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August 3, 2020
Unhallowed Love Series by Tara Fox Hall – Excerpt & Giveaway
A Good Year
Unhallowed Love Book 1
by Tara Fox Hall
Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Faced with losing Pandora Productions as well as her best friend Rebecca to the smarmy Paul, savvy film executive Debbie makes a pact with the demon Shaker, agreeing to bind herself to him as his human master in return for killing Paul and securing Pandora’s future. Yet even as Pandora gains accolades and renown, Debbie’s strong resolve begins to crumble under the weight of her actions. And the pleasure she finds in Shaker’s arms is becoming more than sex. Is Debbie doomed to lose her heart as well as her soul to a demon who has only been waiting for the chance to claim both?
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Year of the Demon
Unhallowed Love Book 2
CEO Debbie and demon Shaker’s first year of partnership was a smashing success for both Pandora Productions and their own new intimate relationship, ending with the announcement of their engagement last New Year’s Eve. Shaker now inhabits a human host, Pandora’s rising action star Jett Black, putting the possibility of a family within Debbie’s tentative grasp as the couple pledges their love at the altar. But as before, one crisis after another ensues, beginning with Titan’s push to assimilate Pandora and the death of Debbie’s father, bringing her back together with her estranged family, and into the sights of a demon-hunting priest, Father Matthew, who will stop at nothing to not only send Shaker back to the Hell he came from, but also ensure Debbie is free of sin…permanently. When Shaker is sent back to Hell, Debbie is left bereft, her team of allies decimated, her best friend in a coma, she must decide if she will succumb…or rise from the ashes and fight ruthlessly for everything she loves, no matter the cost.
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Year of the Incubus
Unhallowed Love Book 3
With the Year of the Demon over, widow Deborah “Debbie” Black is more resolved than ever to put aside her losses: main actor (and human vessel) Jett Black to a murderer’s bomb, and her demon husband Shaker to a new Mistress.
Independent studio Pandora Productions has a new trio of paranormal movies to create, and a reputation for mayhem and bloodshed to live down. The year has a stellar beginning: Sheila awakens from her coma, dark witch Leri joins the Pandora team, Jett’s younger brother Brady arrives to finish the movie Jett was working on when he was killed, incubus Vassago Gray’s burgeoning series Incubus has a chance to be picked up by Netflix, and faerie sorceress Myrrh and her army of crowmen stand watch over all.
Yet new exceptional scripts are still appearing authored with false names. The perfect setting for haunted isle picture Origin of Fear is available nearby for next to nothing. Vassago may be entering Debbie’s dreams, bent on incubus seduction. When Brady is exposed as an addict fleeing from justice, his days outside a prison cell numbered, Shaker returns in force to possess Brady, tipping the odds in Debbie’s favor.
Will the duo’s ruthless resolve be enough to combat the evil demonic shadow preparing to engulf them?
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I’m an OSHA-certified safety and health inspector at a metal fabrication shop in upstate New York. I have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a double minor in chemistry and biology from Binghamton University. My writing credits include nonfiction, horror, suspense, erotica, and contemporary and historical paranormal romance. I am the author of the demon romantic suspense Unhallowed Love series, the paranormal action-adventure fantasy Lash series and the vampire romantic suspense Promise Me series. I also coauthored (with Eric Dietrich) the nonfiction book Forbidden Conversations. I divide my free time unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing firewood, caring for stray animals, and sewing catbeds, catnip mats, & cat toys for donation to animal shelters.
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July 31, 2020
New Release! Sacrifices by Kim Knight
Sacrifices
by Kim Knight
Genre: Historical Romantic Suspense
Sacrifices is a riveting romantic story with historical and suspenseful elements set in the 1960s Jazz scene and the present day.
Jane O’Sullivan, a sultry twenty-seven-year-old singer, starts a torrid, forbidden affair during the 1960s jazz scene in London. Working hard, she makes a name for herself. She’s a woman with dreams, hopes, and a burning desire to leave Europe behind and travel to New Orleans with her lover, Louis.
Louis Simpson, a charming twenty-nine-year-old musician from Jackson, Mississippi, is on tour with his band in London. Back home, the height of the civil rights movement plays out in the USA. Driven by ambition, a forbidden love, and a desire to turn his life around, he pushes forward, living his dream.
