Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Steampunk-flavored historical fantasy... but it had me at the clockwork octopus.

Steampunk-flavored historical fantasy... but it had me at the clockwork octopus. Thaniel Steepleton comes home to find an expensive pocket watch on his bed. Six months later it saves his life by causing him to move out of range of a Fennian attack on Scotland Yard. Thaniel and Scotland Yard want answers, and everything seems to hinge around Keita Mori, a lonely Japanese watchmaker who just might remember the future.