ISBN: 0997437588 9780997437584

Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Historical

Page count: 240

<p>Paris 1880, the City of Electric Light</p><p>Clockwork nobles of the Court promenade through the halls of Versailles, while Watcher spheres and cyborg police menace citizens of France in the streets. </p><p>The Royal Scientist Doctor works frantically on an automaton designed to replace the failing sovereigns, but will it be ready in time to save the monarchy?</p><p>In the cafes of Montmartre, Henri paints the common people chafing under the reign of the Augmented monarchs and dreams of a France free of machines.</p><p>John yearns to capture the essence of beauty in his paintings with the luminous Marie-Ange his muse-and handmaid to the ancient Queen of France. </p><p>With his brother Henri entangled in revolution, he must choose between the artificial beauty of Court and the movement to restore France. </p><p>How much humanity can be lost before you are no longer human?</p>