With great style and panache, the novel deftly winds through the intricacies of friendship and moral choice while maintaining a fun edge. “Introduces dastardly villains, friendly mechanicals, and thrilling airship action … with hair-raising and cinematic charm.” – Kirkus Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. With the help of a clockmaker’s son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, Lily escapes London in search of the one person who might know something about her father’s disappearance-and what he left behind. ( 43 ratings ) Unavailable in your country About this ebook The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination. And all he left behind is a small box-with no key, no hinges. But if he made such a miraculous discovery, he certainly never told Lily. There are rumors, Lily learns, that her father had invented the most valuable invention ever made-a perpetual motion machine. But what could they possibly want from her? Mysterious, silver-eyed men are lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their chance to strike. Now cared for by her guardian, the heartless Madame Verdigris, Lily is quite certain that she’s being watched. But after her father-a famous inventor-disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily’s life gets turned upside down. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. Thirteen-year-old Lily Harman always dreamed of adventure.
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