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<p>Enjoy this story by historical fantasy romance author Anne Renwick where you'll unravel mysteries and defy conventions in a world where danger lurks around every corner. You’ll find forbidden romance, evil villains and mad science...</p><p><br></p><p>When science and secrets collide, where cures can kill, and the best intentions lead to deadly peril.</p><p><br></p><p>Determined to avoid an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stowed away inside a dirigible.</p><p><br></p><p>Only to find herself imprisoned in a castle with no hope of rescue. So much for proving herself a worthy spy. Worse, survival hinges upon feigning marriage to the suspected double agent she was tailing—the handsome scientist Lord Rathsburn.</p><p><br></p><p>A mad count has kidnapped Rathsburn’s sister, and demands as the price of her freedom Rathsburn’s greatest invention: a bone-hardening technology to transform the count’s guardsmen into invincible soldiers.</p><p><br></p><p>Neither can trust the other. But their lives depend on working together: to keep their captors off-balance long enough to perfect Rathsburn’s technology, free his sister, escape the clutches of the count and—most of all—to keep this groundbreaking research out of enemy hands.</p><p><br></p><p>STEP INTO THE ELEMENTAL WEB!</p><p>The Silver Skull is the second story in the Elemental Web Chronicles, although all books in the Elemental Web (Chronicles, Tales &amp; Stories) can be read as standalones. Steampunk and gaslamp romance for fans of Meljean Brook, Bec McMaster, Gail Carriger, and Jacquelyn Benson — a world of Victorian romance, speculative science, and heroines who defy society’s expectations… all threaded with whispers of myth, monsters, and magic.</p>