Clementine / Cherie Priest

Clementine by Cherie Priest. 201 p.

Part of Priest's Clockwork Century setting--an alternate United States still mired in the Civil War in 1880, with steampunk technology--this short novel features Croggon Hainey, airship captain, whom we last saw in Boneshaker. Unfortunately for him someone's stolen his airship, and he's determined to get it back. His path crosses that of Belle Boyd, former Confederate spy, who's now working for the Pinkerton agency and may be trying to capture Hainey, who's wanted in the South as an escaped slave (and air pirate). I could have done with more Hainey and less Belle, but this was pretty enjoyable. Some of the airship action scenes were really cool, too,