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Eleanora is working hard on her foster parent’s farm and training herself in the defensive arts to avoid the same fate as her parents. William is a swordsman for the library. The Librarian is stepping down and all is being thrown into turmoil. Eleanora and William must take separate journeys across the arid and primitive landscape of the Southwest region after the Collapse. Once their paths cross, they partner to survive by their wits and choose to fight or outthink potential enemies. The future of the region depends upon the decisions made by these two, separately and together. In this ...

When Sorcerer Adrien Danvers takes on a job that leads him into the slums of England, he never imagined he'd end up with not one but two apprentices. Despite his doubts about himself, he's the only chance the two pre-teens have to escape their hellish life. When Sir Hugh Quartermain contracts him to deal with the mysterious circumstances surrounding his home on the Isle of Man, Adrien finds the more time they spend together, the more his walls come down around the beguiling engineer—an unusual occurrence and a terrifying prospect.

Far removed from cobblestone and tavern tales, the cogs of an egregious machine have been set in motion. Seeking to make some immediate riches after one too many dungeon crawls, Michael and his allies venture to the sixth dimension. A realm forged by the brightest hand’s humanity can concoct, as well as the most devastating. A simple hunt for scrap metal becomes a fight for their lives as the war machines of old resurrect through steam and blood. Will history repeat or be trounced by the will of the future? While they battle, while they seek to stand superior before the machine, an ...

The past is the future. A young physicist, Sandy Say, is dispatched to a Scottish highland estate to secretly decipher a decrepit manuscript that may hold the key to reinventing the 21st century, devastated by a series of solar storms. There he finds whispers of a reincarnated wizard, a hidden laboratory that is said to be the gate to the Otherworld, and a girl. A Summer in Amber is set in Scotland and England in the not too distant future, after a series of extremely powerful solar storms has laid to waste the modern world of cell phones, computers satellites, and even the power grids. ...

1887. London, but not as you know it. The Industrial Revolution went further than anyone could have imagined, and the sprawling, chaotic metropolis of Even Greater London spreads across the entire southern half of England. The immense Tower casts electricity through the sky, powering the mind-boggling mechanisms of the city around it. The engineer-army of Isambard Kingdom Brunel swarms across the capital, building, demolishing, and rebuilding whatever they see fit. And at the heart of all this sits the country's first Private Investigation Agency.

In a sweeping panorama from the continent-spanning forests of Oz to the dystopian hell that is Pembroke, the Indigo tribe grows as they hire archaeologists to determine why their homeland of Oz is uninhabited. They uncover an ancient evil bent on destroying all other sentient life in the universe — one that exterminated cave men and other species on Oz. They also battle evil governments in other universes and establish themselves in a quaint but beautiful timeline.

In the future, the love of a young man’s life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! In Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood — with deadly consequences… A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland… The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. A cynical young ‘player’, adrift in the modern, amoral age meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever ...

Nash has got a pretty good thing going on. A hot girlfriend who always takes him back, money whenever he needs it, the respect—no matter how grudgingly given—of his peers, and a safe place to lay his head each night when he goes to sleep. For one of the animal people working the underground of the recently rebuilt Vegas, what more could he want?

Noblewoman knight Jeanne de Fleur and her elite team sail the skies in their airship fighting for justice in this steampunk adventure. When a sinister puppet master orchestrates the French Revolution, the knights must face a shape-shifting murderer, a sadistic Austrian princess, treasonous turncoats, the archangel Michael, and a doomsday weapon in the heart of Paris. One thing's for sure--you won't find this story in the history books.

In my first novel of the series, Forevermore, I took on the death of Edgar Allan Poe and made it into a murder mystery. Pat O’Malley comes home from the Civil War and gets free rent at the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx. All he really has is his Congressional Medal of Honor, his past employment as Poe’s manuscript messenger, and a vague belief that he can solve mysteries. O’Malley wants to prove that his former boss, whom he respected and revered for his literary prowess, did not die in the gutter of Baltimore in 1849 as a drunken reprobate. No! Poe was being driven to drink by ...

