The Iron Beast - Paperback

by Alan McKee (Author)

When the talented and spoiled Pamela Blackwood meets the King of railway builders during the railway mania of the 1840s, she almost succumbs to his powerful charm, immediately. But she is also drawn in an entirely different way to her new music master, a gifted pupil of the great Franz Lizst. One man offers her an empire of wealth and power, the other offers the spiritual fulfillment of her deepest talents. But the tutor of her once hated step sister, a poor, modest young man shows her that really, only one solution is possible. He is a young man with a mission: to solve the murder of his former mentor. Their stories unfold against the back drop of the explosive growth of the British Empire, when rich and poor were on the verge of war and the "Iron Beast" was changing everything and giving birth to our own era. The Iron Beast is a portrait of an age and a comment on our own times.

Author Biography

Historical novelist with three titles. Before writing my first novel, I was a professional writer for 30 years, writing film, advertising, and successful editorial product as well as promotions. Currently creating and publishing ebooks for the ipad. For fifteen years I was the primary creative source (copy and design) for Nightingale-Conant Corporation, the largest self-improvement audio publisher in the world. I have also written films, comics for DC, and non-fiction books