Once their paths cross, a twist of fate crushes Jane’s world, forcing her to make a life-changing decision that impacts both her and Louis. This historical love story spans across the Atlantic and roams through Europe with love, loss, and broken promises.
Twenty-five years later, when Jane and Louis’ paths cross on a Greek island, will the helping hand of fate bring them together, or rip them apart, once more?
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Kim was born in 1983 and from London in the UK. She’s a mother to a beautiful little boy, and a proud award-winning author (awarded Best Romance 2017 for A Stranger in France), and #1 Best-Selling Author (365 Days of Writing Prompts for Romance Writers). She’s also a contribution writer at Aspiring Authors Magazine LLC. Kim started her journey as a traditionally published author and later dived into self-publishing also.
As a reader she’s head over heels in love with romance, historical fiction, crime fiction, African- American, suspense and thriller genre books. As a writer, Kim enjoys creating stories with a diverse and multi-cultural line up, within the romance, romantic suspense and general thriller and crime genres. When she’s not reading, or writing stories of her own her other passions include practising her French, astrology, fashion, make-up artistry, drawing, spending time at her sewing machine dressmaking, watching make -up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, letter writing and being a mum.
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July 4, 2020
Sizzling Summer Giveaway!
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June 30, 2020
Discreetly Yours and Other Books by Stephen Murray
I’m pleased to welcome crime fiction/mystery author and Las Vegas local Stephen Murray to the blog today. Stephen is a fellow author with Coffee House Tours, with an interesting array of titles under his belt. Be sure to check his books out!
Discreetly Yours. (Crime Fiction/Mystery)
Frankie, the owner of an exclusive escort agency in Las Vegas, treats the ladies with contempt. When his ‘A-Team Babes’, Satin, Ruby and Goldie, have had enough, they conspire to commit the perfect crime to murder Frankie. But is it the perfect crime? Do the ladies overlook something? Do they get away with their scheme? Do you want them to get away with the murder? The suspense with its many twists and turns before their fate is finally revealed will keep you guessing until the end.
The Chapel of Eternal Love – Wedding Stories from Las Vegas. (Mainstream Fiction)
Spend a day with wedding organizer Rosemary and her dog, Buster, as they welcome couples to the chapel to tie the knot. What are their reasons for coming to Las Vegas and who have made us the marriage capital of the world? This is a novel full of love and fun.
Return to the Chapel of Eternal Love – Marriage Stories from Las Vegas. (Mainstream Fiction)
The sequel to the award-winning Chapel of Eternal Love. Re-visit the charming chapel and discover what has happened to the fictional couples who were wed that fateful day five years earlier. Where have their lives journeys taken them in the intervening years? What is the reason that compels the all to Return to the Chapel of Eternal Love?
Murder Aboard the Queen Elizabeth II. (Cozy Mystery)
Join wealthy socialites Brian and Sylvia Sinclair as they celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with their business associates and dysfunctional family aboard the opulent QEII. As the ship sails from England to New York, one of the party is murdered. The mystery must be solved before the passengers scatter when the ship docks in New York? Fun ‘whodunnit’ – and why?
Stephen Murray is a Las Vegas author of fiction with roots in England and Southern Africa. He writes in multiple genres. His first published works were mainstream – the award winning Chapel of Eternal Love: Wedding Stories from Las Vegas, and the critically acclaimed sequel, Return to the Chapel of Eternal Love: Marriage Stories from Las Vegas. These were followed by the cozy murder mystery, Murder Aboard the Queen Elizabeth II. His latest novel is a crime fiction set in Las Vegas titled Discreetly Yours. In addition to being a published author, Stephen Murray is a partner in a software development and support company, which he originally founded in California in 1982. He has made Las Vegas his home since 2003.
For more information, please visit www.authorstephenmurray.com.
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March 30, 2020
Type Dirty to Me Under Contract!
Hi there Romance Readers,
I know the last several months have been crazy and surreal, to say the least. But I have one bit of excellent news I wanted to share with you. My latest steamy book, Type Dirty to Me, is now signed with Totally Bound Publishing! The book is slated to release on October 6, 2020, so stay tuned to my social media and website for more details! Here’s a blurb about the book. I can’t wait for you all to meet Madelyn and Brem! Stay safe and healthy, everyone!
