Kady Cross is a pseudonym for bestselling author Kathryn Smith. Her work is known for blending elements of romance and mystery, often set against historical backdrops. She excels at crafting narratives with strong female protagonists and intricate plots that draw readers into suspenseful storylines.
520 In 1897, part-automaton Mila seeks an independent life in London's West End while Finley Jane plunges headlong into the Aether, hoping to outmaneuver the Machinist who has taken Griffin King captive.
In New York City, 1897, life has never been more thrilling-or dangerous
In 1897 London, mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, prompting her friends Finley and others to fear for their lives. To save them, Emily must transplant the consciousness of their enemy, The Machinist, into an automaton. As challenges arise, Emily must find hidden strength to confront a powerful creation.
Wren Noble is dead--she was born that way. Vibrant, unlike other dead things, she craves those rare moments when her twin sister allows her to step inside her body and experience the world of the living. Lark Noble is alive but often feels she belongs in the muted Shadow Lands--the realm of the dead. Known as the crazy girl who talks to her dead sister, she doesn't exactly fit in with the living, though a recent suicide attempt and time in a psych ward have proved to her she's not ready to join her sister in the afterlife. Now the guy who saved Lark's life needs her to repay the favor. He and his friends have been marked for death by the malevolent spirit of a vicious and long-dead serial killer, and the twins--who should know better than to mess with the dead--may be their only hope of staying alive.
Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffin's army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.