Alexander Lydiate

The Now Before Alexander Lydiate

"They're not people, exactly....they have a power. They call it thoughtcraft. And with this power, Eliza, they can get inside heads. They can take control."

Eliza is in a strange world, familiar to her own, but here the ice caps have melted, for the climate has changed.

England is an archipelago.

On an island she once knew as a headland, Eliza unravels the mystery of the maids and their thoughtcraft, and is thrown into an epic adventure.

Along the way she meets Magnus the Magnificent, a teenage magical charlatan, and together they travel across New Albion and find pirates and watchmakers and rebellion.