Machination — Ella Summers

For sixteen years, the alliance between the sorcerers of Elitia and the technology-powered Selpe Empire has held. But forces from both outside and within want to see that bond broken -- and now they may finally succeed.

When the Selpe emperor is assassinated the same night his twin half-Elition sons vanish without a trace, the high king of Elitia tasks Ariella with uncovering a traitor in the Selpe ranks. She has never felt comfortable chasing conspiracies. If she doesn't solve this one, though, the traitor will strike again -- and the rule of the Selpe Empire will fall to those who want to turn her and every other Elition into living weapons.

Desperate times call for unlikely allies. Ariella teams up with Silas, the murdered emperor's bodyguard; Marin, a bomb-building airship engineer; and Leonidas, a disgraced Selpe intelligence agent. But someone really doesn't want them to unravel this conspiracy. And this mysterious someone is doing a pretty thorough job of trying to kill them.

Machination is Book 3 in the Sorcery and Science fantasy adventure series.

Reading Order: Sorcery and Science

• Enchanted (Book 1)
• Wilderness (Book 2)
• Menace (Book 2.5)
• Machination (Book 3)
• Revelations (Book 3.5)
• Skybuilders (Book 4)
• And more books coming soon...