The Ratten Expedition

<p>In an alternate-reality world where the American Civil War lasted ten years technology has advanced rapidly. A decade after the guns of the South were silenced the embers of war still burn white hot. English Canada and French Mexico still snarl at the Union but a new terror faces the country.</p><p> </p><p>Former army major John Morton now a museum professor is recruited by his old army comrade now a Catholic priest to find missing parishioners. As they will learn the solution to the riddle is only the start of a cross-county adventure. Recruited to join an eclectic undercover government team Civil War veteran Morton joins a priest a beautiful female assassin a black tinker and an orphaned girl in the race to find a way to preserve the Union. Can Morton survive long enough to stop a pair of mad renegade scientists hell-bent on the destruction of the Union?</p><p> </p><p>The Ratten Expedition unfurls a steampunk adventure that begins in the East and travels to the Wild West.</p>