Kady Cross: The Girl in the Steel Corset

In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one…except the «thing» inside her.

When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But no normal Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with one punch….

Only Griffin King sees the magical darkness inside her that says she s special, says she s one of them. The orphaned duke takes her in from the gaslit streets against the wishes of his band of misfits: Emily, who has her own special abilities and an unrequited love for Sam, who is part robot, and Jasper, an American cowboy with a shadowy secret.

Griffin s investigating a criminal called The Machinist, the mastermind behind several recent crimes by automatons. Finley thinks she can help—and finally be a part of something, finally fit in.

But The Machinist wants to tear Griff s little company of strays apart, and it isn t long before trust is tested on all sides. At least Finley knows whose side she s on—even if it seems no one believes her.