Lady of Devices: A steampunk adventure novel (Magnificent Devices Book 1)
β Scribed by Adina, Shelley
- Book ID
- 108862824
- Publisher
- Moonshell Books, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Series
- Magnificent Devices 1
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire's talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the chemistry lab, where things have a regrettable habit of blowing up. When her father gambles the estate on the combustion engine and loses, Claire finds herself down and out on the mean streets of London. But being a young woman of resources and intellect, she turns fortune on its head. It's not long before a new leader rises in the underworld, known only as the Lady of Devices...
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A lady of resources has the power to change the worldβif she can stay alive long enough to do it. Lady Claire Trevelyan had been looking forward to glittering balls, congenial society, and relief from pursuit during her stay with Lord and Lady Dunsmuir in the Canadas. Well, perhaps not entirely.
Lady Claire Trevelyan, left alone after the Arabian Bubble claims home and family, now leads the cleverest gang in the London underworld. Between outwitting a rival gang, inventing a device that will net her and her scientist employer worldwide fame, and keeping her mother from marrying her off, she