City of the Living Flame

Jim Landor’s flight over the Martian polar cap was anything but routine. He’s chased a whispered legend—a buried city called M’Tonak, said to cradle an emerald flame bright enough to ransom a world. The hunt is personal, too; his brother vanished on the same icy frontier, leaving only cryptic clues and a burning dread that drives Jim deeper into the frozen wastes.

Touching down at the modest outpost of Riida, Jim meets the affable mine superintendent Conley and the enigmatic new surveyor Wessel. Their banter hints at countless expeditions that never returned, and the locals’ uneasy reverence for the forgotten metropolis. As the thin Martian air swirls around them, Jim’s resolve sharpens: the truth behind the living flame and his brother’s fate may finally surface, but the journey promises danger as fierce as the legend itself.