Agent Tessa Lancing believed she knew all about death – until she met Death itself.Tessa has one last chance to prove herself to her employer, a disavowed secretive agency, or face literal termination, and she's desperate to do what she must to succeed. When assigned to a doomed mission already littered with dead bodies, she drags Jack de Sombras, an accused traitor who's also her old partner and unrequited love, out of his self-ma...

Injustice for the living. A reckoning for the dead. A bitter payment is overdue.In the storm-battered New Mexico town of Benedición, three strangers discover that survival is not a matter of innocence - but of endurance.An unnatural storm has swallowed the settlement whole. Floodwaters are rising. Escape routes are gone. And the law - what's left of it - has revealed its ugliest face.Eli Mercer is only passing through. He's a man with a vio...

A Place of Fog and Murder -- Second EditionA Gumshoe in High Heels -- Lady detective Lou Tanner needs to cement her reputation to survive in a man's job, but the gorgeous client offering her a new case has brought her more than his tales of woe. Ruthless gangsters, suspicious cops, and a desperate blackmailer all manage to gum up the works at every turn. Gun in hand and wits at the ready, Lou is in a fight for her life.

Lady Shamus – Gumshoe in High Heels!Dead broke. Hunted by the police.San Francisco's Most Unwanted. She could lose it all.For Lady detective Lou Tanner, one case could fix everything.In a world on the brink of war, will her sharp tongue and cunning wits save her from a web of murder and political intrigue?Hard-boiled Pulp Fiction meets Dieselpunk in this twisted Tale of a Retro-Futuristic 1935 San Francisco.From the chaos of ...

Beneath the quiet deserts, bustling cities, and lonely stretches of highway, something ancient stirs—an evil that blends supernatural horror with human corruption.It's the kind of danger that doesn't show up in police reports.The kind you call the Praetorius Agency to stop.Jack de Sombras is a rugged ex-intelligence operative—equal parts cowboy investigator and reluctant hero. His past is a locked v...

Demons! Vampires! Time Travelers! A Giant Chicken?The creators of Twelve Hours Later and Thirty Days Later are back for another time-turning read with adventure in the offing, steam in the air, and tongue occasionally in cheek. Join us for fantastical stories from fifteen authors, including Harry Turtledove, Kirsten Weiss, Katherine Morse and David Drake, Anthony Francis, and Madeleine Holly-Rosing as we journey through time and genre.Take a tour of Jolly ...

Twelve Hours Later is a must-read for fans of steampunk.--Paige Lovitt for Reader ViewsMyth! Intrigue! Dirigibles! Literacy!Support public libraries and explore a world of steampunk fiction! Twelve Hours Later is the brainchild of the Treehouse Writers, fifteen talented authors, artists, and poets, who came together at the Clockwork Alchemy Steampunk Convention to create this must-read steampunk anth...

Hang on to the edge of your seat with this exciting anthology of Steampunk flash fiction, featuring pairs of stories thirty days apart. Filled with rayguns and corsets, ghosts and gamblers, dragons and airships, Thirty Days Later features stories of intrigue and deceit, of comeuppance and conspiracy, of myths and monsters, of defectors and dilettantes, of time travel and time relentlessly passing. Join us in a nail-biting exploration of the churning worlds of gears, steam, action,...

The spooks arrived before Jack and Tessa opened the doors of their new paranormal security agency.Ghosts, Serial Killers, and a Mesopotamian Curse.Never mind unresolved emotions between the two partners.Adding to the list both international antiquities smugglers and terrorists does nothing to endear them with the FBI or a secret gang of paramilitary soldiers.Jack de Sombras is wondering if he was better off dead.Tessa Lancing is becoming Death.

The Wild American West was a dream and hope for many, but for some it was a place to die. Lucky Tom Turner has finally run out of the good fortune that kept him alive for so long. Rescue the brilliant scientist, elude the New Confederacy, and escape the Prussians determined to torture him for secrets only he has – that's all his country asked of him. Ghost trains, evil agents, flooded mines, and a gunfight in the streets of Tombstone all await the no-so-lucky Turner. Before "they" can get ...

Volcanology is an unseemly occupation for a lady in 1882, but this will not prevent Dr. Letticia "Lettie" Gantry from pursuing her scientific obsession to America, Japan, or all the way to the Dutch East Indies if necessary. Not even the unwanted attentions of extraordinary "mad inventors" such as the legendary Captain Nemo and Robur the Conqueror will stop her. But too many men want to control her and, more importantly, her prediction equation: an exotic foreign agent, a man bent on destr...

There's something nasty lurking in the thick fog of San Francisco, roaring in the dark, waiting to be unleashed. Leave it to lucky Tom Turner to have to find out, but first he must evade being shanghaied in the Barbary Coast, destroyed by the murderous ambitions of former Confederate "gentlemen," or punished as a consequence of his own past. Mechanical monstrosities show up on every gaslit street corner and in every suspicious warehouse, threatening the very fabric of his country. Civil Wa...