num_pages: 230
description:  Steam rising. California Territory 1848. Gold has been discovered emptying the village of San Francisco of its male population. Steam-powered technology is still in its infancy. At 19 Englishwoman Sensibility Grey has spent her life tinkering in her fathers laboratory and missing the finer points of proper British life. But when her father dies in penury shes shipped to San Francisco and to the protection of an uncle shes never met.The California Territory may hold more dangers than even the indomitable Miss Grey can manage. Pursued by government agents a secret society and the enigmatic Mr. Krieg Night Sensibility must decipher the clockwork secrets in her fathers final journal unaware shell change the world forever.Magic mayhem and mechanicals. STEAM AND SENSIBILITY is a pre-Steampunk novel of paranormal suspense set in the wild west of the California gold rush. 
language: English
title: Steam and Sensibility
publisher: Misterio Press