Jaclyn Dolamore lives in Florida, USA. This is her first book and it marks the debut of a very exciting new talent.

Nimira is a music-hall performer forced to dance for pennies to an audience of leering drunks. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to do a special act - singing accompaniment to an exquisite piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new life.

In Parry's world, however, buried secrets stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumours abound about ghosts, a mad woman roaming the halls, and of Parry's involvement in a gang of ruthless sorcerers who torture fairies for sport.

When Nimira discovers the spirit of a dashing young fairy gentleman is trapped inside the automaton's stiff limbs, waiting for someone to break the curse and set him free, the two fall in love. But it is a love set against a dreadful race against time to save the entire fairy realm, which is in mortal peril.

'A memorable, delicate and ethereal fairytale romance'

'The prose has a delicate, ethereal quality that matches the story well'

'A dark, florid vigour runs through it'

'Precise and picturesque, this is a sterling debut'

A romantic adventure set against the perils of a society under threat