The Silver Skull. Elemental Web Chronicles, #2

When science and secrets collide, where cures can kill, and the best intentions lead to deadly peril. Determined to avoid an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stowed away inside a dirigible. Only to find herself imprisoned in a castle with no hope of rescue. So much for proving herself a worthy spy. Worse, survival hinges upon feigning marriage to the suspected double agent she was tailing-the handsome scientist Lord Rathsburn. A mad count has kidnapped Rathsburn's sister, and demands as the price of her freedom Rathsburn's greatest invention: a bone-hardening technology to transform the count's guardsmen into invincible soldiers. Neither can trust the other.
But their lives depend on working together: to keep their captors off-balance long enough to perfect Rathsburn's technology, free his sister, escape the clutches of the count and-most of all-to keep this groundbreaking research out of enemy hands. Enjoy this story by historical fantasy romance author Anne Renwick where you'll unravel mysteries and defy conventions in a world where danger lurks around every corner.? The Silver Skull is a steampunk-infused gaslamp fantasy romance that weaves high-stakes science, espionage, and forced proximity into a deadly alliance.  Imprisoned in a remote castle, a daring woman spy and the scientist she cannot trust must perfect a revolutionary technology-before it turns them into pawns in a deadly game of ambition and war.  The second story in the Elemental Web, The Silver Skull can be enjoyed as a standalone and delivers a steamy romance with a guaranteed happily ever after-where love is as dangerous, and irresistible, as the invention that could save-or doom-England. 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, Black Sand and Blood