He’s a typical teen guy who craves an adventure to escape reality. She’s a steampunk cowboy with a body that won’t quit—stuck inside a gilded cage—whose only dream is to escape the fantasy and find the real world.Wyll's an everyday teenage guy fixing his car when he finds a door to another world and gets stuck on the other side. He sets off to discover the strange steampunk city, and people angrily wave him away, but a kind man takes him in, then secretly spirits him away in the night. When Wyll meets Sira, he has no idea who she is or why she's the only one who understands him, but he decides to stay a while … besides, he's stuck.Sira’s burning goal is to escape the mechanical city and her tyrant father, and Wyll’s lack of emotional maturity does not impress her. Still, she keeps him hidden and safe from her dystopian world. A friends-to-lovers journey is still just a dream when Wyll is caught by the authorities and taken to a cave of horrors where the king turns him into a double agent. Wyll is roped, unwillingly at first, into a rebellion.Wyll is torn. If he tells the rebels about the deception, they will turn on him, but the king has promised to send him away from the nightmare if he succeeds. Then again, who would want to leave a cool place with a flying ship, rocket packs, robots, goggles, gears, and handle-bar mustaches? Pulled between both groups like a tug-of-war, Wyll must weigh his desire to go home with his brand-new feelings of bravery, selflessness, and loyalty to the resistance. But which party will win, and who is lying to him?Join the readers who love this dark fantasy world of clockwork people suffering horrifying consequences for betraying their maker, and see if Wyll’s identity forms in love’s adolescence. One-click today! Then come back to share your experience!Hollywood Book Festival: 2023 First Place Award Winner—Young Adult Category[:A young adult novel with a reverse Beauty and the Beast concept; the handsome 'prince' must find his humanity, then become a beast to escape a dark steampunk world and be with the girl he loves.]
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