![]() ![]() Sitting was for those in command, walking for the commanded. WHEN LORCAN WALKED, He did so deliberately, slowly, as if to gauge just how deeply his fine shoes sank into the mud. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.įlights and Chimes and Mysterious Times CHAPTER ONE But some things don’t stay dead forever.įans of books like Splendors and Glooms and Doll Bones will find Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times irresistible! The Gearwing grants wishes-or it did, before it was broken-before it was killed. ![]() ![]() His only hope of escape lies with a legendary clockwork bird. Over it all rules the Lady, and the Lady has demanded a new son-a perfect flesh-and-blood child. The people wear goggles to protect their eyes, brass grill insets in their nostrils to filter air, or mechanical limbs to replace missing ones. Londinium is a smoky, dark, and dangerous place, home to mischievous metal fairies and fearsome clockwork dragons that breathe scalding steam. Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a different London. 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. ![]()
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