Soon Lily and Robert must escape men with mirror-eyes and find themselves in the midst of an airship fight that will lead them straight into the heart of steampunk London.

The young girl is swept into an adventure when she meets Robert, the son of a local mechanic, and Malkin, a mechanical fox who has a message from her father. Her life takes a dramatic turn when her housekeeper shows up to take Lily home after her father is presumed missing or dead when his zeppelin mysteriously vanishes.

She would rather read her penny dreadfuls and dream of amazing adventures. Gr 5-8-This series introduces Lily, a young girl at Miss Octavia Scrimshaw's Finishing Academy, who is having a hard time fitting in and keeping up with her studies. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. With the help of a clockmaker's son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, Lily escapes London in search of the one person who might know something about her father's disappearance-and what he left behind. And all he left behind is a small box-with no key, no hinges. But if he made such a miraculous discovery, he certainly never told Lily. There are rumors, Lily learns, that her father had invented the most valuable invention ever made-a perpetual motion machine. But what could they possibly want from her? Mysterious, silver-eyed men are lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their chance to strike. Now cared for by her guardian, the heartless Madame Verdigris, Lily is quite certain that she's being watched. But after her father-a famous inventor-disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily's life gets turned upside down. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. Thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman always dreamed of adventure.

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