This Strange Engine
Man - Magic - Machine
In Victorian-era Campden, a machine-created portal has opened a passageway to a magical realm. Magic flows in the town unlike anywhere else in the British Empire...or the world...and has created unique opportunities. The magic is powerful and, for humans, extremely addictive.
Alexander Asherton, Ash to his friends, has fallen prey to the alluring promises of the magic. In his fallen state, the only employment he finds is with a clandestine organization that provides him with his life-sustaining magic in exchange for his thieving services. The arrangement works well enough for both parties until Ash receives an assignment that is all-too personal: recover a magical item in the possession of his ex-wife.
Thus is he thrown into a world of intrigue and control, where the machinations of science are combined with the sorceries of magic. The maestro of such twisted possibilities is the enigmatic and dangerous Duke Schaever, whose secrets Ash begins to uncover. It is those secrets the Duke will go to any length to protect - including eliminating any who get in his way!
The first book of a Steampunk - Dark Fantasy trilogy from the Dragon Award nominated and Imadjinn Award winning author!
Philip Ligon
International Bestselling and Dragon Award nominated author Philip Ligon fell in love with fantasy when he tried to read The Sword of Shannara for a book report in high school. Though he had to choose a different book for the report, he was forever hooked on epic adventures, quests, and fantastic realms. He proceeded to read every Terry Brooks book he could find, and soon discovered the works of Raymond Feist, Michael Moorcock, and threw in a heavy dose of Orson Scott Card, to name a few.
Philip Ligon lives in north Alabama, where he sometimes imagines the hills, valleys, and rivers are part of a mysterious land where pirates and rogues are hiding their airships.
Strange Engine Series
Strange Engine Series consists of three books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
