The Watchmaker's Daughter
India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only...
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India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A ma
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B01DK93WKW
Publisher: C.J. Archer
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Series: Glass and Steele (#1)
Upon starting this book I was worried that it was going to fall into DNF land or at least 2 Star Land at the very least, but you know what? It surprised me! Yes, it has problems. The heroine is sometimes a little slow on the uptake, as my mom used to say and things would have gone much smoother ha...
This just didn't quite work for me. The premise was really sound, and there were parts of it that I enjoyed. But there were also parts that employed tropes that I truly loathe including a female MC who had TSTL moments and the dreaded Big Misunderstanding. The book also ends rather abruptly at 82%...