Love,
Roxanne
Divorcee Madelyn Stacilli has baggage deeper than the Grand Canyon, and her move to New Haven to start a new life is the perfect change she needs. She works to carve out a new life and open a bookshop, but the vicious town gossip has other plans. Madelyn finds comfort in online conversations with the mysterious Easton216. Beneath the blanket of anonymity, she can let her hair down and be herself. Their easy, open relationship is a breath of fresh air.
When A-List British actor Bremond Lockwood rents the house beside her to escape an intense media spotlight and jaded past, Madelyn becomes torn between the man online who gives her the steady emotional connection she craves, and Brem’s fiery passion, which ignites her embers of sexuality from a long slumber, making her burn hotter than the sun. The road to recovery just got a whole lot more complicated.
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March 22, 2020
Anna Lores’ Evangeline’s Power Trio – Spotlight
Title: Evangeline’s Power Trio
Author: Anna Lores
Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance
Beware: This work contains sensual scenes that will bring a blush to your cheeks and a moan from your lips.
One. Two. Three men. Yes. Yes. Yes…
At the top of her game as a prestigious attorney, Evangeline Zanipolo walked away from it all. Despite an obvious lack of skill, she tries her hand as a massage therapist. But professional success is not her goal. All she wants is love, marriage, and babies with the two men she’s engaged to marry. Then both men dump her, and she’s left questioning her life’s decisions. Just when she’s ready to throw in the towel and try a traditional relationship, three forever-bachelors walk into her life prepared to give her everything she’s ever dreamed of…if they can iron out all the kinks.
Sexy businessman Brice Loffiten has always kept his lovers at arm’s length, but Evangeline has snuck past his barriers and secured her spot inside his heart. He wants her all to himself, but her insatiable desires have him doubting he’ll be enough.
Power attorney, Dylan Russo is back in town and ready to assert control—in the bedroom. But Evangeline might not be ready to surrender to his type of dominance.
Champion Jerry Wynn needs to be number one in a relationship. With him at the helm, the four could conquer anything. But can the other men in Evangeline’s life accept him as the head of the household?
An avid romance reader, Anna Lores started writing steamy romance novels as a by-product of insomnia. One night, with a nudge from her husband to write a book, Anna borrowed her son’s laptop and set about breathing life to her very own characters. After a month, she was surprised with a new laptop of her own to pursue her dreams of writing sensual happily ever afters.
The desire to fill her world with wonderful stories she and her close friends could not just talk about but gush over, keeps Anna’s fingers racing to keep up with her imagination. As the rest of the house is sleeping peacefully, Anna sheds her title as Supermom of Three to write sexy love stories.
Sleeping might still be a battle Anna hasn’t conquered, but armed with a B. A. in English Literature and all the hot men in her mind calling for their own story, she stays busy during those midnight hours writing her next international bestselling spicy romance.
Author site: www.annaloresauthor.com
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Publisher page: www.thewildrosepress.com
He gazed into her empty house. No furniture. No lamps. He leaned forward and peered further inside. “I’m jumping to conclusions, but—”
“Yes. I wasn’t exaggerating last night. They literally took everything. A friend dropped off my laptop and office files this morning. Henry and Todd can have the rest. I’m not suing or wasting any more time on them.”
She swallowed as she lowered her gaze. “I didn’t see it coming. But I understand why it happened.” Shaking her head, she seemed lost in her thoughts. “I’m not going to make the same mistakes again. I’m only dating a man who will support me, attend family functions, and love my friends. If they have a problem with my career choices, they’re gone. If…” She rattled off an exhaustive list of “ifs,” and he paid attention to every detail.
“…and if he doesn’t like my excessively poochie belly, he’s out the door.”
He gazed at her torso. You don’t have a pooch. Who has destroyed your image of yourself? “You’ve got curves where women should have curves. You’re beautiful, Evangeline.” I want to see and touch every gorgeous inch of you. I want to get my mouth on your—
“You’re just saying that.” She rolled her eyes at him and seemed defeated.
He cupped her face and bent over until they were nose-to-nose. “I have the luxury of being able to tell the truth. I look at you and my thoughts aren’t innocent.”
