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Clockwork Alchemist


A Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the The Thief's Apprentice Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Steampunk,
  • Gaslamp,
  • Automaton Protagonist,
  • Mystery
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  • Automaton heroines questioning what it means to have a soul
  • Alchemy-fueled mysteries tangled with murder and secrets
  • Victorian London settings with thieves, detectives, and masked strangers
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The clock ticks for London…

Liliana is trapped alone in the dark. Her father is dead, and London is very far away. If only she hadn’t been locked up in her room, reading a book she wasn’t allowed to read, she might have been able to stop her father’s killer. Now he’s lying dead in the next room, and there’s nothing she can do to bring him back.

Arhyen is the self-declared finest thief in London. His mission was simple. Steal a journal from Fairfax Breckinridge, the greatest alchemist of the time. He hadn’t expected to find Fairfax himself, with a dagger in his back. Nor had he expected the alchemist’s automaton daughter, who claims to have a soul. Suddenly entrenched in a mystery too great to fully comprehend,

Arhyen and Liliana must rely on the help of a wayward detective, and a mysterious masked man, to piece together the clues laid before them. Will they uncover the true source of Liliana’s soul in time, or will London plunge into a dark age of nefarious technology, where only the scientific will survive?

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