The Clockwork Crow

Seren is headed to a new home at a mansion in the country. On the way, she is given a package to hold for a nervous stranger, but the stranger never returns, and she has to keep the package. When she arrives at the mansion, she is bewildered to find the family is gone and there are only servants there. Seren decides to open the package and inside is a grumpy mechanical and magical crow.

But where is the family, especially the little boy in the family? There are rumors he has been taken off by the fairies. Can she return the mechanical crow to the nervous stranger? What is the story behind the crow?

A short chapter book, the first of a series, with magic, suspense, and mystery.