The Gunpowder Chronicles Books in Order

In a steampunk Qing China, Jin Soling is abducted after trying to sell her executed father's invention. Ordered to recover technology that could power the imperial fleet, she works with her former betrothed while questioning whose interests their mission serves.

Sent to Japan to seek an alliance against foreign pressure on China, physician Jin Soling discovers their contact has been murdered. Hunted as spies and pursued by mechanical samurai, her expedition must escape before its diplomatic mission becomes a fatal trap.

Summoned to a warlord's castle to build a mysterious device, puppet maker Hanzo encounters a courtesan forced to sing through every night. Their connection makes escape more complicated, testing whether he will risk himself to save her.

Three steampunk stories explore rebellion in Shanghai, a dangerous search for an unmarked island, and an imperial examination threatened by concealed identity. Characters across the Gunpowder Chronicles confront technological change, loyalty, and love in an unsettled nineteenth-century world.

Working with her former betrothed in a secret automaton factory, physician Jin Soling struggles to reconcile family, love, and loyalty to China. Smuggling voyages and unrest in Shanghai reveal threats within the empire as dangerous as those beyond its borders.