Clockwork Souls

Reanimated corpses roam the streets of Paris, courtesy of Necroware, a soulless technology inspired by Victor Frankenstein’s experiments. These Revenants make excellent workers: they don’t need lunch breaks, never complain about overtime, and are surprisingly good at following orders considering they can’t actually think. The only downside? Without souls, Revs are the perfect vessels for demons trying to sneak onto Earth. Which means the elite exorcist order known as the Guardians is utterly overwhelmed these days.

 

Twenty-year-old Adrien Beaumont is the youngest ever head of the Paris Bureau of Guardians. He’s also a liar—his twin sister, Elise, has been dead for six weeks. Officially, she’s on a silent spiritual retreat. Unofficially, Adrien used black-market Necroware to reanimate her body and has been faking her presence ever since. But a walking corpse isn’t enough. Adrien wants to achieve the impossible: restoring her soul.

 

When Zayid Nejem—Adrien’s ex-training partner, longtime rival, and world-class arrogant jerk—shows up in Paris chasing Frankenstein’s lost research on soul resurrection, Adrien spots an opportunity. He offers to help, while quietly plotting to steal the notes for himself. But deception gets complicated when the target is beautiful, brilliant, and keeps smirking at Adrien like he knows exactly what he’s doing to Adrien’s blood pressure.

 

The search drags Zayid and Adrien from the treacherous Parisian catacombs to the glittering halls of St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace, and into the twisted chambers of Prague’s alchemists. Yet somewhere between near-death encounters, Adrien finds himself falling for the one person he’s supposed to betray.

 

However, Adrien isn’t the only one with secrets. Zayid is changing, and what’s surfacing inside him may not be human at all. Adrien wanted to bring back one soul. He didn’t expect to risk losing another.

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Tundra Books