If a wedding won’t stop a war, what will?

Gloria Meriwether-Astor’s perception in doing the proper thing has carried her across the world and through risks that would possess felled a lesser woman. She thought that if she wedded the dashing Captain Fremont, she could approach the Viceroy of the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias with impunity. She could convince the prince to avoid the battle their fathers began, and then she could return to Philadelphia with her spouse, her conscience very clear about Fields of Platinum: A Steampunk Adventure Novel at last. Sadly, belief and actuality are two various things. The prince agrees to her proposal on one condition-that she annul her marriage and be his wife rather!

Every woman includes a threshold she’ll not combination. Gloria has arrive to like her riverboat captain, and the price tag on peace is simply too high. But when the bad stalking the pleasurable gardens of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa claims its victim, enough time for perception has ended and enough time to act-daringly, outrageously-is at hand. Do the witches contain the essential to a way out of the trap?

All Gloria must do is consider up the crown of roses and play for the best stakes. All she has to do can be end up being the iron dragon … and begin a battle of her personal.