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****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.

"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"