Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her "Mechanica" to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee. Her mum is gone now, though, and the Steps have pushed her into a life of dreary servitude. When she discovers a secret workshop in the cellar on her sixteenth birthday and befriends Jules, a tiny magical metal horse. Nicolette starts to imagine a new life for herself. And the timing may be perfect: There's a technological exposition and a royal ball on the horizon. Determined to invent her own happily-ever-after, Mechanics seeks to wow the prince and eager entrepreneurs alike.

Ash by Malinda Lo meets Marissa Meyer's Cinder: A YA retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor- mechanic who finds her prince but realises she doesn't want a fairy-tale happy ending after all.

Book Information
ISBN 9780544668683
Author Betsy Cornwell
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company