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The Emperor's Aeronaut

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1950854396
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Aeronaut written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon is determined to conquer the world with his steam-powered weapons. Nothing in England can stop him … except two young lady inventors. In 1819, France is surrounded by armies. With Russia in the north, the Karlsruhe Confederacy in the east, and a pirate kingdom in the south, Napoleon cannot break out, nor can the English Navy seem to break in. Europe teeters on the edge of a sword. Whichever side rules the air will win. Celeste Blanchard, daughter of the Emperor’s disgraced Air Minister, is running out of time to develop an air ship that can carry his armies to England and restore her mother to glory. But on a daring and desperate test flight, she is blown off course … and washes up, half drowned, on the shores of Cornwall, in the heart of enemy territory. Loveday Penhale, cosseted daughter of gentry, has her own inventions to build, even as pressure mounts to behave like a proper young lady and seek a husband instead of a design for a high-pressure steam engine. But when Arthur Trevelyan, heir to the neighboring estate, Gwynn Place, asks for her help in rescuing an unconscious young woman on the beach, Loveday discovers an aeronaut and an inventor as skilled as she is. Between them, a friendship blossoms, and Loveday wonders if they might even pull off the impossible and invent an air ship that will catch the eye of the Tinkering Prince Regent, who has offered a prize to anyone who can help England break the impasse. Celeste’s loyalties are torn in two. If she is caught working secretly for France, she will lose her friend, the love of an honorable man—and her life. But if Napoleon learns she has betrayed him, she will be executed on sight. Can friendship prevail in the face of war? Or is there a third solution—one where everything hinges on the bravery and daring of a Cornish debutante and the Emperor’s aeronaut? The Emperor’s Aeronaut is the first novel in the Regent’s Devices trilogy set in the Magnificent Devices steampunk world. It promises no strong language, the possibility of a very proper kiss, and a guaranteed happy ending of the trilogy. If you like books by Regina Scott, Gail Carriger, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy! "Adina and Scott launch their Regent’s Devices series with a witty and whimsical flight of fancy in a subgenre they call Prinnypunk (Regency-era steampunk); it plays out as a delightfully fun mash-up of Jane Austen and Jules Verne, right down to the hint of sweet romance and the array of ingenious inventions.” —Booklist

Ladies of the Air: A Regency-set steampunk adventure box set

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Air: A Regency-set steampunk adventure box set written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Witty and whimsical.” —Booklist In 1819, during the Tinkering Prince’s Regency, Loveday Penhale is a young inventor living next door to the Trevelyan estate of Gwynn Place. Celeste Blanchard is a young French aeronaut running away from an unwanted marriage. When Celeste is blown off course during her escape and Loveday saves her life, they join forces against the technological might of Napoleon in a desperate attempt to save England from invasion. Follow their adventures in the skies and the drawing room as they journey from England to France and back again, managing the intrigue of Napoleon’s court, uncovering French spies in England, and then joining the most elite steampunk corps in England, the Prince’s Own Engineers. Their ultimate goal? To develop an airborne fleet that will end Napoleon’s dreams of conquering their homeland forever. And if love should find them along the way—what better choice could a landed gentleman make than a lady of the air? “These two authors blend together so well that I am unable to tell where one ends and the other continues. The entire series is fun to read. As I neared the ending, I slowed my reading pace. I wanted to make the story last as long as possible… and the ending left me thoroughly satisfied. Brava!” —Detra Fitch, Huntress Reviews This box set contains the Regent’s Devices trilogy set in the Magnificent Devices steampunk world. It promises no strong language, the possibility of a very proper kiss, and a guaranteed happy ending of the trilogy. If you like books by Regina Scott, Gail Carriger, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

The Air Affair

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1950854906
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Air Affair written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia Brunel, Lady Langford, boards the transcontinental airship Juno with her late husband’s aunt, Millicent Brunel. They are looking forward to nothing more dangerous than a painting holiday in the clockwork city of Venice, but trouble soon finds them in the person of Millie’s nemesis from her long-ago schooldays. Old grudges have not been forgotten. Old hurts have not healed. Will an old feud finally be resolved … in murder? “The Air Affair” is a prequel short story to the Lady Georgia Brunel Mysteries set in the Magnificent Devices steampunk world. Though these books can be read as standalones, there are threads of love and family running through them all. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Emma Jane Holloway, or Lee Strauss, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

