The Kingdom of Ohio
by Matthew Flaming

Summary

In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls The Kingdom of Ohio intriguing, wildly inventive, and wistfully romantic. The Kingdom of Ohio is a story about conspiracies and struggles to reshape the world, revealing secret wars between men like J. P. Morgan andThomas Edison. It is about one of the strangest and least-known mysteries of American history: the existence and disappearance of the Lost Kingdom of Ohio. It is about science and faith, and the distance between the two. And most of all, it's a story about a man and a woman, and about love.

Peter Force, a young frontier adventurer, comes to New York City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first subway tunnels beneath the metropolis. The woman is Cheri-Anne Toledo, a beautiful mathematical prodigy whose memories appear to come from another world. They meet seemingly by chance, and initially Peter dismisses her as crazy. But as they are drawn into a tangle of overlapping intrigues, Peter must reexamine Cheri-Anne's fantastic story. Could it be that she is telling the truth and that she has stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable: the key to traveling through time?

Set against the mazelike streets of New York at the dawn of the mechanical age, Peter and Cheri-Anne find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself.

Praise

"Its intriguing premise and inherent mystery are impossible to resist. Marrying poetic prose with hints of steam-punk aesthetics to an arcane, time-wrenching plot that includes a healthy dose of wistful romance, the author unleashes an absorbing adventure about warring scientists, lost princesses and the genius who created modern New York City. ... Flaming's wildly inventive fantasy ... begs to be followed to its hurtling, heart-rending end. A marvelous fable about the worlds beneath our feet and the conspiracies that turn our heads." — Kirkus Review (starred)

"Absorbed by the twists and turns of the story, I felt like applauding every new idea, every conversation, every mystery, and every revelation! A memorable novel that makes me want to read much more of Mr. Flaming!" — Michael Moorcock

"A beautiful fable about love, time, technology, and the birth of America." — Robert Anthony Siegel

About the Author

Matthew Flaming was born in Los Angeles and now lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife. Matthew's passions include the way stories shape our lives and our perceptions, the effects of technology on culture, and the distance between science and faith.

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