His Clockwork Canary
The Glorious Victorious Darcys
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Publisher Description
History is repeating itself.
For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria’s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride—and redemption. After all, it was Simon’s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys’ reputation.
Simon sets his sights high, targeting no less than the infamous time-travel device that forever changed the world by transporting scientists, engineers, and artists from the twentieth century. The Mod technology was banned and supposedly destroyed, but Simon is sure he can re-create it.
His daring plan draws the attention of Willie G., the Clockwork Canary, London’s sensationalist reporter. Simon soon discovers that Willie is a male guise for Wilhemina Goodenough, the love of his youth, who left him jilted and bitter. He questions her motives even as he falls prey to her unique charm. As the attraction between the two reignites, Simon realizes that this vixen from his past has secrets that could be the key to his future…as long as he can put their history behind him.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ciotta's second Glorious Victorious Darcys installment (after Her Sky Cowboy) explodes into the middle of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee in an alternate England warped by time-traveling hippies. Incorrigibly ham-handed and irresistibly dishy amateur engineer Simon Darcy is hellbent on restoring the Darcy family's fame and fortune before his older twin, Jules, can do so. Simon intends to find the original clockwork propulsion system brought by the Mod Peace Rebels from the love-not-war-making 1960s. He's first hindered and then besotted by the scandal-sheet newshound Clockwork Canary, initially disguised as boy reporter Willie G. but speedily uncorseted into Wilhelmina Goodenough, a Vic-Mod hybrid Freak. Cleverly mixing Simon and Willie's chase for glory with interludes of knee-buckling amatory rapture and hissable flashes of archvillain Lord Bingham, Ciotta rockets raunchily along to a spectacular finale with cameos from earlier characters. Buttressed by a helpful glossary and hinting strongly at a third volume featuring bionic undercover agent Jules, this audacious fantasy romance will have readers goggle-eyed and thirsting for more.
