The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire Book One
A riotous novel of alternate history set in a divided England.
Theland is divided, following the Luddite revolution, into the puritan, progress-hatingnorth and the decadent, Royalist south. Living right on the border and flittingbetween the two nations Elizabeth Barnabus lives a precarious double life – as bothherself and posing as her own brother, the daring private detective. Now she istrying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcanemachines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks, and self-proclaimed inventors ofa travelling alchemical circus. But when she Elizabeth up against an agent of the all-powerful PatentOffice, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And notnecessarily for the better…File Under: Fantasy [ The Greatest Show  Remington Brass  First Class  Guises and Disguises ]