Last month, I traveled to London to do some background research for the Magnificent Devices books. Internet resources and Google Earth offer a lot to the writer, but nothing beats actually walking the streets your character might have walked–even if they’re concrete and well drained as opposed to 1889, when they were cobblestone and ……
“For those who like the melding of Victorian culture with the fantastic fantasy of reality-bending science fiction, this one will be right up their alley. Think: Oliver Twist meets League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” For more, check out Review: Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina. How very kind! Thank you, Readers’ Realm!
Chapter 1 London, 1889 To say the explosion rocked the laboratory at St. Cecelia’s Academy for Young Ladies might have overstated the case, but she was still never going to hear the end of it. Claire Trevelyan closed her eyes as a gobbet of reddish-brown foam dripped off the ceiling and landed squarely on the…
London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin’s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. 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…