In Clockwork Angels, Kevin J. Anderson and Rush drummer Neil Peart created a steampunk world to accompany the Rush album of the same name. Now they return to the world they created. Marinda Peake leads a quiet life; she gave up on her ambitions to take care of her ailing alchemist father. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious blank book that she must fill with other people's stories - and her own. Clockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales, and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere 'sentence or two' to a true epic.