The Silver Skull
A Historical Fantasy Romance
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When science and secrets collide, where cures can kill, and the best intentions lead to deadly peril.
Determined to avoid an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stowed away inside a dirigible.
Only to find herself imprisoned in a castle with no hope of rescue. So much for proving herself a worthy spy. Worse, survival hinges upon feigning marriage to the suspected double agent she was tailing—the handsome scientist Lord Rathsburn.
A mad count has kidnapped Rathsburn’s sister, and demands as the price of her freedom Rathsburn’s greatest invention: a bone-hardening technology to transform the count’s guardsmen into invincible soldiers.
Neither can trust the other. But their lives depend on working together: to keep their captors off-balance long enough to perfect Rathsburn’s technology, free his sister, escape the clutches of the count and—most of all—to keep this groundbreaking research out of enemy hands.
STEP INTO THE ELEMENTAL WEB!
Steampunk adventure wrapped around a romance and threaded with biotechnology. Join USA Today bestselling author, Anne Renwick, as she takes you back into an alternate past.
ELEMENTAL WEB CHRONICLES: The Golden Spider, The Silver Skull, The Iron Fin, Venomous Secrets
ELEMENTAL WEB TALES: A Trace of Copper, In Pursuit of Dragons, A Reflection of Shadows, A Snowflake at Midnight, A Ghost in Amber, A Whisper of Bone, Flight of the Scarab
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Customer Reviews
Wonderful, Don’t Hesitate!
This second book in the series is a thrill ride from the moment it starts. The lead characters of Lady Olivia Ravensdale and Lord Ian Rathsburn together are wonderful.
Their chemistry, friendship and humour is enchanting, while this story takes you on a roller coaster of an adventure. Laced with medical breakthroughs, double agents, heartless villains, the story takes you through their love and heartache as they search to validate Ian’s innocence.
Anne cleverly weaves Victorian life with its constraints on women and Olivia’s life, including her parents expectations, which happen to be rather negative, showing what life would have been like for a ‘society’ lady of the Ton.
I loved Olivia’s inner strengths and doubts and Ian was a true hero. Wonderful, don’t hesitate!