An ambitious young milliner. A shy noblewoman fleeing an arranged marriage. Love is a risk neither can afford.Solange doesn't have time for love. She's too busy working her way up in the Parisian millinery trade. Her goal: to become rich and lift her family out of poverty. So when a beautiful aristo whirls into the millinery fascinated by hat making, Solange isn't interested. Or so she tells herself.Louise-Marie hates the fancy parties she's dragged to at Versaille...

1881: The electric lights of Paris have been extinguished.The Naturalist revolution is over. Adelaide was on the losing side. Once the Royal Scientist Doctor for the now-dead cyborg monarchs of France, she's now a fugitive, hiding from the new king's Police Sécrète.Pregnant and alone, she seeks refuge in a Parisian hospital but things have changed there too. What was once a cathedral of Science is now a bastion of ignorance and superstition.The battlefield veterans ...

Paris 1880, the City of Electric LightClockwork nobles of the Court promenade through the halls of Versailles, while Watcher spheres and cyborg police menace people in the streets of Paris.Adelaide, the Royal Scientist Doctor, works frantically on an automaton designed to replace the failing sovereigns, but can it be ready in time to save the monarchy?In the cafes of Montmartre, Henri paints the common people chafing under the reign of the Augmented monarchs and dre...

She loathes him but the cult beckons.1908, the height of the British Empire. Clara's autonomy is shattered when her long-absent husband summons her to join him at his eerie sect's headquarters, insulated on a sparsely inhabited island in the Bahamas.After a harrowing sea voyage, Clara and her children disembark into an unfamiliar landscape and climate. The children explore the marvels and mysteries of Andros Island and develop friendships with a Bahamian family, while Clara...

Some secrets are hidden in ruins. Others are hidden inside us.In Remnants, long-buried worlds reopen and forgotten truths rise to the surface. A locket unlocks possibility. A sister challenges the rules of death. Gods hedge their answers, fae twist their bargains, relics hum with old power, and even lost memories refuse to stay silent.Across the gamut of speculative fiction, these stories follow women who uncover what was buried—whether by time, by power, or by choice—and m...