'n entertaining romp in a richly imaginative setting. Readers will be drawn to future installments.'- VOYA, starred review The characters are interesting and well developed. Andrea has always loved writing and has never stopped writing, but she only recently plunged into the deep end of the pool that is. She spent her childhood daydreaming and roaming the forests and lakeshores of Northern Wisconsin. She gives readers a fantastical world with mechanical wonders and an opulent vintage setting. Andrea Cremer also known as Andrea Robertson, is the author of the internationally bestselling Nightshade series. * 'Cremer.creates an inventive blend of steampunk and alternative history in this new series. Perfect for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan and Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines. The Inventor’s Secret is the first book of a YA steampunk series set in an alternate nineteenth-century North America where the Revolutionary War never took place and the British Empire has expanded into a global juggernaut propelled by marvelous and horrible machinery.

When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp he brings new dangers with him and secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled has to live free of the bonds of the empire’s Machineworks. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health (at least when they can find enough food and avoid the Imperial Labor Gatherers) and each other.

In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Synopsis: New from Andrea Cremer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightshade novels, comes an action-packed alternate-history steampunk adventure.

The Inventor's Secret by Andrea Cremer