Echo Repairer

Ella is a special kind of restorer. By touching objects, she can read fragments of memories belonging to the people whose "echoes" they carry. One day, a silent giant brings her a bloodstained copper pocket watch. Sealed inside it is the resentment of the victims of a mining disaster: "The killer is one of you." Reflected in the watch is the face of Arthur Crawford, the empire's most prominent industrial magnate, as a young man.

To uncover the truth behind the disaster, Ella ventures into the abandoned Blackthorn Mine and enters the Heart of Burning Steel, a salon frequented by the powerful. She outmaneuvers Crawford's pursuers and struggles against the vengeful spirits of the disaster's victims. Using her restoration skills to unlock the secrets hidden in objects, she examines Flynn's notes, experimental records stored in memory-resonance crystals, and energy data from the Eye of the Furnace, piecing together the truth bit by bit: Crawford deliberately ignored safety risks to test his magic crystal technology, causing the disaster, then used his power to cover it up.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.