Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all the London vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.
While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with pesto.
By:
Gail Carriger Imprint: Orbit Books Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 3 Dimensions:
Height: 197mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 250g ISBN:9781841499734 ISBN 10: 1841499730 Series:Parasol Protectorate Pages: 320 Publication Date:28 June 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Ms. Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning.