About the Book

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Hudson Mudworth, a science-loving kid struggling with anxiety (and a passionately unsupportive family) wants only to be left alone so he can work on his inventions. He’s got a notebook full of ideas, among them: the world’s first flying machine. But a plague of unexplained crimes and peculiar goings on—including the suspicious disappearance of his perennially unsuccessful criminal father, and the possibility that his mother may have been in on it—dislodge him from the security of his bedroom and hurl him into a world of mystery, uncertainty and danger, leading from the sewers under the city to the skies above, where Hudson must find his courage and use his smarts to triumph over the sinister forces plotting to overtake the city. 

The book is part science and part fantasy, in a late 1800s / early 1900s era setting. All the technology (including Hudson’s inventions) is based on, or inspired by, real science (with steampunk overtones).