What if the Nautilus and its famous captain wasn t fiction?
Jonathan de Chevalier Mason has it all: A promising career designing warships for Her Majesty s Navy, a beautiful well-born wife and two children. Two of his new ironclads are sending shockwaves rippling through the navies of the British Empire s European and American rivals. But Jonathan has designed another shipa revolutionary warship so terrible that whoever possesses it will be master of the seas. And no one wants it more than the very people Jonathan works forthe British Government. But for reasons of his own, Jonathan has...