An explorer, a princess, a secret and a sword. A belief that the world can be better. The Mechanical Crown is an epic adventure full of intrigue, mystery and adventure. Plus a bit of romance.
**Selected for the Wattpad Picks FEATURED LIST March 2018**
Amazing cover by @weeknder
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- Introduction from the author
- Survival
- Machinery of state
- Relics
- Cry of the worker
- Before the drop
- The city on the hills
- Ring of chalk
- Melt
- Blind Faith
- All seasons end
- Appearances
- Harbinger
- The Ice Runner
- Arranging the board
- Legacies
- The streets
- Crossing borders
- Things unsaid
- The King's Eyes
- Staring from the gutters
- Factions
- Door breaking
- Airborne
- Convergence
- Tip of the spear
- The times
- In fine company
- Chrysalis
- Predators
- Siege
- Curtain Fall
- Convictions
- Liars and magicians
- The north
- A means of escape
- Questions of fate
- Paralysis of time
- Restless bones
- Misdirection
- The dreaming
- Crossed trajectories
- Festival spirit
- Voices from the past
- On shaking ground
- Lock and key
- Conflicts of interest
- The descent
- Knives
- Taking a breath
- Fault lines
- Rotating the pieces
- Lines of communication
- Retribution
- In pursuit of ghosts
- Remnants
- Gladiator
- Age of impossibility
- A fine coat
- Zephyr's delivery
- The old ways
- We used to be dreamers
- A day as the outsider
- Hour of the wolf
- Between the metal trees
- Desperate measures
- An unwelcome visitor
- A view from the stalls
- The rules of ambition
- A frayed plan
- Trail of broken clues
- An exercise of desperate powers
- Enter the fray
- The other side of the coin
- Lighting the fuse
- The long night
- To dare to hope
- A taste of death
- Through the gates
- Ashes of peace
- The reluctant catalyst
- Crowjun
- The past and future threat
- Tainted promises
- Late warning signs
- Leading the lost
- The ruptured world
- Tangled echoes
- Investigations
- Matters of trust
- The purge
- Fantasia
- Blue skies
- A new truth
- Beware of old gods
- In search of hope
- New alliances
- Notes from above the clouds
- Lines of inheritance
- The ragged edge
- The call of power
- Tranquility rising
- Approaching thunder
- Awakenings
- The fall
- Towards apotheosis
- The way forward
- Survivors
- Traversing neurons
- Waiting for gods
- The search for Kirya
- Regrets of a doomed king
- The rules of magic
- Hidden consequences
- Tumblers falling into place
- Deconstructing fate
- There must be blood
- Triggers
- The precursor war
- The blackening of Bruckin
- Bodies on the line
- When the rains come
- Sufficiently advanced technology
- A homecoming
- You can't go back again
- The fall of the house of Tellador
- After the flames
- The last king of Lagonia
- The betrayer
- Captive thoughts
- A new journey
- Sailing towards the end
- Justice for all
- The Long Descent
- On the other side of the bars
- Sisters
- Automation
- When the revolution comes
- Of gods and monsters
- Improvising at the end of the world
- Pilgrimage
- Facing the past
- Climbing the steps
- Retirement is for the dead
- An expression of violence
- All it takes
- The Mountain Breaker
- The Headland
- A word from the author
- Acknowledgements