What if the American Revolution had run on more than muskets and grit?
Spark of Liberty follows siblings Adam and Jemma Watt, the overlooked children of a brilliant, broken inventor, as the Revolution comes to depend on exactly what they can build. Adam finds his place in the sky as a founding aeronaut of the Continental Aerie. Jemma does her father’s engineering work in secret, fighting for recognition the Revolution isn’t in a hurry to give her, until a charming British spy targets her trust, and the invention that could decide the war.
Real historical figures (Franklin, Washington, Priestley, John Paul Jones) share the page with steam engines, phlogiston-powered aeroships, and a Revolution reimagined at the edge of what 18th-century science might almost have been capable of.
Book One of the Steamage Revolutions. The story continues in Flame of Independence.
Readers of Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan and Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century will feel right at home.