If the Mistletoe Machine stops, Christmas in Arcvale might never begin…
In the steam-powered city of Arcvale, Christmas officially starts with the Turning of the Green—the moment when the great Holly Maker and the legendary Mistletoe Machine fill every level with twining garlands of red and white.
But this year, the ancient Mistletoe Machine has fallen silent.
Lady Dorothea Renslow has always had a talent her ambitious parents dismiss—a ‘knack’ for gears, cogs, and clockwork. After one restriction too many, she flees the marble halls of Upper Arcvale, vanishes down to the lowest levels and into the smoky Undercroft, determined to build a life where no one can tell her what a lady must or must not be.
Silas Gray, Forge Marshal of Arcvale Foundry & Clockworks, prefers boilers to ballrooms and machines to manners. In the Undercroft he’s simply Silas, a man who works beside his people with soot on his sleeves and a mechanical cat in his kitchen. And he's happy to keep it that way.
When Dorothea reaches the Foundry, sparks fly—of attraction and of invention. And knowing that the Mistletoe Machine might have failed for good, Silas dares to believe that there might be one person in Arcvale who could coax life back into its clock-sick heart: the stubborn, brilliant woman whois rapidly turning his world upside down.
Dorothea plunges into the guts of the ancient mechanism, where forgotten faults, and ghosts of Silas’s past lie buried among the gears. But does he realise that if she succeeds, it will mean facing the Council that condemned him years before… and revealing his true name to the woman who has finally seen him as he is.
If Dorothea can fix the Mistletoe machine, Christmas will come to every level of Arcvale once more. If she fails, the Turning of the Green will end in disaster—and the holiday season would never be quite the same again.
Genre: Historical
In the steam-powered city of Arcvale, Christmas officially starts with the Turning of the Green—the moment when the great Holly Maker and the legendary Mistletoe Machine fill every level with twining garlands of red and white.
But this year, the ancient Mistletoe Machine has fallen silent.
Lady Dorothea Renslow has always had a talent her ambitious parents dismiss—a ‘knack’ for gears, cogs, and clockwork. After one restriction too many, she flees the marble halls of Upper Arcvale, vanishes down to the lowest levels and into the smoky Undercroft, determined to build a life where no one can tell her what a lady must or must not be.
Silas Gray, Forge Marshal of Arcvale Foundry & Clockworks, prefers boilers to ballrooms and machines to manners. In the Undercroft he’s simply Silas, a man who works beside his people with soot on his sleeves and a mechanical cat in his kitchen. And he's happy to keep it that way.
When Dorothea reaches the Foundry, sparks fly—of attraction and of invention. And knowing that the Mistletoe Machine might have failed for good, Silas dares to believe that there might be one person in Arcvale who could coax life back into its clock-sick heart: the stubborn, brilliant woman whois rapidly turning his world upside down.
Dorothea plunges into the guts of the ancient mechanism, where forgotten faults, and ghosts of Silas’s past lie buried among the gears. But does he realise that if she succeeds, it will mean facing the Council that condemned him years before… and revealing his true name to the woman who has finally seen him as he is.
If Dorothea can fix the Mistletoe machine, Christmas will come to every level of Arcvale once more. If she fails, the Turning of the Green will end in disaster—and the holiday season would never be quite the same again.
Genre: Historical
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