Clementine is Cherie Priest's second Clockwork Century novel - books that take place in an alternate, steampunk history of the Civil War period. Maria Isabella Boyd is a Confederate spy. Or at least she was - now she is too famous to be a spy. So the South has fired her. With nowhere else to go, she is hired on at the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago. Her first assignment in to make sure a delivery makes it to Louisville, Kentucky.
Croggon Beauregard Hainey is an escaped slave who has made a life for himself as a dirigible captain out of Seattle. He stole his ship, Free Crow, fair and square from the army. Now someone has stolen the Free Crow from Hainey, renamed it Clementine as is using it to transport something important to Louisville.
Hainey is determined to get his ship back. Boyd is determined to do well at her new job and possibly capture a notorious escaped slave in the process.
Priest has created a great alternate history for her books. Her characters are compelling and engaging. Her plots are fun and exciting. And her vision of steampunk is accessible and includes some amazing machinery.
Priest, Cherie. (2010). Clementine. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press.
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