The Inventor's Secret

In "The Inventor’s Secret," the first book in a new YA steampunk series by Andrea Cremer, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees navigate the perils of life on the fringes of Britain’s vast industrial empire. Living hand-to-mouth while evading the Imperial Labor Gatherers, their fragile existence is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious new exile with no memory of his past. Set in an alternate nineteenth-century North America where the Revolutionary War never occurred, this action-packed adventure explores the dark future threatening those who strive for freedom from the empire’s oppressive Machineworks.