The Girl in the Steel Corset
by Kady CrossSeries: Steampunk Chronicles, #1
Release date: 24th May, 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 473 (hardcover copy bought by me)
Summary from Goodreads:
In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one - except the thing inside her...
When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But not all Victorian girls have a darker side that makes them capable of knocking out a full-grown man with a single punch...
Only Griffin King sees the magical darkness inside her that makes Finley special - makes her one of them. The orphaned duke takes her in from the gaslit streets against the wishes of his band of misfits: Emily, who has her own special abilities; Sam, who is part robot; and Jasper, an American cowboy with a shadowy secret.
Griffin’s investigating a criminal called The Machinist - the mastermind behind several recent crimes by automatons. Finley thinks she can help - and finally be a part of something.