Copyright © Anna Lores
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Author Anna Lores Releases Latest Steamy Romance
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. – Evangeline’s Power Trio, by romance author Anna Lores, will be available in e-book and paperback on March 16, 2020. Evangeline’s Power Trio, from The Wild Rose Press, Inc., is the second novel in a steamy romance, stand-alone series.
“I’m excited to share Evangeline’s Power Trio with readers and bring them another great rollercoaster ride of a story,” said Ms. Lores. “Seeing this story come to life has been a thrill, and I hope everyone will fall in love with the characters and story as deeply as I have.”
The reverse harem story tells a story of four people who have been damaged by their past, but are at a point in their lives where they are ready to open their hearts to the right person…or persons. With careers, families, and secrets standing in their way, will love be the ultimate prize that binds them to each other for life? Or will an unexpected tragedy ruin any chance love offers?
At the top of her game as a prestigious attorney, Evangeline Zanipolo walked away from it all. Despite an obvious lack of skill, she tries her hand as a massage therapist. But professional success is not her goal. All she wants is love, marriage, and babies with the two men she’s engaged to marry. Then both men dump her, and she’s left questioning her life’s decisions. Just when she’s ready to throw in the towel and try a traditional relationship, three forever-bachelors walk into her life prepared to give her everything she’s ever dreamed of…if they can iron out all the kinks.
Sexy businessman Brice Loffiten has always kept his lovers at arm’s length, but Evangeline has snuck past his barriers and secured her spot inside his heart. He wants her all to himself, but her insatiable desires have him doubting he’ll be enough.
Power attorney, Dylan Russo is back in town and ready to assert control—in the bedroom. But Evangeline might not be ready to surrender to his type of dominance.
Champion Jerry Wynn needs to be number one in a relationship. With him at the helm, the four could conquer anything. But can the other men in Evangeline’s life accept him as the head of the household?
Anna Lores is an author of steamy contemporary and paranormal romances, including International Bestselling Ella’s Triple Pleasure (The Wild Rose Press), The Streaming Lovers Series (Blooming Cactus Publishing, LLC), The Horse List Trilogy (Red Sage Publishing), along with International Bestselling One Night of Love: Live for Me, and Cursed To Love: You Belong to Me (Blooming Cactus Publishing, LLC).
She resides in College Station, Tex. with her husband, three children and three rambunctious dogs. You can connect with her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/authorannalores , follow her on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/annaloresauthor and visit her website at www.annaloresauthor.com
Title: Evangeline’s Power Trio
Release date: March 16, 2020
Print ISBN: 978-1-5092-3063-1
Digital ISBN: 978-1-5092-3064-8
Price: E-Book $5.99
Available: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Kobo
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Warm Up with this Spring with Alpha Revealed by Brenda Sparks
Vlad is a man of many secrets. Natasha has a little secret of her own.
But secrets have a way of coming out…and sometimes that is for the best.
Natasha Peterhoff is the luckiest vampire in the world. Having pined over the sexy, but aloof Vladimir Starikovich for centuries, her feelings are reciprocated when the pair are drawn to each other the night of her brother’s wedding. Unfortunately, the stark light of day dawns, and the couple parts ways.
Back in Siberia, Vlad is overcome by doubts. Not only will Natasha’s brother kill him, but his own past is reason enough to keep her away. He vows to do everything in his power to keep her safe, even it if means never seeing her again.
With so many reasons to stay apart, will the ties that bind be strong enough to pull them together?
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She lifted one arm in his direction. He raised a hand to still her movement. “Don’t…touch me.”
Well, damned if that didn’t smart. He didn’t want her to touch him, even to offer him a little comfort. My, how things changed. He certainly hadn’t minded her touch the night of her brother’s wedding.
Fine. If he doesn’t want me touching him, so be it.
Natasha turned around, sending her harlequin colored pigtails twirling about her face and retrieved the bag of blood from the floor. Without looking in his direction, she stalked through the room and sat in the only padded chair. She punctured the bag with her fangs and drank, glaring at him over the top of the bag.
The blood seeped into her cells, nourishing both her and the baby. The baby moved as she continued to down the bag quickly. Her hunger pangs eased a little with each gulp of the life-sustaining liquid.
Vlad slowly straightened to his full height. The expression on his face, a cross between disdain and pain, softened her eyes. With an awkward gait, he gingerly moved in her direction.
“We need to talk,” he barked, his voice still rough with pain.
