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Snowbound with the Swiss Tycoon
  1. 1. The Vault of Paradeplatz
  2. 2. The Ironclad Retainer
  3. 3. The Ascent to St. Moritz
  4. 4. Dinner Above the Snowline 🔒
  5. 5. The Forensic Breakdown 🔒
  6. 6. A Ride into the Whiteout 🔒
  7. 7. The Intruder in the Shadows 🔒
  8. 8. Flight to the City of Peace 🔒
  9. 9. The Secret Atelier in Vieille Ville 🔒
  10. 10. The Mechanical Masterpiece 🔒
  11. 11. The Lakefront Gala Infiltration 🔒
  12. 12. Seduction in the Presidential Suite 🔒
  13. 13. The Rooftop Ambush 🔒
  14. 14. Return to the High Redoubt 🔒
  15. 15. Secrets in the Snow 🔒
  16. 16. The Remnants Strike 🔒
  17. 17. The Siege of Chalet des Cimes 🔒
  18. 18. Blood on the Ice 🔒
  19. 19. The Rebirth of Bankhaus von Berg 🔒
  20. 20. The Proposal Above the Clouds 🔒
  21. 21. Vows in the Grossmünster 🔒
  22. 22. Consummation of the Sovereign 🔒
  23. 23. The Julian von Berg Institute 🔒
  24. 24. A Melody in the Mountains 🔒
  25. 25. The Heir of the Wolf 🔒
  26. 26. Sovereigns of the Alpine Crown 🔒

Chapter 10

The Mechanical Masterpiece

Snowbound with the Swiss Tycoon · Giselle Sterling & Alexander Vance · 8 min read

The subterranean atmosphere inside the vaulted stone atelier was steeped in the sacred silence of a cathedral as the velvet dust cloth fell away, revealing the Pierre Jaquet-Droz Celestial Automaton in all its breathtaking, eighteenth-century splendor. To any untrained observer, the clock was merely an exquisite decorative antique—a masterpiece of fire-gilded bronze, lapis lazuli, and rose gold created for the royal court of France or an enlightened Swiss prince. But…

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