E.K. Johnston, author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka, writes up a unique story in speculative historical fiction with THAT INEVITABLE VICTORIAN THING.

It’s always interesting how we can imagine what things would’ve been like if such-and-such had not happened or such-and-such events were different. Such is the case with E.K. Johnston‘s That Inevitable Victorian Thing, in which Johnston imagines an alternate history where the United States never came to be (no Hamilton: An American Musical!?) and the Brits still ruled everything.

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Set in a near-future world where the British Empire never fell and the United States never rose, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a surprising, delightful, and thought-provoking novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.

Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history two centuries earlier. The imperial practice of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage like her mother before her, but before she does her duty, she’ll have one summer incognito in a far corner of empire. In Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire’s greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir apparent to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an unusual bond and maybe a one in a million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process —just like the first Queen Victoria.

That Inevitable Victorian Thing is set to be published October 3, 2017, and you can pre-order the book here.

You can read an excerpt from the book right here.