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Jenny Taylor’s past, present, and future violently collide at 4 a.m. on a cold November morning. Her abusive ex-husband has found her and vows to make her new life a living hell - starting with a brutal assault in the alley behind her workplace. Two mysterious figures appear and drive him away, but they, too, have not found Jenny by chance. Marquessa King and her mentor Christopher Stefanov just discovered a terrifying truth about Jenny.

Four remarkable women plan a night out at an academic soiree. When it is cancelled, they are momentarily at a loss. In Victorian London, there is no respectable establishment that would admit an unescorted lady, or group of ladies, in the evening. But there is one place where such women are welcome: Tuppence Tommy’s, tucked back off Drury Lane. A haven for the discrete, the decadent, and the desperate.

Ian Rollins has been thrown to the lions, arrested by the German Empire on trumped-up charges of piracy and expecting a death sentence. Just getting to the trial will take all of his strength and determination as he struggles to survive in a damaged dirigible some 20,000 feet in the air. He's forced to use his engineering skill to repair the German airship, not to save his own life, but because the Germans also hold the clever Miss Danjella Tesla, a talented engineer in her own right.

Under the command of Ian Rollins, the HMS Thunderbolt has been playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the Kriegsmarine off the Cape, but their tense standoff with the Germans turns unexpectedly to a tense alliance after they are ordered to aid in the rescue of a disaster-stricken German Antarctic expedition. The boat is forced to operate with merely a skeleton crew and to navigate with experimental equipment beneath the ice. Can they even locate the island before the survivors succumb to the frigid land?

In the catacombs beneath Prague, adventurer alchemists race against a deadly foe for what they think is the ultimate source of knowledge.

The British Empire is in danger of collapse and teeters on the brink of war with the Kaiser Reich. Spies and saboteurs play at deadly games in the British shipyards as each side seeks naval superiority. Ian Rollins is collateral damage in their shadow war. The "accident" and his grievous injuries are about to bring his naval career to an ignominious end.