Red Skies

Toby Weatherspoon gets caught in a world of intrigue that's boiling beneath the surface of his hometown, the floating city-state of New Welling when he stumbles onto the murder scene of his own father and finds his name written in blood.

That word, "Tobias" lands him in the sights of the Sky Marshals, and gets him caught in a conspiracy that has infiltrated every level of his beloved home and drags him into a seedy underworld he never knew existed in his idyllic zeppelin nation.

Now on the run for his life, it's up to Toby and his newfound friend, Ruby a tailor who's much more than she seems, to uncover the secrets that led to the death of his father and to mete out justice, even against those who are supposed to be enforcing it.

(Note, there are no Cultivation or LitRPG elements in this story, it's just a good ole' Floating City Steampunk Murder Mystery.)