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Steam & Sorrow: The Clockwork Pharaoh
Paperback
FantasyScience FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Paris Victor Publishing
Published: Sep 18 2025
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Time is unraveling in Neo-Khem, and only a disgraced priestess can solve the mystery that threatens to erase history itself.
In the gleaming brass metropolis of Neo-Khem, where ancient Egyptian deities rule through divine technology and steam-powered magic, the immortal Clockwork Pharaoh's mechanical heart has begun to falter. As his sacred timepieces glitch and stutter, ghostly echoes of the past ripple through the city's steam-filled streets, and citizens vanish without a trace.
Mira Nefra-once a revered techno-priestess, now a cynical gear-smith detective with a gift for fixing the unfixable-wants nothing to do with the temple hierarchy that cast her out. But when her former mentor recruits her to investigate the Pharaoh's mysterious malfunction, Mira finds herself pulled into a conspiracy spanning millennia. Armed with her unique blend of engineering brilliance and forgotten religious knowledge, she must navigate a treacherous landscape of rival gods, revolutionary gear-smiths, and time-traveling scarabs that burrow through reality itself.
As temporal distortions tear at the fabric of Neo-Khem, Mira uncovers shocking truths about the city's founding and her own disgrace. The eccentric philosopher Ptah-hotep offers cryptic guidance from his steam-powered barrel home, while the charismatic rebel leader Talos tempts her with promises of a world free from divine control. Meanwhile, the ancient god Sutekh plots to use the Pharaoh's weakness to unleash chaos upon the eternal empire.
With reality fracturing around her, Mira must make an impossible choice: restore the divine order that rejected her, join the revolution that might destroy everything, or forge an entirely new path through the timestream. The clock is ticking, history is unwriting itself, and Mira's sardonic wit may be the only constant in a world where past, present, and future collide.
STEAM & SORROW combines the intricate clockwork mystery of a steampunk detective tale with the epic scope of Egyptian mythology, all wrapped in a layer of existential dread and dry humor. In this brass-and-hieroglyph metropolis where soul magic fuses with industrial innovation, discover if humanity's ingenuity can stand against the will of machine-gods who've ruled for eternity-or if some gears were never meant to be tinkered with.
Unravel the mystery. Challenge divinity. Rewrite time itself.
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