She just bet they did. No doubt, Vlad would tell her to leave. It was there on his face. He obviously didn’t want her in his home, and she didn’t blame him.
She had run out after they made love, avoided him for months, and now she had injured his manhood. If the tables were reversed, she probably wouldn’t want him around either.
Born in Virginia, Brenda Sparks now resides in the Sunshine State. Balancing her professional commitment to the local school district with her writing is challenging at times, but writing suspenseful paranormal romance is a passion that won’t be denied. Her idea of a perfect day is one spent in front of a computer with a hot cup of coffee, her fingers flying over the keys to send her characters off on their latest adventure. Brenda loves to connect with readers. Please visit her online or stop by her website to say hi.
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March 8, 2020
Never a Bride by Caridad Pineiro – Spotlight & Giveaway!
Never a Bride
At the Shore Book 3
by Caridad Pinero
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Emma never dreamed that the happily-ever-after would change her life. . .
But as her two best friends find love, Emma worries about what her future will bring. She has seen all too often what happens once husbands and children arrive. She puts on a brave face because she wants her buddies to be happy, but as a wedding planner, she has seen one too many marriages go south. Not to mention her parents’ bitter divorce which has soured her on the idea of marriage for herself. She can’t imagine ever finding a man who can bring her a forever kind of romance.
He’s been in love with her forever and can’t understand why she can’t see it. . .
Carlo da Costa knows why Emma avoids relationships and yet he can’t help but wonder how someone who puts such love and care into others’ dreams can’t allow herself to believe in the fairy tale. He sees the yearning on her face when she spends time with him and his big boisterous family and knows that deep inside, she wants the same thing. Carlo hopes that one day he can provide her with that because he’s sure Emma holds the key to his heart in her hands.
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February 6, 2020
Landra Graf’s A Talent for Trouble + Giveaway!
Drug runner Emilio Morales is one deal away from being the sole runner from Earth to the upper planets—until his partner attempts a double-cross. Now, Emilio’s stuck in a disabled spaceship with an unpredictable, attractive female who’s willing to help him out if he’ll assist her in retrieving her ship from an impound facility.
Antonia ‘Toni’ Smith is sick and tired of being beholden to men. The only way to guarantee freedom is to get back her bootlegging ship to run her own business again. When Emilio kills her ticket out, she’s forced to rely on him for assistance. Emilio, the most wanted and annoying man in the solar system, is a sexy-as-hell means to an end.
But every plan the duo makes falls apart and every day they spend in each other’s company increases the tension between them.
With the death toll rising and their defenses low, can Emilio and Toni get the happy ending they want, without falling for each other in the process?
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He poured himself a glass. Turning it slowly, spreading the liquid up the sides and back down, he noticed he wasn’t alone. “Can I offer you a drink?”
“No,” a sultry feminine voice responded. “There’s nothing over there isn’t made in the still or fermented in a barrel.”
“Suit yourself.” Emilio turned and took in the view. Mother Mary.
The woman, a vision of sin, stood angled toward the fancy window display where three floor-to-ceiling panels showcased the twinkling view. She wore a glimmering red dress, which sparkled even more as she turned toward him. Her hair was a pale-white blonde, short and framing her face, giving it a distinct diamond shape. She’d be labeled gorgeous, more than the word could construe, with her eyes the color of whiskey—and not the cheap stuff in his glass. No, the full-bodied swirling amber and caramel colors.
“What brings you to Casa Manolo?” He swallowed a little more whiskey than he intended and did his best to sound suave, but the words came out more like a croak.
“Nothing that concerns you.” The dismissal paired with a smile, a little thing revealing flawless teeth. He glanced down at her one note of defiance—boots. Grav boots to be exact, black and fierce. A deep, soul-encapsulating need clamped onto his brain, a need he’d waited years to experience. This was the woman he’d been waiting for. The type he’d always wanted. The one he’d call his.
He walked closer, eager to see if she took a similar interest in him. “Oh? Well, I’m happy to make this visit less business and more pleasure. Your name is?”
The words escaped his mouth as he glanced at her lips—expressive, full and waiting for his kiss, even when those same lips uttered, “Too expensive for you.”
Emilio watched her like a hawk. “How the hell do you know how to do that?”
“I captain a ship. Most people don’t just get to run a vessel because they win it gambling.”
