Oh boy... I loved this story. It's my first time reading a steampunk anything. Pairing steampunk genre, pirates and romance... it's my absolute new fav thing. This is the wild romance of Cliff and Sabine. She's the pirate. Right here... you know this story will be out of the ordinary. She's on a treasure hunt and has purchased some indebted/impoverished Duke's house where clues lie. She is most definitely our heroine in all sense of the word. The new Duke is American, and in harmony with the historical backdrop... was not at all interested in being a Duke way over there in England. He was definitely not interested in pouring his hard-earned dollars into the estate. No use spending good money after bad. He was interested in "killing" off the Duke and starting a new life with his daughter in CA. He becomes interested in the treasure hunt and most definitely interested in the lady pirate. His little girl idolizes her, and he can see the appeal. Single-Duke-Dad meets Steampunk-Lady-Pirate with a cutie-mini-heroine and fantasy-inventions-that-could-have-maybe-would-have-been-possible? Oh yeah. So, these 2 decide to work together, and in doing so... we get their amazing adventure romance that takes us around the globe. I highly recommend this and look forward to more from this author!!

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Pirates ! And Lady pirates ! And steampunk pirates!
This book as an interesting plot, and the author's style is nice to read. I liked the mechanical spiders, and how much the Duke loves his daughter. I was less impressed by the romantic relationship, but that's probably my personal taste.
I'm probably not the target audience for this book, but I still enjoyed some parts. 5/10