num_pages: 297
description: Lady Marguerite lives a life most 17th-century French girls can only dream of: money designer dresses suitors and a secure future. Except she cant quite commit to a life of dull luxury and she suspects she may be falling for her best friend Claude a common smithy in the family's steam forge. When Claude leaves for New France in search of a better life Marguerite decides to follow him and test her suspicions of loveonly the trip proves to be more harrowing than she anticipated. Love adventure and restitution await her if she can survive the voyage.Based on the true story of The Daughters of the King Louis the XIVs social program to settle the wilds of Canada with women of noble birth Marguerites steampunk adventure follows in the footsteps of nearly one thousand brave women and girls who were rewarded handsomely for trekking across the pirate infested Atlantic to a strange land.The writing is solid and the world-building  that clever combination of historical detail and Ms. Stathams imagination  is excellent. The Australia Times Books
language: English
title: The Perilous Journey of the Not So Innocuous Girl
publisher: Month9Books