The Clockwork Heir

She was hired to fix a clock. She found a king made of clockwork.

In the smog-choked empire of Brassmoor, the boy-king Aurelian is the nation's beloved orphan, a face on every tea tin and biscuit tin from the gleaming Crown to the soot-black Undergear. In two months he comes of age, and the whole city is waiting to see what kind of king he'll be.

Wren Tallow knows something nobody else does. When the young king freezes mid-speech in front of fifty thousand people, she is the only one who hear...