The Hidden Family

by Charles Stross

Paperback, 327 pages

Published Aug. 28, 2008 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:: 978-0-330-46093-4
Goodreads:: 3936486

(37 reviews)

Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade, and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists -- with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family. Charles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet.

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Tech journalist and cross-world-traveller Miriam continues her struggle from the first book, trying to find a way to escape the grasp of her mafia-like family in the alternate world of Gruinmarkt while also trying to evade family enemies who want to murder her, an internal mole within her family who also has no good intentions, and unraveling the truth behind her birth world mother who has also mysteriously vanished. All while discovering the way to a third world and attempting to find a way to establish a profitable business there that might buy her a way to freedom... if she survives long enough.