Phillip K. Dick Award Finalist"Steampunk and circus wonder" come together in this "tight and fun" series starring an undercover female detective on the lam in alternate Victorian England (The Washington Post) Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life--as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks, and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better.