When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires young Nimira to perform with a piano playing automaton, Nimira believes it is her ticket to a better life. But his estate is not the glittering world she expects. She encounters a madwoman roaming the halls at night and a mechanical man so realistically crafted it hardly seems possible he isn’t alive...or is he? Nimira senses something stirring beneath his handsome features, is he haunted or is there something more to it? What she finds will put the fate of the entire magical world in danger—and force her to choose between a man she cannot have and a man she does not love.