num_pages: 201
description: Maria Isabella Boyds success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work and now her employment options are slim. Exiled widowed and on the brink of povertyshe reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isnt pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentialsessentials which must be delivered to Louisville Kentucky without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave whos been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent leaving a trail of broken banks stolen war machines and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now its Marias job to go get him.Hes dangerous quarry and shes a dangerous woman but when forces conspire against them both they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody somewhere is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.
language: English
title: Clementine
publisher: Subterranean Press