Dreadnought (The Clockwork Century 2) Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Rich bad news: Mercy’s husband has died in a POW cararavely injured, and he wishes to see her Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River Once there, she’ll catch a train over the Rockies and--if the telegraton Territory by the sheriff, ill take her to see her father in Seattle Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states When Mercy finally arrives in St Louis, the only Taco Union-operated steaht Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and cliht to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers The train isaway from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can’t io secreted in the second and last train cars has so to do with it? Mercy is just a frustrated nurse ants to see her father before he dies But she’ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to ht alive