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The Clockwork Giant

Name: The Clockwork Giant
Author: Brooke Johnson
ISBN: 9781468057492

by Brooke Johnson

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Overview

In an age of science, even the most unlikely engineer can change the world.

Chroniker City, 1881

Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible career for an impoverished shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, willing to do anything to work in the Guild’s exclusive workshops. When she meets Emmerich Goss, she finally finds the opportunity she’s been searching for.

Newly recruited into the Guild, Emmerich needs help designing a new power system for a top-secret, Guild-sanctioned automaton, and he is convinced that only Petra can help him. But if her involvement on the project is discovered, Emmerich will be marked for treason, and Petra will only be so lucky.

Working in secret, together they build the clockwork giant, but as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra discovers a sinister conspiracy from within the Guild council…

Their automaton is only the beginning.

About the Author, Brooke Johnson

Brooke Johnson is the author of The Clockwork Giant, the first book in the Chroniker City series, a steampunk trilogy for young adults. Her love of clocks and all things mechanical started at a young age, and at long last, she found the right words to put it all into a story. She is currently working on a new, young adult fantasy set in a world based on Ancient Persia.

Brooke lives in Northwest Arkansas with her husband and dog, where she works as the editor for Hogglepot, a science fiction and fantasy literary journal. She likes playing Dungeons & Dragons, going to Renaissance Faires, and working on craft projects. When she grows up, she wants to be a time traveler, a deep space explorer, a renowned bard, and of course, a wizard. And she plans to write about all of it along the way.