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The Curious Case of the Clockwork Menace

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Time 3h 37m

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Friends, partners, and professionals. So just why is this case coming between them?

In a Victorian London ruled by the blood-drinking elite, Perry Lowell is a logical and accomplished Nighthawk: a rogue blue blood who tracks murderers and thieves for the Guild. So when she and her charming-but-reckless partner, Garrett, are charged with finding a missing theatre starlet, it should be a simple solve.

But with an entire theatre of suspects, including a flirtatious understudy and whispers of a Clockwork Menace haunting the place, tension is brewing between the pair of them. Can they come together to solve the case - or will it be too late, when the murderer turns his gaze on Perry herself? 

Warning: This is not a HEA. It's a pre-romance novella featuring the couple who will find their HEA in Forged By Desire (OUT NOW). Heads will butt, tempers will flare - and perhaps one of them might come to realise just what the other truly means to them?All Rights Reserved

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