Keeper of the Mechanical Insects

Finalist in the 2022 American Writing Awards.

The world changed while she hid in her grief.
Inventions from another world launch her into an adventure to save England.

Millie Day shut out the world after her husband died, but the world changed without her. Trouble explodes through her cellar wall in the form of a mysterious vortex through which mechanical devices arrive from another world. A ruthless inventor leads her on an adventure through the skies and even an attack on the Tower of London to save both the life of her new best friend and the future of Great Britain itself. A steampunk adventure novella.