Friday Memes: A Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway

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This week I am spotlighting A Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway which is the third book in the Baskerville Affair. These are steampunk mysteries whose heroine is the niece of Sherlock Holmes. Here is the description of this Dec. 31 release:

As part of her devil’s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies’ College of London. However, she’s attending as the Gold King’s pet magician, handcuffed and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes. 

But Evelina’s problems are only part of a larger war. The Baskerville affair is finally coming to light, and the rebels are making their move to wrest power from the barons and restore it to Queen Victoria. Missing heirs and nightmare hounds are the order of the day—or at least that’s what Dr. Watson is telling the press. 

But their plans are doomed unless Evelina escapes to unite her magic with the rebels’ machines—and even then her powers aren’t what they used to be. A sorcerer has awakened a dark hunger in Evelina’s soul, and only he can keep her from endangering them all. The only problem is . . . he’s dead.

Beginning:

"You are not welcome here," said the man in the quietly understated brown suit. "Forgive my blunt speech, but I cannot make it any more plain. Those of us on the faculty have established policies."

Friday 56: 

"Nick has a special navigation tool. Magnus wants it for himself, and what Keating wants, he gets. The Helios is his ship to order."