Fields of Air: A steampunk adventure novel featuring smart, brave women

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1939087457
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Fields of Air: A steampunk adventure novel featuring smart, brave women written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her father started a war in the steampunk Wild West. She intends to stop it. Her father may have sacrificed his own life to save hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is finding it difficult to forgive him. After all, how many young ladies of her acquaintance will inherit wealth, beauty … and a legacy of arms dealing? Now the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias is about to declare war on the Texican Territory and Gloria simply will not allow it. In company with Alice Chalmers and the crew of Swan, along with a lost young Evan Douglas seeking reparation for his own sins, she takes to the air. Her intention—to stop the train carrying the final shipment of monstrous mechanicals into the Wild West. But they should have known that making a deal with air pirate Ned Mose in exchange for his help could never end well. What is a lady of principle to do? For the lives of thousands may depend on her ability to stop the war … even if it means losing everything and everyone she has come to love … “Gloria doesn’t have any hard choices she has to make. But she makes them anyway. She makes hard choices because they’re right, because of principle, because of morality, perhaps even out of a need to change her family and her business’s legacy: but Gloria’s is ultimately the most unselfish path and that is unexpected.” —Fangs for the Fantasy Fields of Air is the tenth novel in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series. While Books 9-12 can be read separately, they are best enjoyed as a quartet. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Lindsay Buroker, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

Memoirs of Constant, first valet de chambre of the emperor, on the private life of Napoleon, his family and his court

Author : Louis Constant Wairy Constant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Constant, first valet de chambre of the emperor, on the private life of Napoleon, his family and his court written by Louis Constant Wairy Constant and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts

Author : Sharon Wright
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399005391
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts by : Sharon Wright

Download or read book The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts written by Sharon Wright and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A simply brilliant history that rescues from undeserved obscurity a roster of pioneering women in the very beginning of the age of aviation.” —Midwest Book Review From have-a-go Georgians to emancipated Edwardians, the lady aeronauts were actresses, writers, heiresses, scientists, engineers, explorers, showgirls and suffragettes. These unsung trailblazers for female freedom enjoyed lives shot through with sheer courage and joie de vivre. Yet they were all but forgotten. Hold on tight for a white-knuckle balloon ride through their remarkable real-life stories . . . “You couldn’t want for a better antidote to pinkness than these tales of girls and women unleashing their pluck and inventiveness in the unregulated age of balloonomania . . . This is history at its most satisfying.” —Damesnet “Sharon Wright tells a fabulous tale, and has uncovered some terrific stories of long forgotten heroines of the air. Some stories are comic, many are tragic, many are a bit of both, and she tells it brilliantly.” —Bristol Post “History has never been so much fun!” —What’sHerName Podcast

A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Engravings Illustrating the Evolution of the Airship and the Aeroplane

Author : Maggs Bros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Engravings Illustrating the Evolution of the Airship and the Aeroplane written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete

Author : Louis Constant Wairy
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete written by Louis Constant Wairy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete, penned by Louis Constant Wairy, provides an intimate account of Napoleon's personal life. Translated by Walter Clark, this book offers unique insights into the private world of the legendary French leader. Wairy's first-hand observations and anecdotes shed light on Napoleon's character, daily routines, and significant events during his reign, making it an essential read for history enthusiasts and those fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The American Aeronaut and Aerostatist

Author : T. R. MacMechen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Aeronaut and Aerostatist written by T. R. MacMechen and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot: Candlewick Biographies

Author : Matthew Clark Smith
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 1536205540
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot: Candlewick Biographies by : Matthew Clark Smith

Download or read book Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot: Candlewick Biographies written by Matthew Clark Smith and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smith tells Sophie’s inspiring story with a buoyant sense of wonder, fitting for a woman who was happiest in the air. Her accomplishments and passion for flight are brought beautifully to life by Tavares.” — Booklist (starred review) Take to the skies with the story of Sophie Blanchard, an extraordinary woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history. In eighteenth-century France, “balloonomania” has fiercely gripped the nation . . . but all of the pioneering aeronauts are men until a shy girl comes along, devoted to her dream of flight. Sophie is not the first woman to ascend in a balloon, nor the first woman to accompany an aeronaut on a trip, but she will become the first woman to climb to the clouds and steer her own course.

