Takiko Pepperharrow, an old friend of Mori's, must investigate. Meanwhile, something strange is happening in a frozen labor camp in Northern Japan. For reasons Mori won't-or can't-share, he is frightened. But while staying with Mori, he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. Thaniel's brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what's really going on. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming translator, and Keita Mori, the watchmaker who remembers the future, are traveling to Japan. Now, Pulley revisits her beloved characters in a sequel that sweeps readers off to Japan in the 1880s, where nationalism is on the rise and ghosts roam the streets. Natasha Pulley's Watchmaker of Filigree Street captivated readers with its charming blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and steampunk.

A lovely blending of steam punk ether science, Japanese historical figures, and a time-defying thriller.' Robin Hobb, author of THE FARSEER TRILOGY As the weather turns bizarrely electrical and ghosts haunt the country from Tokyo to Aokigahara forest, Thaniel grows convinced that it all has something to do with Mori's disappearance-and that Mori may be in serious danger.

The lost future of pepperharrow