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 âinventionâ is a curse word.
Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, who died in an explosionâan 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 theyâve ever seen before. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded onâand quite possibly their very lives.
Fires of Invention (The Mysteries of Cove Series) - J. Scott Savage
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 âinventionâ is a curse word.
Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, who died in an explosionâan 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 theyâve ever seen before. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded onâand quite possibly their very lives.