If the curtains had only been drawn. Then none of this would have happened.
And Norlandia would be a different place.

When Daniel, the lamplighter, falls from his ladder, an unexpected chain of events is set in motion.

Daniel has witnessed a terrible crime through the uncurtained window. As investigations proceed, it becomes more than a simple matter of discovering who was responsible.
The very security and stability of the land are at stake.
For Silas, a Watchman in Aserol, a whole new world is revealed to him. Almost before he knows it, his life is in danger, and he is thrown headlong into a desperate race against time.
Joining a shadowy organisation dedicated to fighting those who would stop at nothing to achieve their evil ends, Silas and his newfound friends follow the evidence across a land driven by machines of steam and clockwork.

"I loved the novel. It was very different, I thought, possibly even unique."