The Steampunk Empire Symposium is pleased to announce Cindy Spencer Pape as a guest of honor for 2014. Pape is the award winning author of the best-selling Gaslight Chronicles, and has released 16 novels and more than 30 shorter works. When not working on her next novel, or nose buried in a book, Pape is a regular at many Steampunk and Renaissance events. Her Gaslight Chronicles are the perfect blend of her Romance writing background and her love of Steampunk. Pape will be leading several panels on writing and Steampunk as well as giving readings from her latest works.
Magnus, Baron Findlay, longs to bring the wonders of the steam age to his remote island home, but his hands are full fighting the vicious kraken ravaging the coast. When he’s swept to sea during battle and washes up on the shore of an isle in the Hebrides, he is near death. Struggling to establish herself as one of the first female physicians in Edinburgh, Dr. Geneva MacKay is annoyed
when The Order of the Round Table sends her north to care for an injured highlander. To heal him, Geneva escorts the handsome warrior home, just in time to defend the villagers from another onslaught. As the attacks escalate and they work together to fight off the threat, neither Geneva nor Magnus can resist the overwhelming attraction between them. But as their relationship deepens, a new threat arises-from within the village itself…
Engineer Wink Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope . Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead. Because of his dark werewolf past, Liam tries to keep his distance, but can’t say no when Wink asks him to help find her friend’s missing son. They soon discover that London’s poorest are disappearing at an alarming rate, after encounters with mysterious “mechanical” men. Even more alarming is the connection the missing people may have with a conspiracy against the Queen. Fighting against time—and their escalating feelings for each other—Wink and Liam must work together to find the missing people and save the monarchy before it’s too late…
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