The Kalis Experiments

Syrina is a Kalis: a master of disguise, assassin, and spy. Her kind has served the High Merchants'' Syndicate for a thousand generations.
She receives a surprising gift from her master, and she realizes something isn''t right. The High Merchants don''t do anything without a reason.
When things don''t add up in an otherwise normal investigation, she follows the trail to the steam-powered city of Fom. There, she learns of a machine that could end civilization a second time.
Will Syrina stave off disaster, or seek revenge?