Description

A mysterious message from a midnight duelist sends fashion reporter Maddie Hatter to New York's finest parasol dueling academy where she foils a daring daylight kidnapping & ends up undercover in a Gilded Age mansion. Soon she's up to her lace gloves in social teas, industrial intrigues, and irrepressible street urchins. When she comes face to face with powerful figures from her hidden past, everything she's struggled to earn is in jeopardy.

"Spirited heroines, secret identities, engaging orphans, dueling parasols and gadgets galore!"

"another well-crafted, fast-paced mystery laden with intrigue; a romp through steampunk New York"

"this world of steam-driven machinery, inventions, airships, clockwork-type animated birds seems as real as our own"