Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well.
Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. With Darcy twins Jules and Simon poised for their own adventures, Ciotta (the Cupcake Club books) has the start of a delectable series. Her Sky Cowboy by Beth Ciotta: 9780451238474 : Books Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Limiting herself to one subgenre does not. The two pursue an airborne quest for Leonardo da Vinci's fabled ornithopter while fending off sky pirates employed by dastardly and lascivious Lord Bingham, cavorting through a hectic skytown pubcrawl, and putting lovemaking at the top of Amelia's "must-do-or-die" list. Storytelling comes naturally to award-winning author Beth Ciotta. She promptly crashes into an encounter with Tucker. HER SKY COWBOY The Glorious Victorious Darcys, Book 1 BETH CIOTTA ISBN 9780451238474 6 November 2012 Penguin. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metaland not a penny to their names. Spunky airship mechanic Amelia Darcy is smitten with an obsession for flight and a longtime yen for Tucker Gentry, the Sky Cowboy, an American penny-dreadful antihero of "notorious and scandalous reputation." After Amelia's father blows himself and the family fortune to smithereens while attempting to travel to the moon, Amelia abandons her tizzied mother, leaps upon her homemade kitecycle, and tears off to win a hefty scientific prize. Her Sky Cowboy Beth Ciotta 3.48 800 ratings129 reviews Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Contemporary romance author Ciotta's first steampunk series blasts off with this exhilarating riff on bodice-ripping romance, hurling 20th-century technology into an alternate Victorian England.
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