An unlikely team of Victorian classic characters band together with faith, friendship, and the courage to fight the rise of a slave empire setting the social order on its ear across the British Empire. Multicultural and multitalented, these characters leap off the pages of Alcott, Dickens, Kipling, Austen, and more to find adventure, deadly peril, romance, and Steampunk cog and gear devices to help them on their way or to force them to risk all to save what they hold dear.