The Iron Order

In a dying empire where steam power and ancient honor collide, a disgraced military cadet holds the key to salvation: forbidden knowledge from another world. Cast out and left for dead, he must transform a band of outcasts into an unstoppable army, armed with tactics and technology centuries ahead of their time. He will navigate treacherous court intrigue and battlefields drenched in gunpowder, forging an alliance with a young sovereign to build a new military-industrial machine from the ground up. From a forgotten exile to the architect of a new age, he will unify a continent through conquest, culminating in a world war that will decide the fate of nations and forge an iron throne atop the ashes of the old world.