AN ACQUIRED BEDLAM

In 1960s London, Marceline Lydell is a brilliant biomedical engineer whose prosthetic designs are one failed review away from being dismissed as impossible.

Until the Underground opens where it should not…

Marceline falls into a world that has learned to make miracles from the human body. Limbs are currency. Monsters wear stolen pieces like power. Every rail, door, and light in the dark seems to remember someone else’s pain.

Imogen built that world and calls it progress.

To her, humans waste what they do not understand. But Marceline’s work was born from the opposite belief: that a broken body is not a resource to be consumed, but a life to be restored.

Now Marceline’s hands may be worth more than her life.

And she must survive long enough to prove there is more than one way to build a future from what has been lost.