When Lady Ruth Constance Chapelstone needed a husband, building one seemed the most sensible approach.After all, there was no way that a real man wouldn't keep her from her inventions.The problem with clockwork men, however, is that no one else is interested in them as husbands.They want them as soldiers.Follow Lady Ruth through this trilogy of steampunk novellas as she fights to keep her schematics from those who would use them to do harm.Adventure, airships, and androids abound in this collection of steampunk adventures.This collection includes all three novellas in the Lady Ruth Constance Chapelstone Chronicles:The Clockwork SuitorThe Parisian ThiefThe American Escapade Views: 7
Addilyn Mitchell is going home for Christmas. Surrounded by excited children, supportive family, and the magic of the holiday season.Not even close.Listening to her mother ridicule her for the decision to be a successful single woman living on her own, Addilyn can’t take it anymore. A simple white lie snowballs into a complicated holiday situation. She says she has a boyfriend.Not even close.Nate Wheeler is available at the touch of a button. Literally. If you need a date, he’s your man. Just pick up the phone.When he gets a desperate phone call from Addilyn, he agrees to her two week timeline. Something he never does, but there was something in her voice that made it impossible to ignore.It’s just another job. Nothing will happen. It will be played out perfectly like it has every time before.Not even close.When they get together lines start to blur, rules begin to break, and hearts begin to beat. It’s the perfect holiday ending right?Not even close. Views: 7
Western writer Jim R. Woolard's classic award-winning debut still rides hard and fires point blank from all barrels . . . Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeking fresh scalps. When he spied Zelda Shaw struggling for her life with a Shawnee brave, he could stay hidden no longer. But saving her life meant two people had to be protected from the cold, starvation and those who would kill them both. And Matthan was taking Zelda home, dowMatthan Hannar that to survive the harsh, untamed wilderness of the Ohio Valley in 1790, it's best to avoid all contact with settlers (likely to hang you) and Indians (even more likely to slaughter you). Success on those fronts means he might not starve, drown, or freeze to death. But while he's winding his way upriver as stealthily as he can, he stumbles across Zelda Shaw furiously fighting off a ferocious Shawnee brave. Breaking his own... Views: 7
When Renata Radleigh stumbles over a corpse in London, she fears the death has something to do with her brother Don's boss, a secretive billionaire speculator. Don is acting as his front-man in St. Louis, Missouri, buying up and renovating a borderline slum. Renata's beau Peter digs around and finds that Don's deals are suspect. Is he a dupe, endangering the lives of everyone around him? Views: 7
There are secrets in every marriage . . . and some are more dangerous than others.Sarah and Marco Moretti are the perfect couple. Together they have travelled the globe building high-profile careers as archeologists. Now, at a dig in Florence, they are on the brink of the discovery of a lifetime.However their marriage is not what it seems.On the very evening that Sarah uncovers the San Gennaro necklace - a long-lost antiquity that will bring them worldwide fame - she witnesses Marco kissing another woman. Blinded by tears, she drives home alone in the dead of night . . . When Sarah wakes up in hospital, she has no memory of the car accident that brought her there - or the 48 hours preceding it. Gone is the knowledge of her husband's infidelity. But gone too is all recollection of finding the precious necklace.And the loss of those two crucial memories will have devastating repercussions."Memory can be the difference between... Views: 7
