Combustion (Book 1: The Spark)
MarinaRaSauce86
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  • Parts 17
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MarinaRaSauce86
Ongoing, First published Feb 17, 2017
adventurebrooklynfactoryfutureheroineindustrialindustrialrevolutioninventionpastpollutionpowerfulrevolutionsmogtimetravel
"Would it all be worth it if she 'saves the world?'"

What would you do if you woke-up one day in an unfamiliar world? What if you kept stumbling - Would you pick yourself back up?

Having already lived a childhood bouncing from home to home in Brooklyn, our reluctant heroine - Amelia La Graine - has her life turned upside down and inside-out when she travels back in time to the era of the American Industrial Revolution (circa 1820). There, she must discover why she was sent back and what she must do to go home.
  
Will one woman, stuck in the past, change the future of a young and budding country? 

The first book in the "Combustion" trilogy weaves a tangled tale of heroism, deceit, danger, and manipulation - all while Amelia tries finding herself in an epoch that was never meant to be hers. 

Combustion: The Spark
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