A Trace of Madness is the first book in the Seas of Insanity Trilogy. It’s an epic fantasy with light steampunk influences:
The lost, the mad, the forgotten. No one knows what started it. All they know is when. For the past two hundred years, people have had their minds crumble. It can happen to a child, it can happen to an elder. No one knows when exactly it will happen to them.
They only know it will happen to everyone.
And the nations of the world adapted to their new reality. They put their lost in asylums, or in graves, forgot about them and moved on. They accepted it as inevitable.
Now, as the balance of power is shifting, these nations prepare for war. Blades are sharpened, guns loaded and cannons primed. But as the world tithers on the brink of madness, their fate might not be as inevitable as they thought.
Three captains, one broken by loss, one by family, one by country. Between the three of them, they might be sane enough to pull the world back.
If they but can work together.