsters of its own.
Cursed creatures wander the wastes. Vale Industries hides secrets behind brass, blood, and locked doors. Beneath the cities, human lives are bought and sold like freight. And everywhere Lucian goes, stories begin following him.
Stories about impossible robberies.
About bodies left behind.
About a boy who moves too fast, heals too quickly, and survives things no child should.
The songs call him a legend.
The law calls him a killer.
Lucian is still trying to decide what he calls himself.
Drinking Iron is the first book in The Tale of Lucian Crowe, a dark Weird West saga of found family, supernatural horror, outlaw legends, and one boy’s descent toward a name the frontier will never forget.
After escaping the brutal Clank-House where children are worked beneath iron, steam, and stone, Lucian crosses a desert already determined to kill him. He is starving, wounded, and changing into something he does not understand.
Something stronger.
Something hungrier.
Then he falls in with the Strays.
Led by outlaw Erasmus Talliver, the gang becomes the closest thing Lucian has ever had to a family. Under Talliver’s watch, he learns to shoot, ride, steal, fight, and—most importantly—control the violence growing inside him. Alongside the sharp-tongued Rosa, deadly Tilly Tombstone, Cragmore, Nana Inez, and the rest of the crew, Lucian begins to discover that being dangerous does not have to mean being cruel.
But the frontier has monsters of its own.
Cursed creatures wander the wastes. Vale Industries hides secrets behind brass, blood, and locked doors. Beneath the cities, human lives are bought and sold like freight. And everywhere Lucian goes, stories begin following him.
Stories about impossible robberies.
About bodies left behind.
About a boy who moves too fast, heals too quickly, and survives things no child should.
The songs call him a legend.
The law calls him a killer.
Lucian is still trying to decide what he calls himself.
Drinking Iron is the first book in The Tale of Lucian Crowe, a dark Weird West saga of found family, supernatural horror, outlaw legends, and one boy’s descent toward a name the frontier will never forget.
401 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2026
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