This book is a mashup of mystery, magic, romance and historical fiction and I wanted to like it just based on that. Despite that, it was rather lacking in romance and the magic was rather minimal. The heroine, India Steele, is reaching a point of desperation as the book begins. Her father is recently deceased, and the man she was engaged to has snatched her inheritance out from under her. Well, the shop had been left to the fiance, because of course a woman couldn’t […]
“It takes more than trinkets and promises to intrigue me now.”
Miss India Steele is down on her luck. She has recently lost her father, and her fiance has dropped her after taking over her father’s shop in Victorian London. It is in that shop that she meets the mysterious Mr. Matthew Glass while confronting her ex. Mr. Glass employs her to help him find a watchmaker in London who created an absolutely unique pocket watch, and is the only one who can repair it. Miss Steele helps Mr. Glass, meeting his strange bunch of family […]