What It Is to Do Good - Paperback

by Thomas J. H. Boggis (Author)

'This may already sound dangerous and perhaps too high a price to pay, but the reward is just and fair. If you aid us, we can save your mother's life, so please... will you help?'

When a shapeshifting stranger - dressed like a Victorian gentleman - appears in her garden, young Clara Brown is drawn into another world on the strength of a promise - a promise to save her ailing mother's life.

She soon begins to question her decision when she finds herself in a violent and dying land, being hunted by terrifying beings of flesh and metal - powered by steam and malice - as she journeys with her guide across a blighted realm he believes she can save.

But Clara has no idea what she can do to help and cannot fight the feeling of unreality that pervades her, nor forget the dark secret she has buried deep within...