The Earl of Brass

Kara Jorgensen

Jun 2014 · The Ingenious Mechanical Devices Book 1 · Fox Collie Publishing

About this ebook

A fantastical Victorian adventure perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, and Jules Verne.

Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London's aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, but the craftsman isn’t quite what he expected.

Fenice Brothers Prosthetics is in trouble. Hadley’s brother is dead, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and finish what he started. When clients begin turning her away, she fears she will fail until she crosses paths with the enigmatic Lord Sorrell. In exchange for a new arm, he offers her a chance at adventure in the deserts of Palestine.

Beneath the Negev’s sand lies something far more precious than potsherds or bones. A long lost crystal city has been found that could change Eilian and Hadley’s world forever, but they aren’t the only ones who know its secrets. Will they make it out alive or will they, too, be buried beneath the desert sands?

Ratings and reviews

An interesting plot, well in the realms of steampunk adventure. Enthusiastic storytelling, with mostly modern sensibilities. I only wished for more thorough editing; there were a lot of unassigned pronouns, which caused confusion often enough to throw me out of the narrative more than I liked.

Don't want to give out apoiler alerts. So let's just story was thrilling to the end.

Could not put it down, absolutely riveting.

About the author

Kara Jorgensen (she/they) is a queer, nonbinary oddball with a penchant for all things antiquated, morbid, or just plain strange. While in college, she realized she no longer wanted to be Victor Frankenstein but instead wanted to write like Mary Shelley and thus abandoned her future career in science for writing. She melds her passions through her books and received an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing in 2016. When not writing, she can be found hanging out with her dogs watching period dramas or trying to convince her students to cite their sources.

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