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Astrid Bailey is content living alone, balancing her career as a contract machinist with her true passion: making "felicitation devices" for her discerning female clients. The upcoming World's Fair, with its substantial cash prize, is an opportunity for her to open the shop she's always imagined and solve her financial woes. With questionable credentials, though, she's unable to enter without a reputable businessman to vouch for her.

Eli Rutledge, noted watchmaker, needs to enter the World'...