The New Steampunk Tales: the Cogsworth Adventures of Wart and Izzy: Book 2

The posters went up overnight.

Proclamation of the Cogsworth Industrial Council. All inventions must be submitted, sponsored, and tested. By order of Acting Chair T. Greenbrass.

By breakfast, every workshop in Cogsworth has fallen quiet. Even Professor Gearington’s. Even the small back-garden shed where Izzy works while her father starts another early shift at one of Mr. Greenbrass’s factories.

But Cogsworth still has its mysteries. And mysteries don’t wait for paperwork.

Red is disappearing from the city’s most precious paintings. Moustaches are rebelling on the chins of important men. A long-forgotten clockwork giant is stirring in the dark waters of Cogsworth Cove. A phantom is riding the Midnight Express. Something with cog-shaped feet is whispering around a children’s summer camp at night. And somewhere across the city, in a tall house full of clocks that tick exactly together, a boy named Augustus is staring at his own immaculate workshop and not picking up his tools.

Eleven new chapters of mystery, friendship, clever machines, and one very loyal terrier named Whistle.

Big ideas. Wild inventions. Bigger adventures.

Book 2 of The New Steampunk Tales. For curious readers ages 7–10.