A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

Author(s)/Editor(s): Bell, Angela - - Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20240227Standardized Book Category: Christian - Romance - HistoricalLanguage: EnglishPage Count: 00384Large Print? : N Publisher Marketing: Named a Booklist Top 10 Romance Debut Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane.London, England, 1860When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's Grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.Theodore Kingsley, a shame-chased vagabond haunted by the war, wants a fresh start far from Kingsley Court and the disappointed father who declared him dead. Upon returning to England, Theodore meets clockmaker Drosselmeyer, who hires him as an apprentice,