At the end of The Golden Specific, Sophia was on her way home to Boston, anticipating her reunion with Theo. But he has been conscripted to fight in the Western War - Prime Minister Broadgirdle's twisted vision of Manifest Destiny. Shadrack is in his thral I as War Cartologer and cannot help his niece. Sophia leaves right away to track down her best friend and solve the mystery of her parents once and for all. Then Shadrack hears of a horrifying weapon: it is a red fog called the Crimson Skew, and if you inhale it, you become a murderer. Sophia and her companions - and Theo's army company - are directly in its path. There is a fate worse than death, and it is about to ruin their lives...

 

This is volume 3 in Mapmakers Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 10+ years.

There are 464 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd .

S. E. Grove (www. segrovebooks. com) is a historian and world traveler. She is the author of the Mapmakers trilogy.