Driven and stubborn, Madeline Williams studied all her life to become a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, and pilot. Her parents, though disapproving, were well off and sent her to the best private schools in the land, where she learned to detest the traditional female roles of wives and mothers, and became determined to show the world what's for and become something that only men could be: a navigator for a high class skyship. Years of studying and forcing herself to the top led to various small careers, until she signed up for the military and successfully became a lieutenant serving as navigations officer on the HMS Justice under Admir