The Inventor's Secret
Andrea Cremer
Language: English
Pages: 373
ISBN: 0399159622
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
New from Andrea Cremer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightshade novels, comes an action-packed alternate-history steampunk adventure.
In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health (at least when they can find enough food and avoid the Imperial Labor Gatherers) and each other. When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp he brings new dangers with him and secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled has to live free of the bonds of the empire’s Machineworks.
The Inventor’s Secret is the first book of a YA steampunk series set in an alternate nineteenth-century North America where the Revolutionary War never took place and the British Empire has expanded into a global juggernaut propelled by marvelous and horrible machinery. Perfect for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan and Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines.
Praise for THE INVENTOR'S SECRET
* "Cremer...creates an inventive blend of steampunk and alternative history in this new series. She gives readers a fantastical world with mechanical wonders and an opulent vintage setting. The characters are interesting and well developed. Readers will be drawn to future installments."--VOYA, starred review
"[A]n entertaining romp in a richly imaginative setting."--Kirkus Reviews
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Into the ship’s belly, smiling at Jack as she passed him, and headed to the passenger seats at the rear of the bridge. “What is that smile about?” Jack asked, watching her go by. She didn’t answer, but laughed a moment later when she heard the thwack of Ash’s cane and Jack’s shout. Charlotte ducked her way through the narrow tube connecting the hatch to the bridge. She took her place in the row of seats behind Scoff and buckled herself into the leather harness. “We all set?” Scoff asked.
Would you think of your sister if she’d seen him running for his life and not done anything?” Charlotte heard Ash grunt in reply, and Meg laughed again. “Someday you’ll have to let her grow up.” “Athene have mercy, not you too,” Ash moaned. “Me too?” Meg asked. “Nothing,” Ash replied quickly. “Just something Jack said earlier . . . Speaking of Jack, I should—” Meg picked up where Ash’s voice trailed off. “You should go. I’ll oversee dinner.” “Thanks, Meg.” “Hurry back.” There was a long.
Company of his fellow officers and has little interest in overseeing his household.” “But he has two children,” Charlotte protested. Meg helped Charlotte into a spencer of pale green silk. “And he cared enough to ensure that his sons attended the best military academies and received officer commissions befitting their stations when they finished school. That was as far as Admiral Winter’s penchant for fatherhood extended.” Jack must despise his father, Charlotte thought. But of course he does.
Original shape and composition of the caves, the Catacombs hadn’t been left without improvements over the years. Charlotte’s favorite remained the tangle of pipes that slithered out of the rock wall, their nozzles dropping into small basins that had been carved from the rock itself. Placing a stopper in the drainage pipe that channeled water out of the Catacombs and into her bedroom, Charlotte let warm water fill the basin and went to her wardrobe. She opened the door, smiling as always as the.
Freemen and freewomen pledged to neither raise arms against the Empire, nor to support the Resistance.” “And the Empire agreed to the new settlement?” Charlotte asked. “They had set a precedent for such an agreement in the negotiations undertaken with their Indian allies after the Seven Years’ War and the Rebellion.” “To create the Indian territories in Canada.” Charlotte looked to Meg for affirmation, and the older girl smiled. “That’s right.” Setting aside the brush, Meg ran her fingers.