The Mysteries of Cove Series - Book 1
Fires of Invention
“Savage has created an ingenious steampunk world…Trenton will be a firm friend to any readers who long to use their talents to make their world better.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A Kansas State Reading Circle Recommendation
Finalist for the Indiana Young Hoosier Award
Trenton Colman is exceptionally creative with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a crime and "invention" is a curse word.
Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, who died in an explosion-an event the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity.
Working together, Trenton and Kallista learn that Leo Babbage was developing a secret project before he perished. Following clues he left behind, they begin to assemble a strange machine that is unlike anything they've ever seen before. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded on-and quite possibly their very lives.
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