“So, you’ve heard of me?” He winked at her.
She groaned. “Yes, by reputation alone.”
“All good things?”
“If you call being a ladies’ man who attracts desperate, scar-loving station-clingers a good thing.” She left out the rumors of his bedroom prowess. Because she’d turned over a new leaf. No sex, no men and definitely no crazy stuff.
“I can tell from your expression you’ve heard other things.”
How easily he’d read her since the moment they’d faced off on Casa Manolo bugged her as well. She focused on the piloting. “Maybe that you won a fancy ship in a poker game.”
“Better to win one than lose one,” he replied.
The words stung, the sharp pain taking up residence somewhere in the center of her chest. Why am I attracted to him again? “You know what they say on Mars…can’t win big if you don’t risk big.”
“Mars girl, eh?”
Toni gave a single nod.
“Makes sense why you’re crazy.”
She wanted to take offense at his shocked tone, dismissive like so many of the men she’d met over the years. The way the upper planets still regarded woman as objects more often than as productive members of society drove her nuts. “Don’t let this dress fool you.”
“It’s doing everything but fooling me,” he retorted with a smirk.
Landra Graf consumes at least one book a day, and has always been a sucker for stories where true love conquers all. She believes in the power of the written word, and the joy such words can bring. In between spending time with her family and having book adventures, she writes romance with the goal of giving everyone, fictional or not, their own happily ever after.
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February 4, 2020
Katherine McIntyre’s Of Tinkers + Giveaway
When technomancer Theo Whitfield joins forces with the insufferable, gorgeous Silas Kylock to find her missing sister, their heated exchanges turn from irritation to desire…
When technomancer Theo Whitfield’s sister goes missing, she’s forced to work alongside an arrogant prat she’s long despised, the tinker Silas Kylock. Her sister Ellie nicked his clockwork doll, and Theo needs his help to track the stolen merchandise and, by proxy, Ellie. However, the more time they spend together, the more she sees Silas as the man she’d run through the streets of Islington with and not the insufferable gentleman he’s become.
Theo’s not the only one afflicted. Silas never forgot the loyal, stubborn woman whose temper he can’t help but spark, and as their search grows more dire, her dedication to her family inspires him to make sacrifices of his own. So, when the hunt erupts into a deadly confrontation with the gangs of Islington, Theo and Silas aren’t just risking their hearts—their lives are on the line.
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Strong women. Strong words.
Katherine McIntyre is a feisty chick with a big attitude despite her short stature. She writes stories featuring snarky women, ragtag crews, and men with bad attitudes—high chance for a passionate speech thrown into the mix. As an eternal geek and tomboy who’s always stepped to her own beat, she’s made it her mission to write stories that represent the broad spectrum of people out there, from different cultures and races to all varieties of men and women. Easily distracted by cats and sugar.
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Theo Whitfield had been dreading this visit before she entered the building. Any one of an assortment of grisly jobs sounded more appealing than the task she faced now, whether it be sucking down clouds of noxious black steam while repairing an airship vent, or tromping through the sewage and muck in the Underground. Blazes, she’d even rather devour her mother’s charred attempts at supper, a feat that caused even the most ironclad stomachs to falter.
Yet, her sister Ellie had never come home last night, and Theo needed answers.
Theo swallowed hard as she stepped to the storefront and rested her knuckles on the freshly painted door. The polished bronze sign of Kylock Industries glared down at her from the overhang, and she gritted her teeth while gathering her courage. Autocarts rattled behind her while they raced along the cobblestones, part of the average hustle of Barnsbury. Each one that passed elicited a stream of curses from the street thugs who were half-rats by noon and reeked of gin.
She gripped the knob and turned it, entering the business.
The dim gas lamps in the entryway flickered their sallow light onto the tarnished floorboards. A woman sitting behind a mahogany desk stationed in the front of a sprawling parlor startled in her seat as if she’d been caught napping. Even with the posh and polished entrance of the shop, the scents of iron, steel and copper tickled her nose and made her fingers itch. For a technomancer like herself, the contraptions devised in this place were rife for exploration.
“How may I help you?” the attendant asked, smoothing her skirts before she stood from her seat.
“I’m here to see Silas,” Theo said, slipping her hands into the pockets of her trousers.
