The City of Broken Laurels: A Clockwork Adventure Through Time

The stopwatch has chosen again and this time, Elias Vane has landed in ancient Rome.Except this is no Rome he has ever heard of.Towering aqueducts power enormous machines. Brass chariots thunder through crowded streets. Airships drift above marble temples. And beneath the Colosseum, mechanical lions are waiting.When Elias's mysterious brass stopwatch begins counting down, it gives him only one warning: THE CITY WILL KNEEL.With the help of Marcus, a quick-thinking young Roman mechanic, Elias discovers that someone has secretly redirected the enormous pressure system that powers the city. Hidden beneath Rome is something far more dangerous than either of them expected - an ancient mechanical army of bronze soldiers, lions, eagles, and siege machines waiting to awaken.But the machines are not the strangest thing Elias finds.In a quiet courtyard stands a marble statue of a young woman called Aurelia, the First Engineer.Her face looks almost exactly like Clara Wren the girl Elias met hundreds of years in the future.That should be impossible.With the countdown racing toward zero, Elias must survive mechanical beasts, uncover a plot that could bring Rome to its knees, and discover why the past seems to remember people who have not even been born yet.The City of Broken Laurels: A Clockwork Adventure Through Time is a fast-paced illustrated adventure filled with time travel, ancient Rome, steampunk machinery, mystery, humour, mechanical creatures, and cinematic anime-inspired artwork.And when the stopwatch reaches zero, Elias's journey is only beginning.