The Ghost Engine

Ada Lovelace's granddaughter is sucked into a computer where she finds she's not the only one fighting for equality. "TRON" meets "Pride & Prejudice" in this work which won first place in the Australian Horror Writers 2012 Mentorship program. She thought she could change the world... When Lady Elizabeth Ada Lovelace, a beautiful, arrogant suffragette, purchased the 19th-century Algorithmic Engine in order to become the world's first programmer, she planned to break the shackles of inequality for Victorian women. Until her world became that of the machine... Instead she learns the true meaning of equality when she ends up trapped, brought down to the level of the machine. Inside the double-crossing computer, Elizabeth must match wits with a stubbornly idealistic ghost and a chillingly handsome doppelganger in the computer's endless series of mind games. But as the machine learns to become a sentient being, time is ticking away. Elizabeth finds herself falling in love with the ghost trapped in the machine. Together they are pitted in a race against the machine to escape before the Algorithmic Engine shuts down - killing them all. Now all their worlds hang in the balance...