Clockwork Souls

Divine Rivals meets Red, White & Royal Blue with a dash of Gideon the Ninth. Enter a reimagined Napoleonic Paris in this queer, steampunk-inspired rivals-to-lovers romantasy, the first in a debut duology. The safety of Paris rests on Adrien Beaumont's shoulders. The city teems with reanimated corpses, courtesy of Victor Frankenstein's technology, and every soulless body is an easy target for demons to possess. As the youngest ever head of the Paris Bureau of Guardians, an administrative office of exorcists that prevents demons from taking over the bodies of soulless Revenants and causing havoc — or at least ensures they fill out the right paperwork to do so — there's a lot riding on his shoulders. And between the danger and the impossible hours, he's barely holding the line. Through it all, he's carrying a secret that could ruin him: his twin sister is dead. Now he's chasing the one thing everyone swears can't be done: he wants to restore her soul. When Zayid Nejem, Adrien's ex-training partner and longtime rival, arrives in pursuit of Frankenstein's lost research on soul resurrection, Adrien grudgingly agrees to help while plotting to steal the notes for himself. But hating Zayid is slowly shifting into falling for him, and the danger only deepens when Zayid turns out to be keeping a devastating secret of his own. As Napoleon's war ignites across Europe and the joint mission brings the two rivals closer together, Adrien will have to figure out who he can trust with the truth . . . and his heart. A deeply yearning romance. A race across Europe. A battle to the death (amidst the undead). And a moment, of course, for a candied almond or two in the first book in a New Adult romantasy duology.