I’m looking for a dark young adult novel, about middle school reading level, published from 2000-2009. All black with fancy white/silver steampunk-style text on the cover. It was about various figures in a small town on top of a hill, specifically a traveler that comes to the small town to show off some sort of technology/machiene. The townspeople live extremely rural lives in some sort of vague time period before machines were commonplace, but the setting is very disconnected from our world.

At some point in the story, a cat is implied to be eaten? I believe some sort of book is integral to the story… the cover of the novel is made to look like the book.

There is some sort of fortune-telling? I think the book vaguely predicts the future of people in the town. Sorry this is incredibly vague, I’m having trouble remembering almost anything about this book.