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The Perilous Journey of the Much-Too-Spontaneous Girl
(The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl #2)
by Leigh Statham
by Leigh Statham
YA Steampunk
Paperback & ebook, 297 pages
September 20th 2016 by Month9BooksLady Marguerite Vadnay and her trusty automaton, Outil, have settled into life in New France rather well. Marguerite is top of the 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 as usual, Marguerite’s plans endanger the lives of those she holds dear— only this time no one else is going to save them. As Marguerite and Outil set off on a rescue mission they may not return from, she 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 soldiers.
Other Books in the Series
The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl
(The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl #1)
by Leigh Statham
by Leigh Statham
YA Steampunk
Paperback & ebook, 297 pages
March 17th 2015 by Month9BooksLady 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 her 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 a strange land.
"The writing is solid and the world-building – that clever combination of historical detail and Ms. Statham’s imagination – is excellent."~ The Australia Times Books
Read an Excerpt
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CHAPTER
1, Part 3
Marguerite
sighed audibly, realizing that she’d held her breath during the
entire launch. She eased her controls to the right and the thrusters
kicked in, propelling her forward and to the right.
This
was amazing.
“Yes!”
she cried out to the endless blue sky in front of her.
The
controls felt so right in her hands. She began to execute more
maneuvers. The tiny ship felt like an extension of her own body. She
dove to the left, steered it back up, turned tight to the right,
centripetally swinging her own compartment in the opposite direction.
She
laughed. What a thrill! Months of study and hard work, tiny rooms and
terrible food—this was completely worth it.
A
flock of birds flew past her, swirling around, welcoming her. They
dove and skimmed the surface of the St. Lawrence River, then swooped
back up along the edge of a brick building.
“That
looks like fun,” she said to herself.
Laying
on the controls, she took the little ship in a steep dive toward the
aerstrip. Her heart floated in her chest, her breath caught in her
throat, and she giggled with delight as the ship responded to her
demand and swooped back up. It leveled off like the birds, just in
time for the envelope to catch on a breeze and be blown into the
windsock tower.
Before
she could call for help, Marguerite was whipped around the tower, her
envelop caught in the trusses. She banged into one pylon and then
another, the glass around her shattered, tearing at her exposed
cheeks and nose. She cried out and braced herself for impact with the
ground, her giggles from the moment before were now cries for help.
Leigh Statham was raised in the wilds of rural Idaho, but found her heart in New York City. She worked as a waitress, maid, artist, math teacher, nurse, web designer, art director, thirty-foot inflatable pig and mule wrangler before she settled down in the semi-quiet role of wife, mother and writer. She resides in North Carolina with her husband, four children, five chickens and two suspected serial killer cats.
Leigh is also a founder of QuantumFairyTales.com and is currently serving a life sentence there as senior editor and gnome driver. She loves all things sparkly and strange that go bump in the night.
Tour Schedule
September 11th: Launch
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September 18th: Grand Finale
Tour Giveaway
• 1 winner will win signed copies of The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl and The Perilous Journey of the Much-Too-Spontaneous Girl plus some awesome Steampunk goggles (US only)
• Ends September 23rd
