Lamplight City is the gateway to Vespuccia, the City of Air and Light. The thriving port city of New Bretagne is presented as a beacon of progress and industrial advancement in the New World.

Behind its promises of a bright 19th-century future, the city is built on poverty, class struggle, and crime.

Police detective turned private investigator Miles Fordham works these shadowy streets, while his former partner speaks to him from beyond the grave. As his grip on sanity weakens, he must try to find justice for his clients and track down his partner’s killer before his world falls apart.