Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Paperback
416 pages
Tor Books
ISBN: 9780765318411

Boneshaker is a steampunk adventure set in late 1800’s Seattle Washington where the downtown district had been destroyed by a drill tunneling machine called the Boneshaker. Briar Wilkes is the widow of Leviticus Blue, the machine’s creator, and has a son named Ezekiel (Zeke) who ventures away from his home in The Outskirts and into the Blight infected downtown to seek answers and to clear his father’s name. He enters into the city through a large drainage pipe that's soon crushed from an earthquake. Each chapter from this point switches from Zeke and his mother on their journey; his in finding the truth and hers in finding him. In the way are thieves, zombies, pirates with an airship and all have to deal with the heroic determination of both Briar and Zeke who try to find thier way and clear Leviticus's name.