cleardark
★★★★★ Whimsical Historical Fiction!
in the United States on November 25, 2025
Kindle
A richly textured world where 1890s Baltimore leaps off the page—complete with corsets, cyclones, and counterfeit gold mines—while anchoring the chaos in the deeply human story of Jim Eberton, a reluctant heir chasing freedom on two wheels. The prose crackles with wit, from Nelly’s burlesque banter to Benny’s curmudgeonly engineering wisdom, and every digression (be it a Confederate crow-feather quill or a shipboard birth at the dawn of the 20th century) is a delightful rabbit hole worth tumbling down. By turns hilarious, poignant, and wildly inventive, this episodic gem leaves you hungry for the next installment, jellybean-black tongue and all.
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