The Clockwork Giant

In an age of science, even the most unlikely engineer can change the world.
 
Chroniker City, 1881
 
Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible career for an impoverished shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, willing to do anything to work in the Guild's exclusive workshops. When she meets Emmerich Goss, she finally finds the opportunity she's been searching for.
 
Newly recruited into the Guild, Emmerich needs help designing a new power system for a top-secret, Guild-sanctioned automaton, and he is convinced that only Petra can help him. But if her involvement on the project is discovered, Emmerich will be marked for treason, and Petra will only be so lucky.
 
Working in secret, together they build the clockwork giant, but as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra discovers a sinister conspiracy from within the Guild council...
 
Their automaton is only the beginning.