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The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl

This brand new edition of the book contains updated historical facts, an amazing new cover, and extra punk for your steam machines!

Lady Marguerite lives a life most 17th-century French girls can only dream of: money, designer dresses, suitors, and a secure future. Except she can't quite commit to a life of dull luxury and she suspects she may be falling for her best friend, Claude, a common smithy in the family's steam forge. When Claude leaves for New France in search of a better life, Marguerite decides to follow him and test her suspicions of love--only the trip proves to be more harrowing than she anticipated. Love, adventure, and restitution await if she can survive the voyage.

Based on the true story of The Daughters of the King, Louis the XIV's social program to settle the wilds of Canada with women of noble birth, Marguerite's steampunk adventure follows in the footsteps of nearly one thousand brave women and girls who were rewarded handsomely for trekking across the pirate infested Atlantic to create a home in a strange land. 

The Perilous Journey of the Much-Too-Spontaneous Girl 

Lady Marguerite Vadnay and her trusty automaton, Outil, have settled into life in New France rather well. Marguerite is the top of her class at flight school, and her future as an aerpilot is nearly secure. She has everything she wants- except a commission on the pirate hunting dirigible, The Renegade. Using every card in her aristocratic arsenal, Marguerite wiggles her way onto the finest warship France has to offer. But once again, her plans endanger the lives of those she holds dear-only this time no one else is going to save them. As she and Outil set off on a rescue mission they may not return from, Marguerite finally realizes it's time to reorder her cogs.

This steampunk adventure is littered with facts from The Golden Age of Piracy and follows (not too closely) some of the lives and adventures of the brave men and women who sailed the seas as privateers, pirates, and stowaways. 

Daughter4254 used to think life in a community where art, music and names are outlawed would suffocate her creative spirit until she is left to rot in prison and realizes there is far worse.

When she meets Thomas, a fellow inmate, who tells stories of the mythical mountain colonies where people have names and the arts thrive, she finds a shred of hope. Together they plot an escape, knowing they ll die if they fail. Or worse, their consciousness will be taken by the MindWipe, leaving their bodies free for government use.

When nothing goes as planned, Daughter4254 must choose between using her mother’s secrets of the rebellion to better the world she hates and following Thomas to the quiet life of freedom she has always craved.

When her head is artificially filled with more information than she knows what to do with, Daughter4254 finds she can’t trust her own thoughts, much less the words of anyone else.

Rumors come creeping in the night, and she finds herself faced with a choice she thought she’d left far behind when she’d walked out the doors of the compound.

After a narrow escape from wipers, Imani faces an uncertain future. The mountain people, Hamen’s men, and the Leaders are on the brink of war, and Imani may be turning into the very wipers she’d escaped. The key to peace rests in Imani’s artificial memory—if only she can figure out how to access the information.

Meanwhile, the Secondary School is falling apart in the wake of Imani’s disappearance, and Marian has positioned herself at the head of a secret group of students seeking more than what is of use. When echoes of war reach her inner circle, it’s up to Marian to save her friends and what’s left of the community.

Both girls are working toward the same goal, but unless they can somehow connect and share information, the chances of their survival and the survival of the ones they love, are slim. Together, but on separate paths, Imani and Marian take on their dystopian world in the gripping conclusion to the Daughter 4254 series.