Devices Brightly Shining
A Steampunk Christmas Novella
The Magnificent Devices Series: Book #9
- By: Shelley Adina
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Description
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meDreadful relations, high expectations,And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.It is the event of the season-on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the prince consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fiancee, Alice Chalmers, to London to attend and to meet his family-people who cannot see past her flight boots to the woman who stands by his side as an equal.While adjusting to life as a newlywed, seeing to her business affairs, and preparing the Mopsies to return to school in Munich, Lady Claire is settling into her new life with joy. When two young cousins of Gloria Meriwether-Astor arrive in London, the inhabitants of Carrick House are happy to welcome them. Sydney and Hugh Meriwether-Astor are completing a world tour, and the Dunsmuirs' ball is just the thing to cap it off in splendid fashion. But Maggie learns that Sydney has his own plans for the family business-and they don't include cutting off the supply of arms to the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias, as Gloria is determined to do.It's time for someone with a spine, an airship of her own, and reasons to put fields of air between herself and decisions about her future to pull up ropes and warn Gloria that betrayal is closer than she thinks.
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Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
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Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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Devices Brightly Shining
By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meDreadful relations, high expectations,And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.It is the event of the season-on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the prince consort... Read more »
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Fields of Air
By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Her father may have sacrificed his own life to save hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is finding it difficult to forgive him. After all, how many young ladies of her acquaintance will inherit wealth, beauty, and a legacy of arms dealing? Now the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias is about to declare war on the Texican Territory... Read more »
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Fields of Air
By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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Fields of Iron
By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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Fields of Gold
By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
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