num_pages: 320
description: Follow a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries.Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past...Russia 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin the tsar's loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time possessed with uncanny power and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries.The Clockwork Dynasty interweaves past and present exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles yet constantly searching for meaning. As June plunges deeper into their world her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination.
language: English
title: The Clockwork Dynasty
publisher: Books on Tape