Boneshaker Priest

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive. Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches of history Boneshaker 1 From Unlikely Episodes in Western History CHAPTER 7: Seattle’s Walled and Peculiar State Work in progress, by Hale Quarter (1880) 16 One 22 Two 30 Three 33 Four 43 Five 60 Six 70 Seven 79 Eight 93 Nine 99 Ten 120 Eleven 133 Twelve 159 Thirteen 173 Fourteen 186 Fifteen 206 Sixteen 225 Seventeen 245 Eighteen 257 Nineteen 272 Twenty 282 Twenty-one 298 Twenty-two 308 Twenty-three 325 Twenty-four 340 Twenty-five 348 Twenty-six 362 Twenty-seven 377 Twenty-eight 393 Epilogue 412 Author’s Note 416