The Marriage Machine — Patricia Simpson

Chosen to marry a complete stranger, Elspeth is scheduled to enter the marriage machine, which will destroy her ambitions, dull her personality, and turn her into a drone. Instead of following the dictates of the repressive society of the Anglo Territories, Elspeth puts everything on the line to destroy the machine...never guessing she will come face-to-face with the one person who could stop her: irresistably handsome Mark Ramsay, the scion of the powerful family that invented the machine.

Jules Verne collides with Jane Austen in this truly different novella by award-winning author Patricia Simpson as she introduces her new series, The Londo Chronicles.