Alternative history/Steampunk
The Vitruvian Mask, book two in the Roboticist of Versailles series. This one focuses on Adelaide Coumain as she struggles with the repercussions of the Naturalist revolution that has stripped her of her position as a Scientist and made her a fugitive. The Naturalists revere natural beauty and abhor technology but what lies beneath the mask? Ebooks at most online retailers including Amazon. Print copies available at Bookshop.org.
1881: The electric lights of Paris have been extinguished.
The Naturalist revolution is over. Adelaide was on the losing side. Once the Royal Scientist Doctor for the now-dead cyborg monarchs of France, she’s now a fugitive, hiding from the new king’s Police Sécrète.
Pregnant and alone, she seeks refuge in a Parisian hospital but things have changed there too. What was once a cathedral of Science is now a bastion of ignorance and superstition.
The battlefield veterans whose Augmented prosthetics she once created are shunned by the new regime and come to the hospital for her help. But her nemesis, the father of her child, has returned to France and threatens to reveal her illegal activities to the authorities.
Can Adelaide repair her Augmented patients without losing her freedom … or her life?
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