My Electric
Empire series is a dark, edgy,
steampunk, gender-flipped retelling of Dr
Jekyll & Mr Hyde, where Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator
in Victorian London, secretly addicted to her father's magic potion and in a
love-hate relationship with her dark side, Lizzie Hyde.
It's a quasi-1860s
steampunk England, where science is strictly regulated and magic is forbidden.
Trouble is, no one really knows where magic ends and science begins. So
anything strange or wonderful is fraught with danger – which makes life very
difficult for Eliza Jekyll, who's trying to forge a respectable career as a
police physician in a time when women doctors were a curiosity at best. And
she's always afraid that Lizzie will burst out without warning.
The new book, The Dastardly Miss Lizzie, is book 3 in
the trilogy. Someone is murdering famous scientists – and Eliza and Lizzie's
father, Mr Hyde, is mixed up in it. Eliza is dealing with troubles in her love
life – is her perfect fiancĂ© secretly a French spy? Does he even love her? What
on earth will she wear to the wedding? – while fending off Lizzie, who has her
own ideas about who she'd like to be
her boyfriend, thanks very much.
So here we go with The Dastardly Miss Lizzie in haiku
meter. With apologies to every real haiku ever written.
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie, haiku-style
Eliza Jekyll
Doctor with
a dark secret
Lizzie Hyde
inside
Crime scene
scientist
Solves
murders with steampunk tools
And her
clockwork dog
Corpses,
stains of blood
What is this
strange residue?
Is the
killer mad?
Corrupt
rulers lie
Burn
scientists for witchcraft
Safety is
fiction
Their thugs
spy and trick
Lucky: one
is her boyfriend
Too good to
be true?
Home is a
refuge
But lonely,
in need of friends
Who will
understand?
Past folly haunts
her
The mistake
she can't undo
A madman
escaped
Love letters
in blood
His whisper
warms her nightmares
A glittering
blade
Drinks
elixir – gulp!
And Lizzie
pops out to play
Not always
welcome
Dark city
awaits
Sensations
forbidden to
Respectable
girls
Yearning for
freedom
To laugh,
exult, love – escape!
This cruel
cage of flesh
Mr. Hyde,
her dad
Roguish ruler
of misfits
On his
crooked throne
Murders
escalate
Is Hyde
guilty? We hope not
Fresh blood
on his hands
No time for
pity
Catch the
killer or be next
And the
world could end
The
Dastardly Miss Lizzie
An
Electric Empire Novel
Book Three
Book Three
Viola
Carr
On sale: 4/18/2017
ISBN: 9780062363121
In the third book in Viola Carr’s
fantastically fun and wonderfully edgy Electric Empire novel, set in the gritty
world of alternate Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll must team up with her
secret other half, Miss Lizzie Hyde, as her world comes crashing to a halt when
a madman begins targeting the city’s most important scientists, and sorcerers
threaten all she holds dear.
About
the Book:
Crime scene physician Eliza
Jekyll is trying to share a life with her rebellious second self, Lizzie Hyde.
But being two people in one body isn’t easy, not when Eliza has a professional
reputation to protect and Lizzie is veering headfirst into a life of debauchery
and crime with an increasingly demented Mr. Hyde. Not to mention the difficulty
of making a respectable marriage with Remy Lafayette--Royal Society
investigator and occasional lycanthrope--while Lizzie enjoys her own dubious
romantic entanglements. And with England on the brink of war, Remy’s secretive
mission in sorcery-riddled Paris grows ever more sinister. Has he been an enemy
agent all along? Or is Eliza finally going mad?
Now, she’s confronted by her most
baffling case yet: an evil genius with a penchant for theatrics is murdering
eminent scientists in the most inexplicable ways. Her investigation uncovers a
murky world of forbidden books, secret laboratories and bleeding-edge science
punishable by death--and a shocking connection to her father’s infamous
experiments. Desperate to learn the truth about her past, she must infiltrate a
cabal of fanatical inventors bent on a discovery that will change the world--or
destroy it.
With London under attack by
sorcery-wielding terrorists, and the Royal Society’s enforcers determined to
bury her evidence for good, Eliza needs all the friends she can get if she’s to
thwart the killer and keep her head. But when Lizzie’s criminal shenanigans get
Eliza fired from the Metropolitan Police, and Remy is implicated in an act of
bloody vengeance he didn’t commit (or did he?), she’s on her own.
Except for wily, resourceful, mercurial
Lizzie. But Lizzie’s got her own life now. And she’ll do anything to keep it.
Even if it means attempting the unspeakable and finding her own body. Even if
it means throwing Eliza to the wolves, and letting the world burn…
About
the Author:
Viola Carr was born in Australia,
but wandered into darkest London one foggy October evening and never found her
way out. She now devours countless history books and dictates fantastical
novels by gaslight, accompanied by classical music and the snoring of her
slumbering cat. She likes steampunk, and thought it would be cool to
investigate wacky crimes with crazy gadgets…just so long as her heroine was the
creator of said wacky gadgets: a tinkerer, edgy, with a dash of mad scientist.
2 comments:
ooo! I like this. Gorgeous covers too.
Love the cover cant wait to read the book I have it in my tbr pile .
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