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Last Thursday, I awoke to learn that I died almost a month ago. I was rebuilt from a highly experimental process of clockwork and cloning, and I don't know why. One man knows my secret - my creator, the lead of the Leona Scientific Laboratory. He says knowledge isn't free. I say that unless I know why I'm here, he's the one who's going to pay.

Die junge Mutter Tiff schlägt sich mit schlecht bezahlten Online-Jobs für die Plattform Automa durch, da sie wegen einer Angststörung ihre Wohnung kaum verlassen kann. Ihre zermürbende Akkordarbeit wird als angebliche Überwachungsleistung einer KI teuer verkauft, weshalb sie zur Verschwiegenheit verpflichtet ist. Doch dann wird sie am Bildschirm Zeugin eines Verbrechens... Ein visionärer Gegenwartsroman, der zwischen der Klaustrophobie der eigenen vier Wände und den Hanffeldern Kaliforniens spielt und von neuen Ausbeutungsverhältnissen und den Chancen virtueller Solidarität erzählt.

Beatrice Knight has enough to contend with: A zebra is dead on her lawn, her horse is possessed, and a gentleman has arrived with the temerity to propose to her. To top it off, her dead husband, Gideon, has absconded with an automaton, threatening to return for his wife. The wife in question, however, soon has other issues, for a killer has moved into town with a nasty habit of carving up the victims. As luck should dictate, who should be the next target but Mrs. Knight herself?

"This story happened when His Majesty was still a young man, a huntsman to be precise. It is the tale of a clockwork machine from the future, with a mission to terminate His Majesty to prevent him from meeting his future queen." Jarvis paused for effect. "Then, she was known only as Snow White."

The adventure continues as Lady Arabella, Rett and friends chase after the evil Dr. Krakov in hopes they can stop his attack on Aereopolis. Faced with albino cannibal pygmies, snow monsters and angry mountain men, while fighting devastating storms against impossible odds, they are forced to use every possible resource to stay alive. Krakov escapes all attempts to thwart him and rains his deadly automatons on the capital city in a conflagration that will spread to the entire world.

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