{"product_id":"the-silver-skull-1","title":"The Silver Skull","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\"\u003eWhen science and secrets collide, where cures can kill, and the best intentions lead to deadly peril.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDetermined to avoid an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stowed away inside a dirigible.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eOnly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eNeither 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eThe Silver Skull is a steampunk-infused gaslamp fantasy romance where a clever woman and a brilliant scientist are trapped together in a German castle, forced into a fake marriage and a single bed. With enemies-to-allies-to-lovers tension, mad science, and medical espionage swirling around them, romance, adventure, and danger spark at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eThe Silver Skull is the second story in the Elemental Web Tales, although all books in the Elemental Web—Chronicles, Tales \u0026amp; Stories—can be enjoyed as standalones. This is a STEAMY read with a guaranteed happily ever after for women in STEM and the men who are their match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eELEMENTAL WEB CHRONICLES: The Golden Spider, The Silver Skull, The Iron Fin, Venomous Secrets, Icy Betrayals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eELEMENTAL 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 Scarab\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eELEMENTAL WEB STORIES: The Tin Rose, Kraken and Canals, Rust and Steam, Black Sand and Blood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne Renwick","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":50775341039920,"sku":"9781948359436","price":29.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-silver-skull-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}