Author: ellisonblackburn

A year and a half ago, River St. Clair would never have guessed that she’d come to appreciate, even prefer, the unpolished Victorian-era Chicago over the same gleaming metropolis three centuries into the future. But there is something extraordinary about watching a phoenix rise from the ashes before your eyes. And she can relate. She has carved a place for herself in this strange world too, a … world too, a man’s world; never mind that she has had to disguise herself as one. Now, a solid sense of purpose and new-found friendships buffer the day-to-day inanities as well as the…

In October 1871, Chicago burned.And from the ashes emerged the Chicago St. Clairs. As recent transplants to a foregone era, the St. Clairs of the Clarion Division are still acclimating to their surroundings. It will probably take a while. Meet River St. Clair, the city’s newest medical examiner and a female necessarily disguised as a man, and her brother Archer, the business district’s police … Archer, the business district’s police inspector. And although both are specially equipped to handle criminals of the twenty-second century, their high-tech skills are far less useful for crime-fighting in the Victorian Windy City. The death of Arthur Boyd…