Flight of the Scarab

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, now 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.

Flight of the Scarab is a steampunk-infused gaslamp fantasy romance where stolen antiquities, magical fungi, and mechanical wonders collide-testing loyalty, courage, and second chance love.

The seventh story in the Elemental Web Tales, Flight of the Scarab can be enjoyed as a standalone and delivers a steamy romance with a guaranteed happily ever after-where old flames ignite and secrets from the past collide with danger.

ELEMENTAL WEB CHRONICLES: The Golden Spider, The Silver Skull, The Iron Fin, Venomous Secrets, Icy Betrayals

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, Black Sand and Blood