A Lady of Resources: A steampunk adventure novel featuring smart, brave women

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1939087058
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Lady of Resources: A steampunk adventure novel featuring smart, brave women written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family ... or can you? Now sixteen, the twins Lizzie and Maggie are educated young ladies who have not been called “the Mopsies” in years … except by their guardian, Lady Claire Trevelyan. With the happy prospect of choosing their own future, the girls can leave their dodgy past behind, and Lizzie can bury her deepest childhood memories where they can do no harm. But is she ready to be separated from Maggie and become the woman she believes she was meant to be? Or will old habits tempt her into defiance—like picking the wrong man’s pocket—and plunge her into disaster? But sometimes disaster leads to dreams coming unexpectedly true—dreams of family and a place in the world. Lizzie must decide whether her true family is the one she was born to … or the one she chose long ago when the Lady of Devices steamed into their lives … “This story is an excellent introduction into a new chapter in the Magnificent Devices series, showing the world can continue even with Lady Claire taking a back seat. This makes me immensely happy because it means one of my favourite steampunk series now has nearly infinite scope for continuation and expansion. May the series continue going from strength to strength!” —Fangs for the Fantasy, on A Lady of Resources A Lady of Resources is the fifth novel in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series. Books 5 and 6 form a duet. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Lindsay Buroker, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

Memoirs of Constant - First Valet de Chambre to the Emperor

Author : Louis Constant Wairy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908692499
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Constant - First Valet de Chambre to the Emperor written by Louis Constant Wairy and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Constant Wairy, mainly known as Constant through-out his life and as the author of his memoirs, was a man intimately connected to General Bonaparte and his wife Josephine Beauharnais, and later in their incarnation as Emperor and Empress of the French. Achieving the rank of first valet de chambre to the Emperor after the previous incumbent Louis Marchand, who also wrote a memoir of his experiences shadowing Napoleon, had abandoned him in 1814. A definite admirer of the Emperor, his place in the Emperor’s household allowed access to the Great man and as he says himself; “From the departure of the First Consul for the campaign of Marengo, whither I attended him, until the departure from Fontainebleau, where I was obliged to leave the Emperor, I was absent from him only twice, the first time for three times twenty-four hours, the second for seven or eight days. Aside from these brief holidays, the last of which was necessary in order to restore my health, I quitted the Emperor no more than his shadow did.” For this reason alone ensures that the memoirs which he wrote, and although not quite the “warts and all” portrait that Constant might have us believe it is of capital interest to the general reader and the Napoleonic enthuasiast. Author – Louis Constant Wairy, known as Constant 02nd December 1778-1845 Foreword - Imbert de Saint-Amand. 1834-1900

The Pilot's Promise

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1950854892
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Promise written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When love is as forbidden as the skies… After sharing the Prince Regent’s victory at the Battle of Amiens, Diana Edwards must keep her pride in trim and remember she is still only a cadet in the fledgling Royal Aeronautic Corps. But with the new female flight director not yet arrived to take up her post, Diana and her cousin Emily are the only women at the flight school. They must not only battle contrary winds to prove they have promise, but also the contrary men who believe women have no place in the skies. Captain Gordon Hollys has never met a woman as maddening as Cadet Edwards. She is as tall as he is, never lets an opinion go unexpressed, and seems to believe that flight is her calling, if not her right. But when a series of accidents make it clear that someone wants her and her cousin out of the way for good, Hollys cannot say no when Diana asks for help. And soon he begins to wonder whether a woman as clever and brave as she might be just what his heart desires … if he has the courage to make her a promise of his own. The Pilot’s Promise is a short sequel novella immediately following events of the Regent’s Devices trilogy written by Shelley Adina and R.E. Scott and set in the Magnificent Devices steampunk world. It can be read as a standalone, and promises no strong language, the possibility of a very proper kiss, and a guaranteed happy ending. If you like books by Regina Scott, Gail Carriger, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

American Aeronaut

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Aeronaut written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magnificent Devices Books 1-2: A steampunk adventure with a riches-to-rags found family

