<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><em>A clockwork scarab. A fairy ring. A chance to reignite the past.</em></strong></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">When Julia Marston stumbles upon her estranged husband's lifeless body in a cemetery at dawn, she trips and falls into a fairy ring of softly glowing mushrooms. In the eerie silence, a glinting clockwork scarab takes flight. Has her husband's dark past as an antiquities smuggler finally caught up to him? Will it shatter her present?&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Enter Graham Leyton, a man on a mission to retrieve stolen technology. Equally shocked at her husband's death, he can't help but ponder the possibility of a second chance with the woman he never stopped loving. But the crime scene presents a grim revelation. A once mutual friend, now consumed by his obsession with Julia, has reprogrammed the clockwork creature for a sinister purpose: murder.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">As the race to capture the clockwork scarab unfolds, the past and present collide in a whirlwind of deceit and longing, hurtling toward a confrontation that will define their future.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">~</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><span></span>STEP INTO THE ELEMENTAL WEB!</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">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.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">ELEMENTAL WEB CHRONICLES: The Golden Spider, The Silver Skull, The Iron Fin, Venomous Secrets</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">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</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">ELEMENTAL WEB STORIES: The Tin Rose, Kraken and Canals, Rust and Steam</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>