The Clockwork Sky Volume One: v.1 (Clockwork Sky 1)

From the award-winning creator of Hollow Fields comes the start of an all new steampunk adventure trilogy! . London 1895: Riots in the streets! . Erasmus Croachs miraculous factory Ember has flooded London with steampowered automatons. The already suffering working class take to the streets to protest the jobs lost to these machines and to quell the riot Captain Thorn of Scotland Yard calls in Embers latest and greatest creation the automatic police boy Sky! . Meanwhile Sally Peppers Croachs headstrong and brilliant niece dreams of a life beyond manners and marriageability. When she escapes her overbearing governess on a motorized velocipede and joins a no-rules road rally through the slums Croach sends Sky to bring her back preferably alive. Together the impulsive Sally and the naive Sky crash headlong into a mystery involving rogue automatons prowling the sewers children disappearing without a trace and a dark secret so big it could overturn all of London. But the biggest mystery of all is why Sky is the first robot who can dream....