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Prehistoric Clock

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Airship officer Verity Champlain is well-respected by her crew. But after a vital mission nearly goes wrong, she is having second thoughts about her career.

Lord Garrett Embrey is on the run. The Leviacrum Council, the secretive scientific body that holds sway over the Empire, executed his father and uncle and now they want him dead too.

Professor Cecil Reardon is consumed by grief. Since his wife and son died he's been obsessed with his work, and now he is on the verge of an extraordinary scientific breakthrough: his machine is about to breach time itself, to undo fate's cruel taking of his loved ones.

But the time jump doesn't go according to plan, and part of London winds up millions of years in the past. Verity and her crew--Lord Embrey, Professor Reardon and others stranded with them--must pull together to survive in a world ruled by dinosaurs...and to somehow get home.

58,000 words

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 19, 2011
      A science experiment gone horribly wrong is the catalyst for this fast-paced steampunk adventure. Prof. Cecil Reardon invents a way to travel back in time, but his machine accidentally transports a chunk of London from 1908 to some nine million years into the past, taking dozens of people along. Among the time-lost are Lord Garrett Embrey, who’s fleeing a corrupt government that’s branded his family as traitors, and Capt. Verity Champlain and her airship and crew. These unlikely allies must survive dinosaurs and internal squabbling if they ever want to go home. With a high concept worthy of Verne or Doyle, Appleton (The Mysterious Lady Law) focuses on action and pseudo-scientific accuracy, but fails to create emotional resonance. Too much development takes place offscreen, while the ending clearly sets up future stories at the cost of tying up this one.

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