The future was built with fire, iron, and forgetting. The Architect's Gambit explores the human stories behind ten industrial wonders of the world - bridges, lighthouses, canals, and machines that reshaped the modern age. Each story unearths the ambition, deceit, and sacrifice that powered invention: a ship that sails without crew, a tower that whispers to its builder, an engineer who trades his heartbeat for progress. From the Brooklyn Bridge to the SS Great Eastern, from the Bell Rock Lighthouse to the Deltaworks, these tales transform history into myth and machinery into prayer. Blending historical realism with speculative mystery, Lysander Solen's Wonders Cycle continues with a meditation on creation itself - what we build, what we break, and what remains of us when the engines fall silent. The world runs because someone struck a match. The question is what burns to keep it turning.