Flight of the Scarab - Elemental Web Tales, #7

A Clockwork Scarab. A fairy ring. A Chance to reignite the past. When Julia Marston stumbles upon her estranged husband's lifeless body in a cemetery at dawn, she trips and falls into a fairy ring of softly glowing mushrooms. In the eerie silence, a glinting clockwork scarab takes flight. Has her husband's dark past as an antiquities smuggler finally caught up to him? Will it shatter her present?  Enter Graham Leyton, a man on a mission to retrieve stolen technology.
Equally shocked at her husband's death, he can't help but ponder the possibility of a second chance with the woman he never stopped loving. But the crime scene presents a grim revelation. A once mutual friend, consumed by his obsession with Julia, has reprogrammed the clockwork creature for a sinister purpose: murder. As the race to capture the clockwork scarab unfolds, the past and present collide in a whirlwind of deceit and longing, hurtling toward a confrontation that will define their future.  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 ELEMENTAL 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 ELEMENTAL WEB STORIES: The Tin Rose, Kraken and Canals, Rust and Steam - Available Direct