She didn’t miss the way the woman stared her down, lingering on her shocking attire. With her long black curls left free and wild rather than pinned back, and the lack of a corset to give her an unrealistic waist, Theo would never be mistaken for a lady. Though the populace’s judgment didn’t matter. As a technomancer in a city of industry, she would always, always find employment, whether she followed social norms or not.
“Mr. Kylock is occupied. Did you want to make an appointment?” the woman replied as she forced a smile.
Theo lifted an eyebrow. The high-and-mighty bastard’s too busy playing with his toys to spare a second? As if I’m surprised.
“He’ll see me now,” she demanded, her fingers itching all the more. Whenever her temper sparked—which happened often—the magic tended to flow with it.
The attendant bristled at her demand. Based on the sharp glint in the woman’s eyes when she opened her mouth, another denial was about to follow.
A fancy auto-stylus attached to a typewriter sat on the desk and bore Kylock’s tinker imprint—a K with a surrounding cog. The fancy piece of tech could imprint different fonts and handwriting onto letters and would sell for a high price in a lot of the upscale salons. That would do just fine.
Theo lifted her hand, and the conductive ring she wore nearly vibrated from the magic at her fingertips. Wisps of it condensed in the air, like tufts of cumulus clouds, at her will. She urged the energy onward with a twist of her wrist, and the buttons on the typewriter began to type. The stylus lowered to the blank pad of paper.
“I can send this machine into a frenzy in about three seconds,” Theo said. “I don’t suppose your employers will appreciate their fancy equipment getting broken. Now, take me to Silas.”
The stylus moved faster and faster, scribbling more furiously with every keystroke she manipulated from afar. Condensation filled the air with the outpouring of magic, like the steam that billowed out of the machinery in the city. The woman’s eyes widened and she threw her hands up in defense.
“Stop, stop,” she bit out, the fear illustrated by the pallor on her skin. “I’ll take you back to the workroom.”
Theo’s kind was rare enough that when they encountered normal folks on the street, respect or fear became common currency. After all, not everyone had the ability to manipulate mechanics with magic.
The woman led her through the fancy trappings of the parlor, from the bookshelves filled with leather-bound tomes to the mahogany table and chairs next to a cabinet displaying crystal glasses and decanters of fine liquor. This wasn’t the sort of place meant for ruffians like herself.
Theo’s footsteps echoed down the hall, her thick-soled boots made for stomping, unlike the quiet click of the woman’s heels while she guided her to a double door at the end of the main corridor. Her loose curls tickled her neck, annoying her enough to bat them out of the way before she came to a stop in front of the workroom doors. Her agitation threatened to bubble over the moment she stepped foot inside this place. The attendant bent forward, inputting a number sequence. A series of whirrs and clicks followed until the lock opened.
“Step along now,” Theo said, swerving past the woman’s petticoats to grab the knob. “I’m sure I can handle the rest.” For extra emphasis, she waggled her fingers in the attendant’s direction, which had the desired effect of sending her scurrying. If the ladies and gents were going to treat her like a freak, she might as well reap the benefits.
The door whispered as she pushed it open and stepped into the heart of rolling steam that kissed her cheeks and burning metal that tickled her nose. Absinthe-colored aether bubbled up in tubes lining the room. The power-source not only served as fuel but also cast rays of light to add to the meager flicker the dim overhangs offered. A large workbench spanned the entire back wall, and every spare inch of the monstrosity was covered in projects.
The tick-tick-tick of clocks echoed through the place, coming from at least six different sources, and scrolls of blueprints and designs covered entire shelves of the three bookcases that towered along the right wall. Gears, lavers, burnishers and drills lay scattered about, half on the floor, half on the table and in no particular order. Amidst the chaos of the room, one man hunched over the worktable, neck-deep in his latest project.
“Silas, I know where your missing automaton is,” Theo called out, her voice echoing through the room.
The man’s shoulders tensed, and he placed whatever he was tinkering with down before swiveling around on his stool to face her. His rust-red hair glowed in the wake of the sheer amount of steam pumping through the room, and he lifted his goggles with their magnifying attachments to rest them on his head. He smirked upon meeting her gaze, the sheer amount of arrogance in his dark brown eyes igniting her temper on the spot. The man was too pretty for his own good, yet Theo refused to be swayed.
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