Tales from the Gunpowder Chronicles

<p><strong>Asian steampunk at its finest with three new tales of adventure from bestselling author Jeannie Lin<br />East meets West in a clash of gunpowder technology versus steam in an epic and richly-detailed series.</strong></p><p><strong>Features three standalone stories:</strong><br />Big Trouble in Old Shanghai<br />The Island of the Opium-Eaters<br />Love in the Time of Engines</p><p><strong>Big Trouble in Old Shanghai</strong><br />The signs are there. Gangs roaming the streets the very earth shaking beneath their feet. Ming-fen could tell something was coming to Old Shanghai but she didn't know exactly what until the city erupted in fiery rebellion — with her brother caught on the wrong side. With the streets in turmoil Ming-fen must rely on her fighting skills and a blue-eyed foreign devil to survive the day and perhaps keep an already broken city from all-out civil war.<br /><br /><strong>The Island of the Opium-Eaters</strong><br />Sagara Satomi hasn't set foot on land since she was exiled from Nippon and cast adrift upon a ship owned by a notorious Chinese rebel. Rogue alchemist Yang Hanzhu has spent years chasing dark rumors plotting a course toward an unmarked island with a mysterious past. Will they uncover the island's secrets? Or be buried there along with them?<br /><br /><strong>Love in the Time of Engines</strong><br /><br /><em>A prequel to Gunpowder Alchemy.</em><br /><br />Amidst rumors the West has developed powerful steam engines the Ministry of Science seeks to recruit new talent. Golden boy Jin Zhi-fu meets mathematics prodigy Shi Anlei while attending the Academy but doesn't realize his new friend is a woman disguised as a man. It's the only way she'd be allowed to take the imperial examination.<br /><br />When Anlei's hidden identity is discovered Zhi-fu and Anlei are forced into a test more difficult than the exam — one that challenges the limits of duty friendship and love.</p>