(I searched, but I couldn't find that this information have been posted before. The only mention I found was that it was free on Smashwords 6 months ago, or something like that, which it isn't anymore.)
I just discovered that Joseph Robert Lewis offers the Burning Sky, book #1 in the Halycon triology for free on
his webpage in epub, mobi and pdf. This made me happy, since I want to read more steampunk, and the series sounds cool. Not to mention it have been on my to TBB list for a long time
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Taziri had a promising career as an airship engineer and inventor until an explosion tore through the airfield, incinerating the fleet and killing most of the Air Corps. Now, Taziri is the only pilot left to help the marshals chase the killers across the skies of Marrakesh.
The investigation ranges across the country on steamships, atop racing locomotives, and into ancient tombs. Taziri discovers a corrupt doctor performing hideous experiments, hiding lethal weapons inside the killers’ bodies using Taziri’s own inventions. And with assassins in every shadow and riots on every street corner, Taziri quickly learns to defend herself as only an engineer can – with her machines.
The marshals have one other problem: they’re men. And in a country where women control the government, the military, and the most powerful industries in the world, Taziri has a clear advantage. But despite all her efforts, her country’s only hope for survival may be an exiled Incan princess riding a giant eagle, a dashing swordsman who talks to ghosts, and Taziri’s airship Halcyon plummeting out of the burning sky.
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