Ironskin (Ironskin, #1)
(fantasy, alternate history > steampunk)
Nebula Award nominee 2012.
An enchanting historical fantasy set in the early 1900s, in the aftermath of a war between humans and the fey
Jane Eliot wears an iron mask.
It's
the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great
War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain — the ironskin.
When
a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a
“delicate situation” — a child born during the Great War — Jane is certain
the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.
Teaching the
unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn't
expect to fall for the girl's father, the enigmatic artist Edward
Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her scars and by his
parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio... and come out
as beautiful as the fey.
Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just
as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what
if neither of these things are true? Step by step Jane unlocks the
secrets of a new life — and discovers just how far she will go to become
whole again.
Total ratings: 1
Tina Connolly lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and brand-new baby boy. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Highlights Magazine, and the anthology Unplugged: Year’s Best Online SF 2008. Her YA dystopia play, Witebox, will premiere in Portland in 2013. Connolly is a frequent reader for Escape Pod and Podcastle, and works as a face painter, which means a glitter-filled house is an occupational hazard. Ironskin is her first novel.
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