Book two of the Mysterious Devices series of clockwork cozies set in the Magnificent Devices world! A chance meeting brings old friends ... and new enemies ... Daisy Linden and her sister Frederica arrive by airship in Santa Fe, capital of the Texican Territories, determined to search for their missing father. But two surprises await them-the authorities' baffling refusal to help, and a not-so-chance meeting with snake-oil...