In this steampunk novella series, orphan Ashton Keynes is serving time in the Great Western Home for the Unruly and Damned, part prison, part workhouse. When he finds his captor is planning to do away with him, he vows to escape…
Set in an alternate steampunk nineteenth century England, the Crimson Blade series follows 12 year old workhouse escapee Ash as he teams up with a motley crew aboard a freight haulage locomotive, including the fearsome Iron Acton, the strangely friendly Frampton Cotterell and the train’s dog, Studley. Ash unwittingly propels them into a journey to save the life of young socialite Sandy Lane and recover a cursed jewelled dagger.
Continue the Crimson Blade series with The Rail Pirates and It All Ends Here, also availble on only in Kindle from Ed Zenith
