Ethan Reed is a broke Detroit mechanic mocked as “Scrap-Hand” by the ruthless Holt dynasty. When he stops a runaway race car with his bare hand, he awakens a forbidden power: his blood can command metal and bring machines to life. Hunted by Holt, Ethan is dragged into Iron City, a buried refuge of outcasts who see him as both their heir and their greatest threat. There he discovers that his missing father is alive, imprisoned as the core of a brutal experiment, while kidnapped children are being turned into obedient weapons with Ethan’s blood. To save them, Ethan must join forces with Marcus Kane, a former Holt enforcer haunted by the massacre that created Iron City. But the Broken Crown offers Ethan enough power to crush his enemies—if he is willing to become the next tyrant. As armies and ancient war machines awaken, a humiliated mechanic must decide whether to rule the abandoned or teach them to rise together.
