The Biltmore Estate is magnificent and more. A chance exploration brings a discovery of a machine decades old which has throwbacks to a long ago machine made by Leonardo da Vinci. What the machine is, how it works and getting it to work is the job of Daniel.
Not only are the odds against him by his colleagues on campus, who want to get rid of him from his professorship, but at Biltmore he faces antagonism from one quarter, who is against him and wants his own engineers to solve the mystery.
Working in two time frames is always interesting and we go back to Antonio who is a young inventor whom the Vanderbilts believed in, and the one who successfully built the machine, to the romance which started on the estate and then coming to the parallel story of Daniel and Penny who followed the identical way of romance.
The romance was just part of the story, the main part was the invention and in present times the remake and installation of the machine. The Vanderbilt family forms part of the background of the story.
Beautifully descriptive of every location the story was set in, the characters themselves were very interesting and varied.
Sent by Turner Publishing Company for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
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