Synopsis: The Battle for New Britannia

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Prudencia Stratton is sick of working as a milk maid ever since her family was stripped of their hereditary lands. She decides to move to Heartford, where Aunt Bea has promised her a new life in the biggest city in the Duchy. She meets a wounded war veteran on her way over who hides her from an airship attack.

Life in Heartland is hardly better than her home. and her Aunt has frittered away her own estate. Pru is forced to continue her life of menial labor as a bar maid in a rowdy steamboat, but it provides her insight into the various intrigues in the Duchy. Her Aunt has finagled invites to the Harvest Ball. Pru meets the Duke at this ball who is enthralled with Pru. Needing air, she discovers the wounded soldier repairing airships out in the giant hangars. Bad men accost them, but the Duke fights them off.

Some time after returning home from the Ball, she is informed that the Duke wishes to court her. On her way to see him again, her hoverwagon is captured by the King's men who suspect the Duke of treachery. She meets a strange exotic woman from another land who turns out to be the Queen. This woman brings a new way of thinking, of freedom and equal rights, back from her faraway country. Seizing an opportunity to gain knowledge of the Duke's plan the King and Queen enlist Pru to help them preserve the Kingdom, which is in grave peril. Once she arrives at the Duke's, he impresses her with his wealth but makes an inappropriate advance and she resists.

She returns to Heartland. She meets the vet again, and he takes her on an airship ride. She's exhilarated but she could never be with a broken man with no real prospects. She hears about some kind of attack, journeys to an airfield, and investigates a ship. Before she can escape, she's part of a massive air armada sent to attack the Southlands, home of the Queen. During the trip, the Duke asks for her hand. She accepts after wringing promises from him. They attack a major port and cause all kinds of destruction. Pru's ship is shot down as they return home. She escapes with the vet and they hole up in a barn. Things get hot and heavy, more than she bargained for, and she almost breaks her promise to the Duke.

They are rescued. Pru realizes the attack was an act of aggression, not defense, all promoted by the Duke. She confronts him and finds out their wedding is just a sham to seize power, and he imprisons her until the wedding. The Duke is in league with the devilish Reichlanders in a scheme to dethrone the King and seize power himself.

Pru must choose whether to entangle her fate with the scheming Duke's, or give her heart to another who can only promise her a life of hard work and sacrifice.