It's aliiiiiiiive! New York Times bestselling authors of My Lady
Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale
of the one and only Mary Shelley.
Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary
Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father's bookstore,
waiting for an extraordinary idea that'll inspire a work worthy of her
parentage--and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau,
Percy Shelley.
Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her
dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions
lie far beyond the arts--in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Alas,
no matter how precise Ada's calculations, there's always a man willing
to claim her ingenious ideas as his own.
Pan, a.k.a. Practical Automaton Number One, is Ada's greatest idea yet:
a machine that will change the world, if only she can figure out how to
make him truly autonomous . . . or how to make him work at all.
When fate connects our two masterminds, Mary and Ada learn that they are
fae--magical people with the ability to make whatever they imagine
become real. But when their dream team results in a living, breathing,
thinking PAN, Mary and Ada find themselves hunted by a mad scientist
who won't stop until he finds out how they made a real boy out of spare
parts.
With comic genius and a truly electrifying sense of adventure, Cynthia
Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows continue their campaign to turn the
classics on their head in this YA fantasy that's perfect for fans of
Frankenstein and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue.
