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    How Smoke Delivered A Christmas Present: Smoke, #2
    How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys: Smoke, #1
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    Smoke Series

    By DeAnna Knippling

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    About this series

    London, England. 1840.

    The Chimney Sweep Act has just been passed by Parliament, forbidding the use of underaged orphans as chimney sweeps’ assistants—four- and five-year-olds are being sent down into chimneys with wire brushes to scrape out the creosote. The government means well, but has instead put hundreds or even thousands of little kids with no real protectors out of work. Right before Christmas.

    Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, has been trying to rescue them all.

    Three of the orphans are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Croft, well-off mill-owners from Yorkshire. The first night, all seemed to be fine—but the next time Caroline checks on them, they have left the sign for trouble in their window. All three of them are missing, and their belongings are still nailed up in the crate they were delivered in.

    Caroline breaks into the house, fearing the worst…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWonderland Press
    Release dateNov 23, 2016
    How Smoke Delivered A Christmas Present: Smoke, #2
    How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys: Smoke, #1

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys: Smoke, #1
      How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys: Smoke, #1

      How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys: Smoke, #1

      DeAnna Knippling
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      London, England. 1840. Gangs of four- and five-year-old orphans are being used as "apprentice" chimney sweeps--they're the only ones who can fit down the narrow chimneys, taking brushes and baskets down with them into upper-class Victorian homes to scrape out the creosote.  It's good for 'em, don'tcher know? Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, is one of the older orphans, who help lift and lower the smaller ones, handle the customers, and keep the gang runner, Hasty Wallace, from flying off the handle.  But rumor is, it's time to shuffle the sixteen-year-old orphan off to other business ventures.  Ones with mattresses.  Lots of mattresses.  If it were up to Hasty (and it is), Caroline will disappear into a brothel in Whitechapel...or a ditch.  Honestly, he doesn't care which. It's time for Caroline to get out of the chimney business.  And maybe it's time that Hasty Wallace learned a thing or two about orphans...

      London, England. 1840. Gangs of four- and five-year-old orphans are being used as "apprentice" chimney sweeps--they're the only ones who can fit down the narrow chimneys, taking brushes and baskets down with them into upper-class Victorian homes to scrape out the creosote.  It's good for 'em, don'tcher know? Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, is one of the older orphans, who help lift and lower the smaller ones, handle the customers, and keep the gang runner, Hasty Wallace, from flying off the handle.  But rumor is, it's time to shuffle the sixteen-year-old orphan off to other business ventures.  Ones with mattresses.  Lots of mattresses.  If it were up to Hasty (and it is), Caroline will disappear into a brothel in Whitechapel...or a ditch.  Honestly, he doesn't care which. It's time for Caroline to get out of the chimney business.  And maybe it's time that Hasty Wallace learned a thing or two about orphans...

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      How Smoke Delivered A Christmas Present: Smoke, #2
      How Smoke Delivered A Christmas Present: Smoke, #2

      How Smoke Delivered A Christmas Present: Smoke, #2

      DeAnna Knippling
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      London, England. 1840. The Chimney Sweep Act has just been passed by Parliament, forbidding the use of underaged orphans as chimney sweeps’ assistants—four- and five-year-olds are being sent down into chimneys with wire brushes to scrape out the creosote. The government means well, but has instead put hundreds or even thousands of little kids with no real protectors out of work. Right before Christmas. Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, has been trying to rescue them all. Three of the orphans are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Croft, well-off mill-owners from Yorkshire. The first night, all seemed to be fine—but the next time Caroline checks on them, they have left the sign for trouble in their window. All three of them are missing, and their belongings are still nailed up in the crate they were delivered in. Caroline breaks into the house, fearing the worst…

      London, England. 1840. The Chimney Sweep Act has just been passed by Parliament, forbidding the use of underaged orphans as chimney sweeps’ assistants—four- and five-year-olds are being sent down into chimneys with wire brushes to scrape out the creosote. The government means well, but has instead put hundreds or even thousands of little kids with no real protectors out of work. Right before Christmas. Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, has been trying to rescue them all. Three of the orphans are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Croft, well-off mill-owners from Yorkshire. The first night, all seemed to be fine—but the next time Caroline checks on them, they have left the sign for trouble in their window. All three of them are missing, and their belongings are still nailed up in the crate they were delivered in. Caroline breaks into the house, fearing the worst…

    Author

    DeAnna Knippling

    DeAnna Knippling is a freelance writer, editor, and book designer living in Colorado.  She started out as a farm girl in the middle of South Dakota, went to school in Vermillion, SD, then gravitated through Iowa to Colorado, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and mystery for adults under her own name; adventurous and weird fiction for middle-grade (8-12 year old) kids under the pseudonym De Kenyon; and various thriller and suspense fiction for her ghostwriting clients under various and non-disclosable names. Her latest book, Alice’s Adventures in Underland:  The Queen of Stilled Hearts, combines two of her favorite topics–zombies and Lewis Carroll. Her short fiction has appeared in Black Static, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and more. Her website and blog are at www.WonderlandPress.com.  You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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