The Golden Spider, Anne Renwick
The Golden Spider, Anne Renwick
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The Golden Spider

Author: Anne Renwick

Narrator: Timothy Campbell, Zara Hampton-Brown

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Anne Renwick

Published: 10/31/2024


Synopsis

Enjoy this romance by USA Today Bestselling historical fantasy author Anne Renwick where you'll unravel mysteries and defy conventions in a world where danger lurks around every corner...On the foggy streets of Victorian London, secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasyLady Amanda blackmailed her way into a prestigious London medical school…Not the preferred method of entrance, of course, but necessary, for it’s the only way to force Lord Thornton, a professor at the school, to help her perfect her invention: a clockwork spider capable of spinning artificial nerves.And Lord Thornton is interested… but is he interested in Amanda, or simply the invention that could cure his own debilitating injury? Neither one can trust the other, but both know this: any attraction is a danger, any romance forbidden.But when a foreign spy steals the spider and uses it to perform grisly experiments on human subjects, they must set aside both their differences and their growing attraction to capture the killer terrorizing the streets of London. STEP INTO THE ELEMENTAL WEB!Steampunk adventure wrapped around a romance and threaded with biotechnology. Join USA Today bestselling author, Anne Renwick, as she takes you back into an alternate past.ELEMENTAL WEB CHRONICLES: The Golden Spider, The Silver Skull, The Iron Fin, Venomous SecretsELEMENTAL WEB TALES: A Trace of Copper, In Pursuit of Dragons, A Reflection of Shadows, A Snowflake at Midnight, A Ghost in Amber, A Whisper of Bone, Flight of the ScarabELEMENTAL WEB STORIES: The Tin Rose, Kraken and Canals, Rust and SteamFor fans of steampunk and gaslamp fantasy romance, this is a STEAMY romance with a guaranteed happily ever after for women in STEM and the men who are their match.

About Anne Renwick

Though Anne Renwick holds a PhD in biology and greatly enjoyed tormenting the overburdened undergraduates who were her students, fiction has always been her first love. Today, she writes steampunk romance, placing a new kind of biotech in the hands of mad scientists, proper young ladies, and determined villains. Anne is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She lives in Maryland with her family.


Reviews

What a simply fabulous read!!! This is my first time reading Anne Renwick and it won't be the last!!When I first saw this cover it was love at first site! It's so beautifully done. In the last couple of years I've read a couple of steampunk romances and have enjoyed this genre very much. Anne's stor......more

I'm starting this review off by saying I'm not a huge fan of steampunk, but this one was free and the blurb really caught my eye. Thankfully, The Golden Spider lived up to that promise and was a complex but engaging book! The setting is a steampunk version of Victorian England and the plot is heavil......more

Goodreads review by Mei

I love steampunk and this book is really good! Not perfect, but really good! For me it was 4,5 stars rounded to 5. I loved the gadgets and all the pure steampunk side of the story. I didn't loved (but didn't hate either!) the conflicting aspect of the victorian excetating behaviour of women. If they......more