Clockwork Thorns Inside the Blind Prince

von Christie Walton

166 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A marriage forged in cold brass. A bride bred as an alchemical solvent. A prince whose grief turns the gears of a dying empire.Sent across the iron bridge into the frozen citadel of Oakhaven, Princess Giselle knows her place: an ash-clad bride bartered away in the cold statecraft of her ruthless father. Her new home is a mausoleum of gilded horrors, shrouded in eternal fog and populated by an enameled porcelain aristocracy whose mechanical smiles click in unnatural cadence. At the center of this uncanny court stands Prince Anthony Hale-an ethereal youth veiled beneath a blindfold of beaten lead and lace. Anthony speaks in tragic whispers of an incurable "rust-plague" petrifying his body. Yet, when Giselle lays her cheek against his chest, she hears not the pulse of a human heart, but the rhythmic, chilling tick of a maritime escapement.As Giselle searches for a cure, Oakhaven's delicate veneer fractures into a nightmare of brass and bone. In the subterranean workshops beneath the infirmary, she uncovers the truth behind her husband's affliction: Anthony is not a sick mortal, but a masterwork synthetic construct, built to believe he is dying so that the raw kinetic power of his sorrow will fuel the citadel's Great Engine. His childhood memories are etched cylinders; his tears are calculated fuel. Yet beneath the vellum skin and grinding cogs beats an innocence so pure it shatters Giselle's guarded heart-awakening a fierce, forbidden devotion she was never meant to feel.When Giselle slips into the predatory Briarwood to reclaim Anthony's severed conscience, the forest's iron thorns tear her flesh-only for her spilled blood to hiss, dissolve the metal, and reveal her father's ultimate treachery. Reared on alchemical vitriol, Giselle is a walking weapon: a living solvent engineered to dissolve the ancient root-wards and unleash the rabid Rust Beast upon Oakhaven. Worse, the court's porcelain lords now sharpen their scalpels, plotting to vivisect Giselle and graft her living heart and marrow directly into Anthony's hollow chassis.With the Winter Solstice striking midnight and warhorns echoing on the horizon, Giselle must navigate a labyrinth of mechanical deceit, ancestral guilt, and rising ruin. To save the only creature who ever offered her tenderness, she must weave living briars into brass and make an impossible choice: extinguish the machine that keeps him whole, or ignite a clockwork monarch who will burn the world to ash.Immerse yourself in Clockwork Thorns Inside the Blind Prince, an atmospheric gaslamp gothic romance perfect for fans of dark fairy tales, intricate clockwork aesthetics, and devastating romantic tension.

• Themen: Belletristik Liebesromane / Romance Romantasy, paranormal
• ISBN: 9798182776554
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Christie Walton