Recommendation: Adventure! Romance! Mad Science!

"Now, this isn't a Heterodyne story like your mama tells you when she tucks you into bed at night ... well, not exactly.

"Oh, we all know they're out there somewhere, fighting the good fight, but right here and right now, the Heterodyne Boys are gone. Their lands are overrun, their machines destroyed, their servants scattered, and nothing remains but their name.

"At least, that's what everyone thinks ... "

Agatha Clay, Transylvania Polygnostic University's least promising student of higher mechanics, is having a terrible day. First she's mugged, then she's late for class, then her mentor is killed before her eyes, and then she wakes up half-dressed in her parents' workshop to face a strange robot and a man who wants to murder her. In a world of Madboys, Clanks, and Jägermonsters, how is one confused girl to survive -- unless she's a Spark?

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