Europe is preparing for war, and powerful men are searching for any advantage that might help them survive it. In rural France, an ancient device is rediscovered. It can reveal more than any machine should know, but only when joined to the right key and the woman born to understand it. She is the latest in a line stretching back beyond 86 BC - women marked by inheritance, pursued for what they carry, and condemned to lives shaped by secrecy, isolation and loss. As governments, astrologers and opportunists close in, the future becomes something to possess rather than something to create.
Keepers of the Bell begins the MEKANISMO sequence across generations, countries and centuries, where history is never quite settled, love is rarely safe, and the greatest danger may lie not in failing to know the future - but in knowing too much of it.
The journey continues in MEKANISMO Journal II, Argo Navis and MEKANISMO Journal III, Ophiucus Rising.