PublishedPan Macmillan, August 2016 |
ISBN9781250079947 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions21cm × 13.9cm × 2.2cm |
It's 1888, and Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading family - but she quickly learns that the family has big secrets. Magisters have always ruled the colonies, but now an underground society of mechanics and engineers are developing non-magical sources of power via steam engines that they hope will help them gain freedom from British rule.
The family Verity works for is magister - but it seems like the children's young guardian uncle is sympathetic to the rebel cause. As Verity falls for a charming rebel inventor and agrees to become a spy, she also becomes more and more enmeshed in the magister family's life. She soon realises she's uniquely positioned to advance the cause - but to do so, she'll have to reveal her own dangerous secret.
