A boy discovers a mysterious mechanical world he may never escape in
this steampunk fantasy that's "a thrill a minute" (Kirkus Reviews),
set in nineteenth-century England.
Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a
different London.
Londinium is a smoky, dark, and dangerous place, home to mischievous
metal fairies and fearsome clockwork dragons that breathe scalding
steam. The people wear goggles to protect their eyes, brass grill insets
in their nostrils to filter air, or mechanical limbs to replace missing
ones.
Over it all rules the Lady, and the Lady has demanded a new son--a
perfect flesh-and-blood child. She has chosen Jack. His only hope of
escape lies with a legendary clockwork bird.
The Gearwing grants wishes--or it did, before it was broken--before it
was killed. But some things don't stay dead forever.
Fans of books like Splendors and Glooms and Doll Bones will find
Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times irresistible!