Steel Blues - Book II of The Order of the Air

In this sequel to Lost Things, when the Gilchrist Aviation team tries to win the money to keep the business going by placing first in a coast-to-coast air race, things get complicated! A stolen necklace, a runaway Russian countess, and a century-old curse seem like trouble enough, but then there's New Orleans, and the unsolved murders of the New Orleans Axeman. But what if the murderer is one of them?This Kindle Edition features an excerpt from LOST THINGS, the first book in the series, as well as an excerpt form THE PARTING - a Novel of the O.C.L.T. by David Niall Wilson.FIND MORE TITLES by MELISSA SCOTT & Crossroad Press, including Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Silence in Solitude, The Kindly Ones, and more by searching Melissa Scott and Crossroad Press. Also available Jo Graham's The Ravens of Falkenau, and the unabridged audio of her classic historical fantasy - Hand of Isis, narrated by Gigi Shane.CROSSROAD PRESS offers many SCI-FI and FANTASY books, including the original series properties O.C.L.T., Tales of The Scattered Earth, The DeChance Chronicles, and more.

From the Inside Flap

In 1931 the Great Depression is at its height, and the crew at Gilchrist Aviation are flat broke. They're going to have to start selling off planes if they don't get some work soon. But maybe they could win the money in an air race, a coast to coast extravaganza with a big cash prize! They've got the skill and a little extra luck besides. But the start of the race is marred by a stolen necklace, and soon it's turned into a race for their lives with a runaway Russian countess who hears the dead, a cursed necklace that kills, and the ten year old murders of a serial killer, the notorious New Orleans Axeman. But what if the killer's not a stranger at all? What if he were one of them?

From the Back Cover

Praise for the Order of the Air Scott (Point of Knives) and Graham (Black Ships) avoid the pitfalls of conventional occult adventure thanks to their clean, well-crafted prose and their embrace of unconventional characters in unorthodox relationships. What could have been a mundane collect-the-plot-tokens supernatural thriller becomes a pleasantly intriguing story in their talented hands. -- Publishers Weekly The novel itself is a deft blend of supernatural intrigue and the noir adventure of serials from the 1930s, something that is rare to find and even rarer to find done well. Lost Things is a throwback in the best sense of the word. The action is extremely well-done, and the meticulously researched locations - a transatlantic airship, an archaeological dig, pre-Depression Chicago and New York - give you a true sense of being tossed back in time. (Lost Things) is a vibrant and utterly believable world peopled by characters you can't wait to see in action again. -- Geonn Cannon for Geek Speak Magazine Melissa Scott has returned. And she's done so in less a whirlwind of activity than a tornado....the entire novel unfolds in this effective, fluidly organic, and ceaselessly engaging way. It's a subtle skill, an impressive book-length balancing act. It's beautifully captured in Bob Eggleton's cover art, in which the novel's airship balances dreamily with symbols of the moon-goddess in the dreamlike sky of another age. And it makes Lost Things a decidedly difficult novel to put down. I hope you'll pick it up. I know I'll pick up the forthcoming sequel, Steel Blues. -- Cynthia Ward for Black Gate Magazine

About the Author

Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in the Comparative History program.  She is the author of more than twenty-five science fiction and fantasy novels, and has won the Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, and Point of Dreams, the last written with her late partner, Lisa A. Barnett.  She has also won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man and again in 2010 for the short story "The Rocky Side of the Sky" as well as the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.Jo Graham worked in politics for fifteen years before leaving to write full time.  She is the author of the Locus Award nominated Black Ships and the Spectrum Award nominated Stealing Fire, as well as several other novels including the Stargate Atlantis Legacy series and The General's Mistress.  She lives in North Carolina with her partner and their daughter.

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