Full of magic, mystery, and romance, an enchanting steampunk fantasy debut in the bestselling vein of Trudi Canavan and Gail Carriger.

Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened.

Suddenly, she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers--the Queen's spies and assassins--and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets. But the danger is only beginning, for Octavia discovers that the deadly conspiracy aboard the airship may reach the crown itself.

Author: Beth Cato
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 09/16/2014
Series: Clockwork Dagger Novel #1
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.33w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780062313843


Award: 2015 Locus Awards Nominee - First Novel


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/07/2014
Romantic Times 09/01/2014 pg. 99 - Excellent
Library Journal 08/01/2014 pg. 71
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2014
New York Times Book Review 10/26/2014 pg. 19

About the Author
Cato, Beth: -

Nebula Award-nominated author Beth Cato hails from Hanford, California, but currently writes and bakes cookies in a lair west of Phoenix, Arizona. She's the author of the Clockwork Dagger duology and the Blood of Earth trilogy, plus scores of other short stories and poems across a multitude of publications. She shares her household with a hockey-loving husband, a numbers-obsessed son, and three feline overlords.