Jeff Gerke

The Mapmaker's Daughter Jeff Gerke

A Steampunk NovelThe Potato Famine is almost a decade behind young airship builder, Paddy O'Brien, but its effects still haunt him. Then he finds his mother dead in the garden. But he has no time to investigate her murder, because a refugee falls from a strange airship, practically into his arms. Paddy has no idea how a gorgeous Asian woman ended up on the south coast of Ireland. Under usual circumstances, her company would be more than welcome. But she's being pursued by pirates, and he's drafted into a militia. These are anything but usual circumstances.