Deadly Diamond

A conniving con-woman, an eccentric explorer, & airships!

Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands. Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fan mail, vanishes on the trail of a legendary diamond studded mask. Then the baron's mistress flees too, with a handbag full of stolen jewelry and Maddie's most secret papers. To retrieve them she must catch the first airship out of Egypt, risking recognition at every stage of her continent-hopping quest for the baron's story and the sheer satisfaction of exposing that conniving con-woman!

Prix Aurora finalist 2016

"A jewel of a story filled with delightful surprises"

"Like a delightfully vintage game of Clue… Our Heroine is smart, stylish, and determined."

"Filled with intriguing gadgets, fantastical aircraft, exotic locations, interesting characters and even parasol dueling!"