A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

A missing inventor’s clues send two unlikely companions on a whimsical journey across Europe.

London, England, 1860. When Clara’s ex-fiancé spreads rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, she must protect them from his schemes, society’s prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then her grandfather Drosselmeyer takes on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.

Theodore Kingsley, a shame-chased vagabond haunted by war, wants a fresh start far from the father who declared him dead. Drosselmeyer hires him as an apprentice, much to Clara’s dismay.

When Drosselmeyer disappears in his secret flying owl machine, he leaves Clara a note urging her to make her dreams of adventure a reality by joining him on a scavenger hunt across Europe. Clara and Theodore follow his trail of clues, but a villain wants the flying machine for himself, at any cost.