All Is Fair in Love and Revolution (Rebel Mechanics Series #1)

It's 1888, and seventeen-year-old Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading family-but she quickly learns that the family has big secrets. Magisters have always ruled the colonies, but now an underground society of mechanics and engineers are developing non-magical sources of power via steam engines that they hope will help them gain freedom from British rule. The family Verity works for is magister-but it seems like the children's young guardian uncle is sym...