A Steampunk Novel Winner of the 2018 Realm Makers Award for YA Fiction The Potato Famine is almost a decade behind young airship builder, Paddy O'Brien, but its effects still haunt him. Then he finds his mother dead in the garden. But he has no time to investigate her murder, because a refugee falls from a strange airship, practically into his arms. How did a gorgeous Asian woman ended up on the south coast of Ireland? Under usual circumstances, her company would be more than welcome. But she's being pursued by pirates, and Paddy's been drafted into a militia. These are anything but usual circumstances.