ISBN: 0765382822 9780765382825

Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Historical

Page count: 416

<p><b>The thrilling adventures of Arabella Ashby continue in <i>Arabella and the Battle of Venus</i>, the second book in Hugo-winning author David D. Levine's swashbuckling sci-fi, alternate history series!</b><br><br>Arabella’s wedding plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company are interrupted when her fiancé is captured by the French and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp on swampy Venus. Now, Arabella must find passage to an enemy-controlled planet in the middle of a war, bribe or fight her way past vicious guards, and rescue her Captain.<br><br>To do this she must enlist the help of the dashing privateer, Daniel Fox of the <i>Touchstone</i> and build her own clockwork navigational automaton in order to get to Venus before the dread French general, Joseph Fouché, the Executioner of Lyon. <br><br>Once on Venus, Arabella, Singh, and Fox soon discover that Napoleon has designed a secret weapon, one that could subjugate the entire galaxy if they can’t discover a way to stop Fouché, and the entire French army, from completing their emperor’s mandate.</p>