In Woodrow’s world, the moon is a shattered disk in the vaulted sky. It serves as a constant reminder of his own broken life. At fifteen, he’s seen his genius father murdered and his hometown burned to the ground. He escaped the destruction on his father’s greatest invention, a mysterious airship. But everywhere he goes, a bad reputation precedes him. Woodrow the Wicked, they call him. They say he killed his father and burned his town.

Now Woodrow and his ragtag airship crew find themselves relentlessly pursued across a fantastic world by a family of aristocratic sociopaths bent on killing Woodrow and obtaining the ship for their own sinister gain. Will Woodrow become the wicked boy the world thinks he is? Will he survive to rise above his reputation?