The Bronze Acrobat of Alexandria
A Roman Circus Techno-Thriller

About this book:

In the shadow of the Great Library, a machine that defies the laws of nature takes its first breath. The Bronze Acrobat—an automaton of mercury-balanced clockwork and magnetic soul—stuns a crowd of eighty thousand Romans and Egyptians with a high-wire performance no human could survive. But when the finale erupts in sabotage and the Acrobat vanishes into the lightless sewers beneath the amphitheater, young mechanic Galen and the acrobat Helena have only hours to recover it before the Imperial Envoy condemns them for treason.

Hunted by legionaries and stalked by a thief who knew the machine's secrets better than its creators, Galen and Helena descend into the flooded arteries of ancient Alexandria. From the steam-driven hypogeum to the forgotten tunnels of the Serapeum, they must decipher a trail of cut cables, alchemical residue, and a compass needle spinning madly toward a conspiracy that reaches from the Guild of Mechanics to the Emperor's own court. The Acrobat isn't just a marvel of engineering—it's a key to something Rome would kill to control.

*The Bronze Acrobat of Alexandria* fuses the grit of historical thriller with the wonder of clockwork fantasy. Hero of Alexandria's lost designs pulse through a breakneck chase across a city where Ptolemaic magic meets Roman iron, and where the line between machine and life blurs with every tick of the escapement. For readers who crave intricate puzzles, vivid antiquity, and a mystery that moves at the speed of a falling counterweight.