Heart of Brass: 1 (The Antipodean Queen)

Emmeline Muchamore is a well-bred young lady hiding explosive family secrets. She needs to marry well and quickly in order to keep her family respectable. But when her brass heart malfunctions she makes a desperate choice to steal the parts she needs to repair it and survive.She is unable to explain her actions without revealing she has a steam-powered heart so she is arrested for theft and transported to Victoria Australia - right in the midst of the Gold Rush.Now that shes escaped the bounds of high society iron manacles cannot hold her for long.The only metal that really matters is gold.