The Golden Spider. Elemental Web Chronicles, #1

On the foggy streets of Victorian London, secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasy. Lady 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 Secrets, Icy BetrayalsELEMENTAL 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 Steam For 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.