As Seen in USA Today Talked about on "Authors on the Air" Semi-Finalist Kindle Book Awards. Self-e Featured Selection for the Library Journal. For a Limited Time: Only $2.99 In this steampunk mystery, Jim Musgrave portrays late 19th century New York City with a horrifying yet comic vision of science gone awry. Detective Patrick O'Malley struggles with bizarre creatures and bawdy situations when he is pitted against steam-engineered pirates who aim to raid cargo ships and destroy lives. People breathe and release steam, fly out of windows and disappear, wield knives at lightning speed, and ...

Шедевр альтернативной истории, краеугольный камень субкультуры стимпанка ("парового панка"), единственный пример полновесного сотворчества двух жанровых революционеров, которым тесны рамки любого жанра. "Машина различий" — это широкомасштабная, полифоничная панорама мира, в котором одновременно с промышленной революцией произошла революция информационная, так что компьютер явился на век раньше положенного. Мира, в котором Чарльз Бэббидж построил свою разностную машину, а власть у аристократии перехватили лорды-радикалы во главе с Байроном.

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860: When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.

The Xortaag fleet outnumbers the humans’ five to one, and using their mind-control machine, they can use all the Earth’s military forces against their own kind. The Xortaag colony ships are only a few weeks away, and when they arrive, they'll wipe out the human race to have space and resources for their people. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, General Planetary Genocide Maada has just laid a trap for the Earth fleet and decimated a large chunk of their forces. To make things worse, an even more sinister threat (yeah, more sinister than the Xortaags) is emerging 1500 years in the future.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a husband. Similarly, young men of meager means, such as the Bennet brothers, must be desperate to find a wife. In an alternate universe where airships rule the sky, women govern the world. Men aren't allowed to join the military, carry firearms, or pilot airships. In fact, a young man's only goal is to attract a wealthy wife. For centuries, unmarried men have been labeled as “spinsirs” and treated like social pariahs. In a world where gentlemen are little more than property, ...

When Georgette Wickham's beloved airship is shot out of the sky, she vows to get revenge on a surprising enemy: Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Having lost most of her crew, Georgette sets her eye on an unusual recruit. She enlists Shar Lucas, the Bennets' groom. Even though he's a man, she sees his potential, and she's excited to give him a chance. But she's a little less excited about her unexpected stowaway... This novella is the sequel to Pride & Prejudice & Airships.

Jackline Perry has a secret. Most elves lost their magic long ago, but the blood of a witch still runs in her family, and she uses her special powers to rescue her husband-to-be. To get Prince Ludo out of jail, she turns him into a... cricket. Unfortunately, the prince is stuck in cricket form, and Jackline doesn't know how to undo it! To make herself feel better, she bosses around a former slave named Billy—who happens to be smitten with her. Little does he know, Jackline Perry is more than a handful. After the War is the third book in the Airships & Dragons series, and will also ...

Elven debutante Stelia Tercell is a wannabe wallflower, but her status draws attention. Her father is so famous, she's even caught the eye of the prince. Anyone else would be thrilled, but Stelia has no interest in balls, gowns, and royals. Stelia cares more about her father's plantation and the human slaves who work there. They deserve to be free, but no one agrees with her—until now. A handsome enemy soldier slips into her room, and like Stelia, he wants to free the slaves. Unfortunately, he might also want to kill her father. Airships & Dragons is a fusion of fantasy, historical ...

The elves of the East and the humans are the West are embroiled in war. The heart of the East is Prince Ludo, a celebrated hero and dragon rider. Mounted on Barbadu, his faithful dragon, he takes on the airships of the West. During one perilous battle, Ludo's side sustains heavy losses, and Barbadu is injured. The prince and his dragon (literally) crash into the life of Himiko, a young human who nurses them to health. Himiko is mute, and her past is painful. The only elves she's ever known were slavers, and Ludo frightens her. An Officer and a Dragon is the second book in the Airships & ...

Five Stars:"Excellent continuation... a Steampunk adventure that outdoes the previous book in the series."-Amazon Review Five Stars:"These books keep you wanting more and more!!"-Amazon Review DESCRIPTION: The Iron Horse is a massive steam-powered locomotive manned by a crew of warriors, miscreants, and genetic anomalies. Socrates, the train’s commander, is an autonomous steam-powered gorilla with memories and knowledge reaching back more than a thousand years. Their mission is to locate a new source of starfall, the rare element that powers the ancient city of Sanctuary. Their ...