| Devices Brightly Shining: A steampunk Christmas novella Contributor(s): Adina, Shelley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1939087376 ISBN-13: 9781939087379 Publisher: Moonshell Books, Inc. OUR PRICE: $8.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Steampunk - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical |
| Series: Magnificent Devices |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.32 lbs) 122 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Book nine of the Magnificent Devices series-a 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 season-on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fianc e Alice Chalmers to London to attend and to meet his family--people who cannot see past her flight boots to the woman who stands by his side as an equal. While adjusting to life as a newlywed, seeing to her business affairs, and preparing the Mopsies to return to school in Munich, Lady Claire is settling into her new life with joy. 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 they don't include cutting off the supply of arms to the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias, as Gloria is determined to do. It's time for someone with a spine, an airship of her own, and reasons to put fields of air between herself and decisions about her future to pull up ropes and warn Gloria that betrayal is closer than she thinks ... |
Contributor Bio(s): Adina, Shelley: - Shelley Adina is the author of 24 novels published by Harlequin, Warner, and Hachette, and more than a dozen more published by Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk and contemporary romance as Shelley Adina; as Adina Senft, writes Amish women's fiction; and as Charlotte Henry, writes classic Regency romance. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction, and is at work on her PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in the UK. She won RWA's RITA Award(R) 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. |