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Welcome to the Steampunk World of Regency, where the power of steam has already transferred from the age of unsatisfactory experiments to the first country-spanning railways and boats that no longer sail at the whims of weather. Roberta Stephenson is the daughter of the "dad of railways"--a gal almost brought up in the engine works and, through her experience and education in the innovative halls of Miss Mather's Academy for Girls, fit to become manager and developer at her father's steamship backyard on the Clyde. And Britain needs Roberta's knowledge, for fate nowadays has dealt more kindly with Napoleon, allowing him to extricate the majority of his military from Moscow in 1812, and granting him at least a sketch at Leipzig in 1813. With improvements of the steamships started in France in 1783, he's ready to take yet another gamble to rid himself of the interference of Perfidious Albion, and the island's safeness may be based upon the steam-powered rams Roberta offers to their lordships of the admiralty. Complicating Roberta's professional life are her affectionate suitors: Lord Julian Bond, man about town and admiralty spy; the enigmatic Symington Holmes; and Engineer Lieutenant Alfred Worthington, RN. It seems Roberta is destined to choose one of the gentlemen, but will she choose prudently?
