![]() ![]() Agent: Amy Moore-Benson, AMB Literary Management. Buttressed by a helpful glossary and hinting strongly at a third volume featuring bionic undercover agent Jules, this audacious fantasy romance will have readers goggle-eyed and thirsting for more. Cleverly mixing Simon and Willie’s chase for glory with interludes of knee-buckling amatory rapture and hissable flashes of archvillain Lord Bingham, Ciotta rockets raunchily along to a spectacular finale with cameos from earlier characters. but speedily uncorseted into Wilhelmina Goodenough, a Vic-Mod hybrid Freak. He’s first hindered and then besotted by the scandal-sheet newshound Clockwork Canary, initially disguised as boy reporter Willie G. Simon intends to find the original clockwork propulsion system brought by the Mod Peace Rebels from the love-not-war-making 1960s. Incorrigibly ham-handed and irresistibly dishy amateur engineer Simon Darcy is hellbent on restoring the Darcy family’s fame and fortune before his older twin, Jules, can do so. Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. ![]() Ciotta’s second Glorious Victorious Darcys installment (after Her Sky Cowboy) explodes into the middle of Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in an alternate England warped by time-traveling hippies. Her Sky Cowboy by Beth Ciotta: 9780451238474 : Books Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. ![]()
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