Maria Isabella Boyd\'s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim.
And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them..
He takes her advice.
She follows his orders.
She joins his crew, and he uses her connections.
He\'s dangerous quarry and she\'s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance.
And now it\'s Maria\'s job to go get him.
In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.
Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who\'s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years.
The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials-essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.
In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn\'t pleased.
Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army.
Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.
Maria Isabella Boyd\'s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim
