Pink Chicks Book Corner

Clara Stanton tries her best to take care of her family, and that includes saving them from the threats of her former fiancé. When her grandfather hires a new apprentice to work in his clock making shop, Clara distrusts the motives of the new man. Theodore Kingsley wants to hide from his past: the abusive father and family that was ashamed of him. Drosselmeyer, Clara’s grandfather takes him on as an apprentice and Theodore begins to admire the older inventor with an eccentric family. Clara is convinced her former fiancé, Rupert Forrester, planted Theodore to gain evidence that her grandfather is mentally unstable. Her grandfather sets off in the skies in a flying mechanical owl, the scavenger hunt that Drosselmeyer set up for Clara begins. Clara is joined by her animal loving mother, who it seems can’t abandon any animal, especially three baby foxes, and Theodore who earns her trust eventually. Each clue takes them across Europe, and in these clues her grandfather gives Clara spiritual...