Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamund Bookchild - a boy with an unfortunate name - has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamund has been drafted into the ranks of the Half Continent's "Lamplighters…
Meet Ivy and Bean, two friends who never meant to like each other.