Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy #1)

“The exciting beginning of a promising
new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative
magic, and heart-pounding heists.”—Brandon Sanderson
In a city that runs on
industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality
itself–the first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett.
 
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a
heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique
abilities can’t handle.
 
But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been
sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could
revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant
Houses who control this magic–the art of using coded commands to imbue
everyday objects with sentience–have already used it to transform
Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can
unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to
suit their aims.
 
Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia
dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne,
there’s nobody with the power to stop them.
 
To have a chance
at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under
way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the
artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one