Fields of Air: A steampunk adventure novel (Magnificent Devices)

Fields of Air: A steampunk adventure novel (Magnificent Devices)

Her father started a war. She intends to stop it. Her father may have sacrificed his own life to save hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is finding it difficult to forgive him. After all, how many young ladies of her acquaintance will inherit wealth, beauty … and a legacy of arms dealing? Now the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias is about to declare war on the Texican Territories and Gloria simply will not allow it. In company with Alice Chalmers and the crew of Swan , along with a lost young Evan Douglas seeking reparation for his own sins, she takes to the air. Her intention—to stop the train carrying the final shipment of monstrous mechanicals into the Wild West. But they should have known that making a deal with air pirate Ned Mose in exchange for his help could never end well. What is a lady of principle to do? For the lives of thousands may depend on her ability to stop the war … even if it means losing everything and everyone she has come to love … “Gloria doesn’t have any hard choices she has to make. But she makes them anyway. She makes hard choices because they’re right, because of principle, because of morality, perhaps even out of a need to change her family and her business’s legacy: but Gloria’s is ultimately the most unselfish path and that is unexpected.” —Fangs for the Fantasy Fields of Air is the tenth novel in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series. While Books 9-12 can be read separately, they are best enjoyed as a quartet. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. Enjoy! "It's another element I love about these books; from Claire to Gloria to Alice to Lizzie and Maggie to Lady Dunsmuir, the women in this series generally like and respect each other. Other women are not required to be lesser--weaker, more cowardly, less intelligent--in order for Claire to be awesome. She is not an exceptional woman, she is an awesome woman among awesome women." --Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective 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.