The Cloud Prison — D.B. Jackson

The Cloud PrisonA Thieftaker NovellaPart II of IIIThe Loyalist Witch — Thieftaker, Fall 1770Charlotte Whitcomb, the lovely and dangerous loyalist who nearly killed Ethan Kaille in their first encounter, and came within a hair's breadth of destroying all of Boston in their second, has returned to the fair city. And she remains determined to end the cause of liberty once and for all.This time she seeks to make Ethan and his friend Diver Jervis the tools of her malign intentions. She kidnaps Diver's betrothed and employing powers Ethan barely comprehends, imprisons her in a cloud above the frigid waters of Boston Harbor.Unable to defeat her on his own, Ethan turns to old friends, and to the uncommon magick of a new one: Amanda Oakroot, an Earth Witch. Together, Ethan and his comrades seek to defeat the Loyalist Witch before she takes the life of Diver's truest love.