Synopsis:
Hazel Hughes has spent her life believing she is a Medium—someone who
can talk to ghosts. But as of yet, that skill has remained
frustratingly elusive. She is also suffering from a reoccurring
childhood dream of someone who looks almost exactly like Hazel,
but this dream version of herself is slowly going mad.
Sam MacInnes is a talented surgeon who runs in the highest social
circles thanks to his family’s position and history. When Sam hires
Hazel to assist him with his medical practice, he is immediately drawn
to her intelligence, wit, and beauty.
Their potential relationship is derailed one evening when a mysterious
count arrives in London and reveals to Hazel the truth about her past:
she was abducted at birth and her twin sister has fallen dangerously
ill.
Hazel agrees to travel to Romania with Count Petrescu in order to save
her sister, and Sam insists on accompanying her. The count has secrets,
though, and the journey grows more sinister with every mile that draws
Hazel closer to her homeland. Even as her feelings
for Sam become deeper and more complicated, she fears she might not
survive the quest to save her sister with her heart intact, not to
mention her life. She must learn to draw on gifts she doesn’t know she
has if they are going to ever return home again.
Hazel and Sam must fight their way past dark magic, clockwork beasts,
and their own insecurities as they try to reach her sister in the
impenetrable Coppergate Tower before time runs out.
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About the Author:
Nancy Campbell Allen is the author of 14
published novels and several novellas, which encompass a variety of
genres from contemporary romantic suspense to historical fiction. Her
Civil War series, Faith of our Fathers, won the Utah Best of State award
in 2005, and two of her historicals featuring Isabelle Webb, Pinkerton
spy, were finalists for the Whitney Award. Her steampunk novel, Beauty
and the Clockwork Beast, was released August, 2016, through Shadow
Mountain. She served on the 2015 LDStorymakers Conference Committee and
currently serves as the contest coordinator for The Teen Writers
Conference. She has presented at numerous conferences and events since
her initial publication in 1999.
Her formal schooling includes a
B.S. in Elementary Education from Weber State University and she has
worked as a ghost writer and freelance editor, contributing to the
releases, We Knew Howard Hughes, by Jim Whetton, and My Life
Encapsulated, by Kenneth Brailsford.
Her agent is Pamela Howell of D4EO Literary Agency.
Nancy
loves to read, write, travel and research, and enjoys spending time
laughing with family and friends. She and her husband have three
children, and she lives in Ogden, Utah with her family and one very
large Siberian Husky named Thor.
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