Pirate Widows of London: A Dame Millie Steampunk Novella
Millie has returned!
“Some choices are unforgivable.”
Widow, former hermit, and mechanical insect expert Dame Millie Day-Butterfield is newly knighted and newly wed. She struggles to move on after the devastating Tower of London battle to save Great Britain, but with faces from the past revisiting her, whom can she trust?
In the midst of a looming ban on alchemy that will affect the Butterfields’ classified investigations into otherworldly aetherial devices, Millie’s irritating cousin Eliza comes to visit and seems intent upon staying forever. The secret of the battle comes to light, and soon Millie is forced to face the unexpected consequences of her desperate actions. To her horror, she finds the past repeating itself and may once again be forced to take to the skies in another rescue mission. But who will cause the greatest betrayal of all?
Only months after overcoming her isolation and coming to terms with her first husband’s death, Millie’s new life begins to fall apart, and she may lose everything.
Pirate Widows of London is the sequel to the award winning steampunk novella, Keeper of the Mechanical Insects.
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A Dangerous Mentor: A Threads of Magic Novella
In a land where touch is banned, only telepathic interrogation can reveal the secrets of a corrupt church.
Years after the plague has been lifted from Albion, people live in fear of telepaths, wearing gloves at all times. Mere touch has become taboo, and the Church of the One True Way rules the land with an iron fist.
Using the new railroad, Jairden travels throughout Albion searching for evidence with which to blackmail the High Priests.
He adopts young telepath Alexandra, who apprentices with him as she grows, at first delivering messages and later, conducting interrogations, all the while oblivious to the purposes behind Jairden’s threats and political connections. As she grows, she earns the dark truth about her past as well as the alarming extent of her mentor’s psychic abilities.
The avaricious Church has gone to excess, exacting high tithes and charging exorbitant amounts for medical treatment. High Priests use the funds to live lives of wealth. But who is hiding among them?
Exposing the Church could mean torture or death for Alexandra, but is Jairden the bigger threat?
This alternate universe novella is a new take on telepathy, politics, and assassination in the world of post-plague Albion. Can be read as a fast-paced standalone.
A Dangerous Charity: Threads of Magic Book 1
Some charities are not what they seem.
The enigmatic world of Victorian intrigue collides with dark magic and plague.
In a Victorian world ravaged by a mysterious plague, Charity’s telepathy is both her salvation and her curse. As her father, Lord Carolinus, wields his power to control every aspect of Charity’s life, her metaphysical abilities are her only defense against his cruelty.
Her fate becomes intertwined with the once-privileged Bridgette, a fallen Lady willing to risk everything for revenge. They begin a dangerous struggle which might unravel the fabric of their society in order to expose the secrets of the Lords and priests.
Disappearing children in a school run by the Church of the One True Way add a chilling layer to their journey. But how can Charity achieve justice without being accused of witchcraft?
In this meticulously crafted historical fantasy, Charity battles corruption, defies tyranny, and unveils the secrets hidden within the heart of the Church.
A Dangerous Charity is the first book in the exciting gaslamp fantasy trilogy Threads of Magic.
An Unwanted Charity: Threads of Magic Book 2
In this continuation of the Threads of Magic trilogy, Charity and Bridgette confront even greater challenges as they must save those they love from the relentless forces of plague and dark magic.
Excommunication threatens to strip Lord Carolinus of his estate, but what begins as a battle for property soon transforms into a harrowing examination of the Church of the One True Way’s secret crimes. Charity’s plans to reopen the school have come to a standstill.
Bridgette thought she had nothing left to lose. She was wrong. Her quest for justice takes a perilous turn as mind control leaves her loveless and penniless. She concocts a wild plan that may put them all at risk by asking for help from the very priests who want her dead.
Amidst these unfolding events, a victory against Lord Carolinus is short-lived after the plague threatens to destroy everyone Charity holds dear, and she must face her greatest fear of all– exposing her metaphysical powers to the Church.
An Unwanted Charity is the second book in the exciting gaslamp fantasy trilogy Threads of Magic by award winning author K. A. Quinn.
A Formidable Charity: Threads of Magic Book 3
In the conclusion to the Threads of Magic trilogy, Charity and Bridgette vow to bring justice to their plague-ridden Victorian world that is ruled by corrupt Lords and dark magic wielding High Priests.
Still reeling from the loss of a loved one, Charity is running out of time to save the rest of her friends. She does something she thought she’d never do: ask her father for help.
Bridgette must heal her relationship with Rose and learn to control her burgeoning powers while Charity faces her ultimate challenge, healing a plague victim while under public scrutiny in the place Bridgette fears most.
Bridgette and Charity struggle to stay one step ahead of Lord Carolinus, to determine his plans for patients secretly transferred to a new medical clinic. The daughter holds hope that her father is not beyond redemption.
Let all of Albion know the truth, and let the plague be lifted. Before it’s too late.
A Formidable Charity is the exciting finale of the gaslamp fantasy trilogy Threads of Magic by award winning author K. A. Quinn.
Keeper of the Mechanical Insects
The world changed while she hid in her grief.
Inventions from another world launch her into an adventure to save England.
Millie Day shut out the world after her husband died, but the world changed without her. Trouble explodes through her cellar wall in the form of a mysterious vortex through which mechanical devices arrive from another world. A ruthless inventor leads her on an adventure through the skies and even an attack on the Tower of London to save both the life of her new best friend and the future of Great Britain itself.
A steampunk adventure novella.
The Damaged
Experimentation to cure violent tendencies goes horribly wrong.
Gabriel Pullman is more than a little put out about being psychic, especially given that it keeps getting people around him killed. He was a victim of a revolutionary new medical procedure: an aggressive, preventative treatment of mental illness. Those who received the unexpected side effects of sensory hyperstimulation and even telepathic abilities call themselves the Damaged. The military recruits Gabriel to negotiate with the leader of the Damaged rebels, who are out for revenge against the society that has mistreated them, but he must also fight a dark personality within himself. Novella.
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Gabriel jolted, willed himself flat and uninteresting as a piece of paper, held onto the imagery with all his might. Sheer professional curiosity would get him through this. He’d done his homework. Time to impress the professor.
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Most surprisingly, there was a sudden absence of pain he hadn’t known was there, pain that he’d carried, diffused through his entire body for years. It was gone. The world around him hadn’t changed. Gabriel had.
The Accident Zone Trilogy
When a mysterious fusion explosion flattens the city of Macallister’s industrial district into a melted wasteland, psychic abilities crop up among the survivors. Among these are Ethan Sullivan, a grieving man determined to find the powerful Occultists responsible for the so-called accident, and Victoria Wight, a librarian who discovers a book about necromancy and a mysterious diary that may be key to understanding what is happening. Both find themselves the target of a stalker who has the power to possess minds and destroy souls. They become swept up in a plot to disable technology… and taking the blame for the destruction.
This is the first in a trilogy detailing the battle for the future of the city of Macallister and the very souls of its residents as strange accidents continue to occur and those with psychic abilities come under attack by others with magick as well as the government itself.
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