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    The Novelty Maker
    The Novelty Maker
    The Novelty Maker
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    The Novelty Maker

    By Sasha L. Miller

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    As often as he can possibly manage, Cole slips away from the parties and teas inflicted upon him by his mother to visit Harlowe, the brilliant, mercurial novelty maker he met several months ago when commissioning a piece for his mother. Overwhelmed with work, and preferring to avoid people, Harlowe is not an easy person to know, and Cole values too much their hard-won friendship to ever risk it by telling Harlowe of his true feelings. Then Harlowe begins to receive letters from a secret admirer...

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    PublisherSasha L. Miller
    Release dateOct 16, 2019
    ISBN9781393175926
    The Novelty Maker
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    Sasha L. Miller

    Sasha L. Miller spends most of her time writing, reading, or playing with all things website design. She loves telling stories, especially romance, because there’s nothing better than giving people their happily ever afters. When not writing, she spends time cooking, harassing her roommates, and playing with her cats.

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      The Novelty Maker - Sasha L. Miller

      The Novelty Maker

      Sasha L. Miller

      As often as he can possibly manage, Cole slips away from the parties and teas inflicted upon him by his mother to visit Harlowe, the brilliant, mercurial novelty maker he met several months ago when commissioning a piece for his mother. Overwhelmed with work, and preferring to avoid people, Harlowe is not an easy person to know, and Cole values too much their hard-won friendship to ever risk it by telling Harlowe of his true feelings. Then Harlowe begins to receive letters from a secret admirer …

      The Novelty Maker

      By Sasha L. Miller

      All rights reserved.  No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except for the purpose of reviews.

      Edited by Megan Derr

      Cover designed by Megan Der

      This book is a work of fiction and as such all characters and situations are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is coincidental.

      Second Edition August 2019

      Copyright © 2019 by Sasha L. Miller

      Printed in the United States of America

      For Julia

      For being generous and lovely and always so awesome

      <3

      The Novelty Maker

      Cole slipped through the bustling shop, aiming for the door behind the counter. The shop was bustling as usual—the two shop girls had their hands full flitting between customers and the register and the owner was busy showing off his latest creation, some contraption that blatantly ripped off the novelty box Lady Kiely had displayed at her party last week.

      He made it to the back of the shop without being stopped, but the girls knew enough to leave him be and the owner was too busy boasting to notice Cole's presence. The crystal doorknob turned easily under his hand and Cole shut the door quickly behind him.

      It was much quieter back here, though no less crowded. Bits and pieces of half-finished machines covered every surface, surrounded further by tools, bolts, cogs, and shimmering jewels and bulbs. The windows in the back of the room were open, letting in the sea breeze and showing off the ships floating out in the bay below. The city of Cadogan was perched precariously on the cliffs of Shinnick; it followed the edge of the cliffs, dipping down when the cliffs smoothed into a giant bay that was Cadogan's main source of trade.

      Harlowe? Cole called, ducking under the flexing arm of a life-size caricature of the winter spirit. Its head was only half-finished, a toothless smile beaming unnervingly from the lower half of the machine's face. The top half was missing completely, and Cole looked away, heading deeper into the workroom. Are you in here?

      No reply, which wasn't completely unusual. Harlowe tended to get caught up in what he was doing to the point he forgot other people existed and occasionally visited him. There was a steady ratcheting noise coming from the right corner of the room, and Cole headed that way, ducking under a low-hanging chandelier and pausing every so often to admire the half-finished works.

      Harlowe mostly created novelty boxes. They were the latest rage in Cadogan; some of the Ladies in town were in an unspoken contest to see who could commission the most outrageous and outlandish boxes in the city. Cole had seen boxes that did everything from feature a small, dancing figure to those that simulated a small fireworks display when the box was open to those that were of such poor quality that they completely fell apart when they were opened.

      Rounding the edge of the table, Cole found Harlowe was kneeling in front of a work table, carefully ratcheting something into place on the box in front of him. He was slowly ratcheting a bolt into place on the side of long, flat box. The box was a dark blue velvet, covered with delicate gold whorls punctuated by the occasional stylized cog.

      Cole hovered, not willing to break

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