A Vintage Find

My romantic dinner interrupted by a telegram. A missing professor. My treacherous brother and the man who destroyed our family. And I just volunteered to sail into a deadly jungle with a woman I barely know.

I'd finally arranged a proper dinner with Miss Mable McTavish at Die Goldene Blume. Candlelight. Wine. The perfect opportunity to express my entirely professional appreciation for her botanical expertise.

Then the telegram arrived.

Professor McTavish, lost in the Equatorial Zone while searching for a legendary amulet. Missing for weeks. Mable looked at me with those blue eyes, and I instantly volunteered to help.

Now I'm aboard the steamship Steele Cog Dream, sailing toward steaming jungles, hostile tribes, and ancient mysteries. Accompanying me: Mable, whose courage is matched only by her alarming tendency to charge into danger, and Molly Dwires, a widow who seems to have misunderstood my intentions about Yagarian combat techniques.

Worse still, my estranged brother Harold is at the dig site. Working alongside Henry Comb—the man who destroyed our family. They claim to want to help find Professor McTavish, but I suspect their motives are less than pure.

A steampunk adventure featuring lost temples, family secrets, mechanical guardians, and a retired spy who's discovering that rescuing professors is far more complicated than solving murders.