Engineer Winifred "Wink" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead.

Because of his dark werewolf past, Liam tries to keep his distance, but can't say no when Wink asks him to help find her friend's missing son. They soon discover that London's poorest are disappearing at an alarming rate, after encounters with mysterious "mechanical" men. Even more alarming is the connection the missing people may have with a conspiracy against the Queen.

Fighting against time—and their escalating feelings for each other—Wink and Liam must work together to find the missing people and save the monarchy before it's too late..

While I do hate to read a book series out of order, I did really enjoy the relationship between Wink and Liam and their ongoing banter. The story as a whole was entertaining and not too slow-paced.

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Moonlight & Mechanicals
(Gaslight Chronicles #4)
by Cindy Spencer Pape
3.79 · Rating details · 777 Ratings · 78 Reviews
London, 1859

Engineer Winifred "Wink" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead.

Because of his dark werewolf past, Liam tries to keep his distan ...more
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Review With an interesting mystery in the background and a great steampunky finish Pape delivers her best Gaslight Chronicles story yet.

The first book in Pape's series left me wishing for more of the 'special' orphan's that ? And ? Made a part of their family and I finally get my wish with a Wink who is all grown up but still crushing on the handsome werewolf policeman Liam. Liam is tempted by the inventive Wink but has some serious baggage from a past which has convinced him that he must be remain a lone wolf forever. But as Wink and Liam team up to uncover a secret society who may be planning an attack on the Queen and they are also trying to find out who is behind a rash of disappearances from the poorer side of town, Liam will find it harder and harder to resist his need to claim Wink as his mate.

I really liked Moonlight & Mechanicals. This is the fourth book in Pape's Gaslight/Steampunk romance series and where a couple of the earlier books were on the 'thin' side, this one takes advantage of all the cast built over the series and -since the leading characters have known each other for years – it does a good job with the romance. And I really liked the how the mystery of the mechanicals played out.

So, nice bit of steampunk elements and decent romance and touch of PNR since the hero's a werewolf. I am hoping that there will be more in this series. - I am pretty such that there was a bit of set up for the next starring pair and with inklings of a 'forbidden love'.

ARC for review via NetGalley release date 10/22/12