Now that we’ve announced the fact that our book is going to be a real live book, we’d also like to tell you what it’s about. For that reason, we’ve written up a little synopsis:

“Famed explorer Sir Jonathan Pryce is dead. As the nation mourns, Pryce’s daughter Eleanor begins to suspect that there is more to the story than the newspapers tell. When a parcel delivered to her door provides a clue that her father may indeed still live, she wastes no time in mounting her own expedition to track him down. On her newly-assembled team: a fanatical physician, a hopeless cartographer, a disgraced upperclassman and a meticulous accountant tasked with keeping the whole affair under budget. It is a motley crew, but fortunately, Eleanor has also enlisted the aid of James Alexander Steele, the world’s greatest hunter-tracker and a living legend. With no time to spare, the new Pryce Expedition makes for West Africa to pick up Sir Jonathan’s trail. At first, the task seems simple, but it soon becomes clear that the path ahead leads into a darkness and danger none of them could have foreseen.

From lies to theft to cold-blooded murder, more and more of Sir Jonatan’s secrets are uncovered and the members of the Pryce Expedition find themselves on an unlikely adventure. Told by the men and the woman who were there, Pure Steele is a tale of grand deception, ancient treasure, rampaging elephants and unpalatable French poetry.”

Pure Steele features art by Karl Kerschl, Stephen Morrow, Glenn Belair, Benjamin Dewey, Brian Patterson and Sanjulian and was written and designed by Kim Belair and Ariadne MacGillivray. It’s ultra-sweet, pretty interesting, generally quite funny and also the poems are the best.

Tags: Ariadne MacGillivray, Glenn Belair, Karl Kerschl, Kim Belair, Pryce Expedition, Sanjulian, Steele, Stephen Morrow