Author: | E.K. Johnston |
Genre: | Historical Fiction |
File Name: | that-inevitable-victorian-thing-by-e-k-johnston.epub |
Original Title: | That Inevitable Victorian Thing |
Creator: | E.K. Johnston |
Language: | en-US |
Identifier: | 9781101994573 |
Publisher: | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
Date: | 1506963600 |
File Size: | 822222.848 |
Set in a near-future world where the British Empire was preserved, not by the cost of blood and theft but by effort of repatriation and promises kept, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.
Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendant of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history two centuries earlier. The imperial practice of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage like her mother before her, but before she does her duty, she’ll have one summer incognito in a far corner of empire. In Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire’s greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir apparent to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an unusual bond and maybe a one in a million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process —just like the first Queen Victoria.