Hot Air and Silk Skirts: A Pearl Whyte Adventure

By Charles Reeves

In 1860 women aren't allowed to vote, much less wear a uniform and captain an airship. But nineteen year-old socialite Pearl Whyte was raised by a decorated airship officer and dreams of becoming an airman like her father. Her opportunity arrives in tragedy when the newly elected president is assassinated while under the protection of the Cerberus and Pearl's father. To uncover the truth behind the assassination, Pearl must escape the long arm of the Internal Security Bureau and their detainment camps and avenge her father. She is helped by her fianc? and together they take to the air above and declare war on the I.S.B. and the Union government. But it is only when Pearl comes face to face with failure and her many losses that she will discover if she has the courage to truly become the hero she has always wanted to be.Pearl is haunted and hunted as she tries to make her own way in a man's world. Steam powered hydrogen gasbag airships sail the skies above the country even as steam wagons and coaches chug along the country's cobblestone streets and dirt paths. The country is restless with the threat of war; the industrial north seeks to expand its factories while the agriculture based south seeks to hold onto its traditions. When steam powered progress meets horse and buggy traditions conflict is inevitable. When the government uses its airships and rifles to force defenseless civilians into silence and submission, the explosion of cannon and the cold steel of the cutlass are inevitable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469959100
• ISBN13: 9781469959108
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"