Cold Stone & Ivy Boxed Set
(2025)(The fourth book in the Empire of Steam series)
A novel by H Leighton Dickson
The gripping COLD STONE & IVY series is now available in a boxed set, with The Ghost Club, The Crown Prince and The Seventh House.
Book 1:Jack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back. The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling, and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable ‘Mad Lord of Lasingstoke’ makes his home. Here, Ivy finds the dead are as dangerous as the living and she is immediately swept into a world of manners, mystery, and supernatural intrigue, uncovering a secret that will lead both her and the Mad Lord back to London and the dark streets of Whitechapel.
Book 2: The Crown Prince is dead, shot in the head. War is coming on iron feet.
The year is 1889 and Austria's Crown Prince Rudolf has been found with a bullet in his brain. Immediately, all eyes are turned to the Empire of Steam’s Mad Lord of Lasingstoke, a notorious ghost hunter and the last man to see the Crown Prince alive. As the first whispers of war cast a preternatural shadow over Europe, an international manhunt is launched to bring the Mad Lord and his clockwork brother to justice. Unfortunately, young criminologist Ivy Savage has written herself into the plot and it takes all of her resourcefulness to keep them one step ahead of the firing squad. From airships over the Black Forest to a stolen ride on the Orient Express, it’s clear that the Gilded Empire is not the only thing hunting the Mad Lord. Ghost horses and iron giants, long-dead saints and an archduchess more cable than flesh - all want something from the de Lacey brothers, not the least of which being the resurrection of the crown prince himself. But Ivy knows that at the heart of it, two lockets alone control the destiny of Empires and the clockwork is ticking as they race back to Vienna and the dangerous labyrinth that lies beneath...
Book 3: The Rules are Different Now. There is only the Horse, the River, the Ice and the End.
The year is 1889 and the world is on the brink of war. After Gilded Crown Prince Rudolf is raised from the dead, 4 unnatural horses are unleashed on Europe, bringing chaos, famine, pestilence and death. Sebastien de Lacey, also known as the Mad Lord of Lasingstoke, has become the Pale Rider, and is making his way inexorably across Europe towards Lonsdale Abbey, a sanitorium north of nowhere. Writer Ivy Savage and physician Christien de Lacey must use all of their wits and resources to beat the Mad Lord to the Empire of Steam, figure out the riddle of the lockets and prevent what could very well be the end of the world. For what the Mad Lord seeks is the elusive Lostlight, a locket sought by all the empires of the world, and they will stop at nothing, even a World War, to procure it. But in order for Ivy to stop this Apocalypse, she must win the battle for Sebastien���s heart or lose the War of the very World.
Genre: Fantasy
Book 1:Jack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back. The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling, and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable ‘Mad Lord of Lasingstoke’ makes his home. Here, Ivy finds the dead are as dangerous as the living and she is immediately swept into a world of manners, mystery, and supernatural intrigue, uncovering a secret that will lead both her and the Mad Lord back to London and the dark streets of Whitechapel.
Book 2: The Crown Prince is dead, shot in the head. War is coming on iron feet.
The year is 1889 and Austria's Crown Prince Rudolf has been found with a bullet in his brain. Immediately, all eyes are turned to the Empire of Steam’s Mad Lord of Lasingstoke, a notorious ghost hunter and the last man to see the Crown Prince alive. As the first whispers of war cast a preternatural shadow over Europe, an international manhunt is launched to bring the Mad Lord and his clockwork brother to justice. Unfortunately, young criminologist Ivy Savage has written herself into the plot and it takes all of her resourcefulness to keep them one step ahead of the firing squad. From airships over the Black Forest to a stolen ride on the Orient Express, it’s clear that the Gilded Empire is not the only thing hunting the Mad Lord. Ghost horses and iron giants, long-dead saints and an archduchess more cable than flesh - all want something from the de Lacey brothers, not the least of which being the resurrection of the crown prince himself. But Ivy knows that at the heart of it, two lockets alone control the destiny of Empires and the clockwork is ticking as they race back to Vienna and the dangerous labyrinth that lies beneath...
Book 3: The Rules are Different Now. There is only the Horse, the River, the Ice and the End.
The year is 1889 and the world is on the brink of war. After Gilded Crown Prince Rudolf is raised from the dead, 4 unnatural horses are unleashed on Europe, bringing chaos, famine, pestilence and death. Sebastien de Lacey, also known as the Mad Lord of Lasingstoke, has become the Pale Rider, and is making his way inexorably across Europe towards Lonsdale Abbey, a sanitorium north of nowhere. Writer Ivy Savage and physician Christien de Lacey must use all of their wits and resources to beat the Mad Lord to the Empire of Steam, figure out the riddle of the lockets and prevent what could very well be the end of the world. For what the Mad Lord seeks is the elusive Lostlight, a locket sought by all the empires of the world, and they will stop at nothing, even a World War, to procure it. But in order for Ivy to stop this Apocalypse, she must win the battle for Sebastien���s heart or lose the War of the very World.
Genre: Fantasy
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