The Flight To Brassbright (The Brassbright Chronicles Book 1)

Constance is a wild, stubborn young girl growing up poor in a small industrial town. But beneath her thread-worn exterior beats the heart of a dreamer and a wordsmith. She feeds her hunger for reading by picking the lock on the local bookstore late at night to enjoy her own private reading room. But at age twelve, she€s orphaned. With no relatives to take her in, the local authorities scheme to take charge of the bewildered girl€s life. Running away to join the circus€"like kids do in adventure books€"seems like such a brilliant idea€¦ or is it?

That was six long years ago. Now, Constance is eighteen, fed up with the constraints of life under the big-top, and despairing for her future. She€s ready to dust off her old dreams, but first she€s going to need another cunning escape plan.

Can a young, newly-freed woman travel the road to her dreams and a place to call home? Step back in time to 1895 and take a wild, occasionally hilarious ride with Constance and the friends she meets along the way, as she travels the dirt roads and blue skies of a country called Industralia. Her journey winds through towns and cities bursting with creative eccentrics, high-flying airships, dazed automatons, brilliantly cracked inventors and more than a few kindred spirits. With allies like these, what could possibly go wrong?