Alexia Tarabotti-Maccon is back in her newest adventure! And this time she’s on the warpath.  With an assassination attempt on the Queen, and dealing with a pregnancy, Alexia has more than enough to keep her occupied.

A bit more about Heartless:

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband’s past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux’s latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines and Alexia barely has time to remember she happens to be eight months pregnant.

Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf’s clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama’s second best closet?

We’re releasing the first chapter of Heartless on Facebook and you can find Gail on twitter @gailcarriger.

And for those of you who have yet to read the first three– we’ll be doing an ebook bundle of the first three books at $9.99 in the US.  So that’s Soulless, Blameless and Changeless in one bundle starting July 5th!

Timeless is the final book in the Alexia Tarabotti-Maccon series and it will be published in March 2012. If you’d like a sneak peak at the cover of Timeless, find it here.