Science fiction · Steampunk adventure
Towering cities. Copper dirigibles. A lost history powerful enough to change the Five Colonies.
Every journey changes you.
Ambition or responsibility—which would you choose?
Autumn Gail faces the ruins—and what waits beyond them.
The story
Autumn Gail crosses a world of floating cities, Ark-powered machines, and dangerous rival powers. With the black blade Esmeralda at her side, she must decide what she is willing to risk when the truth begins to surface.
A fast-moving adventure for readers drawn to airships, hidden histories, strange technology, and a heroine determined to choose her own course.
The sky fell. She’s asking why.
She asks too many questions.
Graphic novel · Volume 1
The first volume of the graphic novel adaptation is now available on Amazon.
Get graphic novel Vol. 1Illustrated adventures for young readers
Autumn’s younger adventures bring the wonder of the Five Colonies to families through warm storytelling, richly illustrated journeys, and real science made inviting.
Now available
Her school tour in sparkling Aria is over, and a copper dirigible is carrying Autumn home across the Five Colonies. Along the way she wonders how engines sing, why teachers say the strangest things, and what makes a little owl talisman breathe.
A gentle adventure about curiosity, kindness, and the people who make a place home.
For readers ages 8–11A five-book science series
Twenty short lessons in every book turn one joyful adventure into real-world discoveries, hands-on ideas, and stories of women who changed science.
Book 1 · Flight & space
One happy day aboard the Atlas opens into the science of balloons, wind, engines, rockets, orbits, and the women who helped make spaceflight possible.
For curious readers ages 8–13 Coming soon
Book 2 · Energy & electricity
A day in Phyfer’s workshop connects glowing Ark energy to real batteries, circuits, copper wire, switches, lightning, and the electricity in everyday life.
For curious readers ages 8–13 Coming soon
Inside the Five Colonies
New here? Start with the world. Five colonies, one restless girl, and a sky full of copper ships — this is where Autumn’s story lives.
Five colonies, five ways of life. Ash builds and mines. Concord trades and counts. Aria studies and invents. Ivory City sails and teaches. Mirage keeps the markets humming. Autumn’s story crosses every one of them.
Autumn Gail sits at the center of it all — a girl who asks too many questions, carrying her father’s worn aviator jacket and a black sword with emerald eyes. Around her: Phyfer, her best friend, who can fix anything with an engine in it; Quinn, who never leaves her side; her sister Summer; her grandfather, elder of House Gail; her mother Elizabeth; and her father, the Captain. On the other side of the board: Raven, once a friend, now a rival — and Chancellor Syd Rhymes, who holds Concord with an iron grip.
Shadow, sword, and light. Three women bound by blood and history, divided by what each of them is willing to do. The question hanging over all three of them: ambition, or responsibility?
Chancellor Syd Rhymes doesn’t hold Concord by argument. His Black Guard marches in black armor under red banners, Ark guns charged and ready — and his hunter Raven walks in shadow ahead of them. If you’ve come this far into Autumn’s world, you already know whose side you’re on.
Autumn’s Anthology — the novel. A red-haired girl, a copper dirigible, a sentient black sword named Esmeralda, and a sky full of questions she refuses to stop asking. This is where the world began.
In Autumn’s world, power has a price, and everybody pays it one way or another. The lion coin spends anywhere in the Five Colonies — if the Black Guard doesn’t take it from you first.
Everything runs on Ark energy — blue as a summer sky, carried in cores with a silver connector on one end and gold on the other. Ship-size cores drive the dirigibles. Compact cores charge the Ark guns. Everybody wants them. Nobody handles them carelessly.
Cut her open and look inside: the bridge up top, passengers in their velvet seats, engineers tending the Ark cores on the lower deck, and the great blue engines humming underneath it all. This is how Autumn gets home.
Helm wheel, pitch levers, throttle, lift and ballast, flight gauges, pressure gauges, the aether regulator, and the chart table with its speaking tube. Concept art from the world of the book — the artist’s imagining of the controls, straight from a dirigible bridge.
Somebody has to keep the skies running. Foundries, docks, workshops, and building yards — the working side of the Five Colonies, where the Ark cores get built and the dirigibles get patched up and sent back into the clouds.
Ready to cross the Five Colonies with Autumn?
Buy Autumn’s Anthology