****2018 Alberta Book of the Year & Prix Aurora Finalist*****
A mysterious message from a midnight duelist sends fashion reporter Maddie Hatter to New York's finest parasol dueling academy, where she foils a daring daylight kidnapping & ends up undercover in a Gilded Age mansion. Soon she's up to her lace gloves in social teas, industrial intrigues, and irrepressible street urchins. But when she comes face to beard with a powerful figure from her past, everything she struggled to earn is in jeopardy.
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"Spirited heroines, secret identities, engaging orphans, dueling parasols and gadgets galore!"
"another well-crafted, fast-paced mystery laden with intrigue; a romp through steampunk New York"
"this world of steam-driven machinery, inventions, airships, clockwork-type animated birds seems as real as our own"
Winner of the Canadian Crime Writing Award of Excellence and the Alberta Book of the Year, she’s been a finalist for both the Prix Aurora and the UK Debut Dagger. Her short fiction won the Calgary Crime Writers Award, the Bony Pete/Bloody Words award, and was 3x bridesmaid for the Great Canadian Story prize. She lives in a vine-covered cottage between two rivers, keeping cats and secrets. Find her on:
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