Ballantine, Philippa

Exiled to America, Braun and Brooks follow a series of nautical and aerial disasters to a new threat, known only as the Maestro.

When a fellow passenger aboard Britain's newest hypersteam train vanishes in a bolt of lightning, secret agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun hold the fate of England in their hands as they go up against a fiendishly clever foe.

Eliza D. Braun, an agent of Victorian England's clandestine Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, disagrees with the organization's decision not to investigate the appearance of corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone, and drags her timid partner, Wellington Books, into a perilous quest to keep an evil brotherhood from enslaving all Britons.