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magnificent Devices Books 1-2: A steampunk adventure with a riches-to-rags found family written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants to be an engineer, but society will never allow it. Until riots break out in steampunk London and she seizes her chance... It’s 1889, and Lady Claire Trevelyan is expected to do nothing more with her life than catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, her talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the laboratory, where her experiments have an embarrassing habit of blowing up. When her father gambles the estate on the combustion engine and loses, Claire finds herself out in the street with nothing to her name but her steam landau and her second best hat. But the embarrassments of her old life might be the talents that save her now ... if she can stay alive long enough to barter her skills for a street gang’s protection. It’s not long before a new leader rises in the London underworld, known only as the Lady of Devices … a double life Claire must keep secret. Will she achieve her goal of an engineering degree? Will her loyalty to her friends be her undoing when it jeopardizes the plans of powerful men? And just how many funerals will her unfortunate mother be forced to arrange? “An immensely fun series, a wonderful main character (one of my favourites in the genre) and a great sense of Victorian style and language that’s both fun and beautiful to read.” —Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective This two-book set contains Lady of Devices and Her Own Devices, the first two novels in the Magnificent Devices series. The series is meant to be read in order, but it is divided into duets and quartets for easy navigation. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Lindsay Buroker, or Nancy Warren, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

A Gentleman of Means: A steampunk adventure novel featuring smart, brave inventors

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1939087287
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Gentleman of Means: A steampunk adventure novel featuring smart, brave inventors written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much must one sacrifice for the sake of friendship? Lady Claire Trevelyan has had to deal with betrayal before, but none is quite so painful as the belief that Gloria Meriwether-Astor deserted her and her friends and left them to die under the waters of Venice. But when she learns that Gloria has vanished, can she do the right thing and attempt to find the missing heiress? Of course she must. But this does not sit well with the gentlemen in her life, who had every reason to believe she planned to settle down at last. Suddenly Claire finds herself without a career, a fiancé, or the confidence in her own abilities that has carried her this far. Worse, Captain Ian Hollys is suffering from the megrims and cannot seem to recover from his dreadful experience as a prisoner. Alice’s dream of captaining her own ship in England is scuttled. Tigg is struggling with a revelation that has turned his life upside down—and may result in a betrayal more harrowing than any the flock has yet seen. Will the bond of friendship that has brought Claire and the flock together be the very thing that separates them for good? Or will love tip the balance and prove that what really defines a gentleman of means is none other than a lady of resources? “I have to repeat how excellent this series is with the female characters. Not just because they’re good and capable and interesting, but because they’re also different.” Fangs for the Fantasy, on A Gentleman of Means A Gentleman of Means is the eighth novel in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Lindsay Buroker, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

Acorn: A steampunk adventure novella with romance, danger, and flying machines

Author : Shelley Adina
Publisher : Moonshell Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1950854590
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Acorn: A steampunk adventure novella with romance, danger, and flying machines written by Shelley Adina and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying and love. Which poses the greater risk? To outsiders, Lewis Protheroe is merely private secretary to Lady Claire and Sir Andrew Malvern, the most famous inventors in steampunk London. But to insiders, Lewis is a financial wizard and the owner of the Gaius Club, where the hottest bets this month are on the races at the Kennington Oval. Lewis and Snouts can’t resist the chance to go. The races are illegal, but the purse is large enough to attract daring inventors of personal flying machines from all over the country. As long as they don’t get caught… Lady Philomena Noakes has been driven to the Oval by pride and despair. Women are not allowed to compete, of course, but women aren’t allowed to do very much in a Blood family, except be married off to the highest bidder. If she can just fool everyone long enough to show what she can do with her dilapidated flying machine, winning the purse could change everything. And perhaps two lonely people might discover that flying and love are the two things in the world that pose the greatest risk—and the greatest happiness. “This is one of those books you can't help but cheer for. The plot is exciting, the challenges are difficult, and the stakes could not be higher. It's a quick read, and will keep you on the edge of your seat.” —Lori Alden Holuta, author of the Brassbright Chronicles Acorn is the fifth novella that follows book 12 of the Magnificent Devices steampunk series. These short reads capture secondary characters about whom readers have wanted more. Though they can be read as standalones, there are threads of romance, friendship, and family running through them all. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Lindsay Buroker, or Nancy Warren, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!