Shelley Adina

Devices Brightly Shining: A steampunk Christmas novella (Magnificent Devices, #9) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Book nine of the Magnificent Devices seriesa short Christmas sugarplum!

On the first day of Christmas

My true love gave to me

Dreadful relations, high expectations,

And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.

It is the event of the seasonon Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire Trevelyan and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fiancée Alice Chalmers to attend and meet his familypeople who cannot see past her flight boots to the woman who stands by his side as an equal.

When two young cousins of Gloria Meriwether-Astor arrive in London, the inhabitants of Carrick House are happy to welcome them. Sydney and Hugh Meriwether-Astor are completing a world tour, and the Dunsmuirs' ball is just the thing to cap it off in splendid fashion. But Maggie learns that Sydney has his own plans for the family business. And unlike Gloria, said plans don't include cutting off the supply of arms to the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias.

It's time for Alicesomeone with a spine, an airship of her own, and reasons to put fields of air between herself and decisions about her futureto pull up ropes and warn Gloria that betrayal is closer than she thinks ...

"Some very nice challenges and examination of sexism of the era. There's the obviousall of the women are planning their own lives. Even better, they're all planning different lives, different pathsbecause there's more than one way for a woman to live and be strong and express her agency... The books are already turning into far more than Claire's story and I'm happy to see that." Fangs for the Fantasy, on Devices Brightly Shining

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Moonshell Books, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781939087362
• Artikelnr.: 54645893

Autorenporträt

Shelley Adina is the author of over forty novels published by Harlequin, Warner, Hachette, and Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk and cozy mysteries as Shelley Adina; as Adina Senft, is the USA Today bestselling author of Amish women's fiction; and as Charlotte Henry, writes classic Regency romance. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK. She won RWA's RITA Award® in 2005, and was a finalist in 2006. She appeared in the 2016 documentary film Love Between the Covers, is a popular speaker and convention panelist, and has been a guest on many podcasts, including Worldshapers and Realm of Books. When she's not writing, Shelley is usually quilting, sewing historical costumes, or enjoying the garden with her flock of rescued chickens.