
Written by Jaclyn Dolamore
A singer's new job with a sorcerer's automaton reveals dark secrets and a trapped fairy prince.
Nimira, a music-hall performer, hopes for a better life when a sorcerer hires her to sing with his automaton. But she uncovers dark secrets and a fairy prince trapped within the machine. As love blossoms, Nimira must race against time to break the curse and save the magical world from peril. Can she unravel the mysteries before it's too late?
Nimira is a foreign music-hall girl forced to dance for pennies. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to sing with a piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new and better life. In Parry’s world, however, buried secrets are beginning to stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumors swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry’s involvement with a league of sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. Then Nimira discovers the spirit of a fairy gentleman named Erris is trapped inside the clockwork automaton, waiting for someone to break his curse. The two fall into a love that seems hopeless, and breaking the curse becomes a race against time, as not just their love, but the fate of the entire magical world may be in peril.
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