A young, kind-hearted boy faces a moral dilemma when an enigmatic diary finds its way into his hands at the bookshop where he works. The diary, with its cryptic writing and mysterious origin, tempts him to go behind his employer's back to claim it for himself. What secrets lie within its pages? And who is the Miracle Maker behind these unfathomable wonders?

The Time of Miracles is a collection of short stories set in an alternate steampunk London in the year 1873. The city is a dangerous place, filled with corrupt politicians, monolithic companies with private armies bent on world domination, roving gangs of crooks, and bobbies indistinguishable from the criminals they are supposed to apprehend. Amidst this chaos, everyone else is just trying to survive in the lawless world of The Time of Miracles.