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Thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman always dreamed of adventure. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. But after her father-a famous inventor-disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily's life gets turned upside down. Now cared for by her guardian, the heartless Madame Verdigris, Lily is quite certain that she's being watched. Mysterious, silver-eyed men are lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their chance to strike. But what could they possibly want from her? There are rumors, Lily learns, that her father had invented the most valuable invention ever made-a perpetual motion machine. But if he made such a miraculous discovery, he certainly never told Lily. And all he left behind is a small box-with no key, no hinges. With the help of a clockmaker's son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, Lily escapes London in search of the one person who might know something about her father's disappearance-and what he left behind.

13岁的莉莉·哈特曼一直梦想着冒险。莉莉是一个意志坚强的女孩，她觉得自己被困在拘谨的寄宿学校里，过着维多利亚时代那种沉闷的生活。但当她的父亲——一位著名的发明家——在一次例行的齐柏林飞艇飞行中失踪后，莉莉的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。现在由她的监护人，无情的铜绿夫人照顾，莉莉很确定她被监视了。神秘的银眼男潜伏在暗处，等待机会出击。但他们想从她身上得到什么呢?莉莉了解到，有传言说她的父亲发明了有史以来最有价值的发明——一台永动机。但如果他有这样一个神奇的发现，他肯定没有告诉莉莉。他只留下了一个小盒子没有钥匙，没有铰链。在一个钟表匠的儿子罗伯特和她的机械狐狸马尔金的帮助下，莉莉逃离了伦敦，寻找一个可能知道一些关于她父亲失踪以及他留下什么的人。