Spectre of War

<p><strong>In a steam-powered Britain ruled by a third Queen Victoria danger walks on iron legs-and conspiracy floats in the skies.</strong></p><p>The streets of London rumble beneath the feet of colossal clockwork giants and airships crisscross the smog-choked skies carrying whispers of war. After a devastating calamity sweeps across Europe Inspector Vanessa Hargreaves of Scotland Yard is assigned to a strange new beat: enforcing the laws of steamcraft technology in a city cracking under pressure.</p><p>Teamed with the flamboyant and unpredictable Detective Arturo C. Adler Vanessa stumbles upon a dark plot-one that threatens to unleash a manufactured plague to stop an imminent Ottoman incursion from the East. But as enemies in brass and velvet close in Vanessa must confront not only a world on the edge of war but her own crumbling faith in Queen and Country.</p><p>Caught between clockwork empires chemical warfare and the decaying grandeur of a Victorian age that refuses to die Vanessa must uncover the truth before the nation is consumed by a new kind of horror-one born not of fire but of sickness and silence.</p><p><strong>A thrilling steampunk detective mystery filled with espionage grit and grandeur. Dive into a world where gaslamp intrigue meets dystopia and loyalty may be the most dangerous weapon of all.</strong></p>