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Hidden City of Alchemy
Hidden City of Alchemy
Hidden City of Alchemy
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Hidden City of Alchemy is a Steampunk adventure injected with just the right amount of science fiction, romance, and historical fiction, to keep the reader on their toes. A smart and brave heroine with a love for inventing discovers a dangerous family secret in a diary after her mother is kidnapped by German spies. Lizzie must leave London and travel to France while learning the shocking truth about her ancestor and about a chemical which could destroy the world, if it should fall into the wrong hands.

AU UPDATE 2.28.2020:
“An exciting ride through a steampunk world filled with adventure.
Surprises around every corner!” - Madolyn Locke, award-winning
author of ‘The Quilt’

Stand-alone steampunk tale from Melissa Coleman 5-star readers favourite award-winning author of A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes and The Halfling.
Young English woman, Elizabeth Peters has a ski-sloped nose, a hereditary defect from her father’s side. But what is distinguishable about her is her intelligence.
She’d rather spend her time inventing gadgets, redesigning engineering contraptions and doing word puzzles than becoming a respectable housewife as her mother wishes.
Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down one evening when she arrives home to find the house has been ransacked and her mother missing from her basement workshop – presumably kidnapped by German spies.
After sifting through the wreckage, she discovers a dangerous family secret in a peculiar-looking cryptic diary, a strange talking ring and a French man - Albert Bourdillon.
Lizzie must leave London and travel to France while learning the shocking truth about the owner of the diary and about a chemical which could destroy the world, if it should fall into the wrong hands.
A chemical threat so lethal it could destroy herself, the people she loves and the world.
Hidden City of Alchemy is a Steampunk adventure injected with just the right amount of science fiction, romance, and historical fiction, to keep the reader on their toes.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 29, 2020
ISBN9781504321020
Hidden City of Alchemy
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Melissa H Coleman

Melissa's debut novel, The Halfling, was awarded 5-star reviews from Readers Favourite and her second offering likewise received great reviews, earning 5-stars. Her journalistic writings have appeared in Regional and National newspapers, and online media outlets. You can visit Melissa's blog for news, reviews and upcoming events or the latest progress on future novels and short stories. In 2018, Melissa married her best friend and changed her name to reflect that. Contact Melissa Coleman: Website: www.melissahcoleman.com Email: wordsmith@melissahcoleman.com Social media: @melhnorthauthor Goodreads: Melissa H. North AU UPDATE: Award-winning author Melissa Coleman published her first Steampunk anthology - A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes - in 2017. She is a freelance journalist, a bibliophile, and a karaoke champion, although her pet Maremma would beg to differ. Through her books Melissa provides a glimpse into her imagination, unfettered by the laws of logic and probability, a most anomalous wordsmith. She loves to transport readers to a time when zeppelins and automatons are considered the norm and where heroes with retrofuturistic gadgets monopolise the page.

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