The Inventor's Son: The Beginning
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It begins with a meeting... where a promising new technology for amputees and soldiers is demonstrated. But soon, the truth is discovered: the mastermind who created such miraculous prosthetic limbs is not interested in a business deal. He only wants to ruin the family of his former student, Marcus Stanwood.
Marcus knows firsthand of his former mentor's cruelty, and sets a desperate plan in motion. The fate of his son Ethan hinges on his success or failure in this introduction to a paranormal Steampunk series set in a Victorian London that could have been.
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