Carriger, Gail

In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.

In an alternate England of 1851, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her friends, her school, and all of London when she must put her espionage training to the test to thwart an evil Picklemen plot.

In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.

In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.

In an alternate England of 1851, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her friends, her school, and all of London when she must put her espionage training to the test to thwart an evil Picklemen plot.

Queen Victoria dismisses Lady Maccon from the Shadow Council, Lord Akeldama unexpectedly leaves town, and when Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating that all of London's vampires want her dead, she flees to Italy in search of the mysterious Templars.

Alexia Tarabotti, a woman without a soul who is viewed as unable to marry, works with werewolf Lord Conall Maccon to clear her name after she accidently kills a vampire and is suspected of the disappearances of other undead members of high society.

In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.

Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Macon, is summoned away from domestic bliss with her young child and husband to Egypt for an audience with the Queen of the Vampires in Alexandria, Egypt, where she is tasked with solving the problem of the God-Breaker plague.

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless and eight months pregnant, is tasked with solving another mystery when a ghost threatens the life of the queen, but clues force her to delve into her own husband's past and a plague of zombie porcupines further exacerbate the situation.