![]() ![]() ![]() What could they want from her With her friends Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin her mechanical fox Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. With the help of a clockmaker’s son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, Lily escapes London in search of the one person who might know something about her father’s disappearance-and what he left behind. The Cogheart Adventures by Peter Bunzl are fantastic middle-grade adventures for ages 9+. Shortlisted: 2018 Cogheart Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat Lily’s life is in mortal peril. And all he left behind is a small box-with no key, no hinges. ![]() But if he made such a miraculous discovery, he certainly never told Lily. But what could they possibly want from her? There are rumors, Lily learns, that her father had invented the most valuable invention ever made-a perpetual motion machine. Mysterious, silver-eyed men are lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their chance to strike. Now cared for by her guardian, the heartless Madame Verdigris, Lily is quite certain that she’s being watched. But after her father-a famous inventor-disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily’s life gets turned upside down. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. Thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman always dreamed of adventure. ![]()
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