Rev DiCerto

As soon as they arrived in New York, Irish immigrants Jim Leary and his brother Billy were conscripted into the Union Aero Corps, forced to fight in a civil war they had no interest in. Ten years later, with America now divided in two, each brother believes the other died in combat....

Convinced of the superiority of his so-called “scientific” mind, Doctor Daniel Hobbes, of Her Majesty’s Royal Society, investigates supernatural creatures and cryptozoological phenomena during the Victorian age....

Ranging on horseback across the desert-like Tarped land, and known by their green sombreros, Paladinos protect the Tarp, empowered to kill cutters at their own discretion. There is no due process for cutters—the Paladinos are judge, jury, and executioner. You cut the Tarp, you die....

Soon after the end of the War of Southern Independence, in which he lost his younger brother in battle, Jimmy Leary, under the assumed name of Gallagher, has signed on as a crewman on the pirate airship Isabela.