The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel

Pip Ballantine · Tee Morris

May 2012 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

In the steampunk adventure The Janus Affair, authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris carry readers back to an alternate history Edwardian England.

Hang onto your bowler hats, agents Books and Braun of Britain’s top-secret Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences are back.

Suffragettes are inexplicably disappearing in flashes of lightning, and the brainy, intrepid Mr. Books and his partner, the fearless, lovely, weapons-loving Eliza Braun, must get to the bottom of the nefarious matter—while confronting high-flying assassins, a traitorous turncoat, and the Queen of the Underworld herself.

“Provides action, mystery, undercurrents of a personal nature and a pace that is sure to keep a reader’s interest. The blend of story, characters, action, mystery, and humor worked really well. The combination of Eliza Braun’s tough, opinionated exterior and her soft interior with Wellington Books’ bookish, somewhat fumbling exterior and his hidden depths is a wonderful dynamic.” —Night Owl Reviews (Top Pick)

The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novels

Phoenix Rising (#1)

The Janus Affair (#2)

Dawn’s Early Light (#3)

The Diamond Conspiracy (#4)

The Ghost Rebellion (#5)

Operation: Endgame (#6)

Ratings and reviews

I'm a sucker for great world-building and this has it in spades. Shadowy villains, characters that break at least a bit from the usual tropes. All sorts of fun. Is it intellectual or deep? Not really, but it's a hell of a ride.

Loved it, will definitely purchase the first book and the third that is to be out soon!

About the author

Born in New Zealand, Philippa (Pip) Ballantine has always had her head in a book. A corporate librarian for thirteen years, she has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library and Information Science. She is New Zealand's first podcast novelist and has produced four podiobooks. Many of these have been shortlisted for the Parsec Awards, and she has won a Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is also the author of Geist and the soon-to-be-published Spectyr. While New Zealand calls, currently Philippa calls America home. While Tee Morris began his writing career with Dragon Moon Press's 2002 historical epic fantasy Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana, it is his podcast of that book and works such as Podcasting for Dummies and All a Twitter that have earned him the distinction as one of the pioneers of social media. With Phoenix Rising, Tee returns to where he prefers to be—his imagination. When he is not there, Tee lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his five cats and one daughter, all of whom have him very well-trained.