Overview
Enjoy this first in series novel of steampunk cozy fantasy that's family friendly and full of heart, by award-winning author Shelley Adina. She wants to be an engineer, but her parents-and 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 when everyone knows the world runs on steam, 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 if she is to achieve her dream and become the assistant to a world-renowned scientist ... This is the first large print hardcover novel in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series, in which you may find books 1-4 are best read as a quartet. Fangs for the Fantasy says Claire is ""a wonderful main character (one of my favourites in the genre)"" and the series has ""a great sense of Victorian style and language that's both fun and beautiful to read. Enjoy!
Full Product Details
Author: Shelley Adina
Publisher: Moonshell Books, Inc.
Imprint: Moonshell Books, Inc.
Edition: Large type / large print edition
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.653kg
ISBN: 9781963929485
ISBN 10: 1963929489
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 16 February 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""This is the first in a series of well-reviewed books set in the steampunk world. 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."" --Readers' Realm on Lady of Devices ""An immensely fun book in an immensely fun series with some excellent anti-sexist messages, 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
Author Information
Shelley Adina is the author of some 60 novels published by Harlequin, Warner, Hachette, and Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk adventure and mystery as Shelley Adina, and as Adina Senft, is the USA Today bestselling author of Amish romance. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK; her dissertation was a historical women's fiction novel. 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.
