Steampunk

For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war....

One of the first things a private detective learns is that people have secrets, and people with important secrets attract trouble.

Since time immemorial the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world....

Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster hasn't even broken in his lieutenant's insignia when he's summoned to meet with the Spirearch of Spire Albion himself for a very special—and very secret—purpose....

Magic powers? His own mech? A whole airship of gorgeous women desperate for his genes? Yes, please! Paralyzed by a drunk driver, let go from his job, and stuck in a sad, stagnant town in the middle of nowhere, Joseph Locke was having the worst day of his life. And then he died.

Can you outrun the past? Can you outlive the future? One time traveler must find out. Accidental time traveler Ben Travers is thrown into a multiverse of adventure in this action-adventure through past and future....

Two new apprentices. One charming engineer. A potential battle with both sea serpents and evil sorcerers.

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night....

When you steal a hundred grand from some very bad people, the best way to survive is to stay small and quiet....

Steve and Ingrid have escaped the clutches of Athena, but Steve is still learning, both about his place in the world, and his capabilities...not to mention those of the creatures that surround him. Ingrid, too, must find her way in this new world, and the pair need a plan....

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal....

General Ridgewalker Zirkander is getting married. Sardelle - the woman who’s battled dragons, shamans, and countless enemy soldiers at his side - has accepted his proposal, and it’s the perfect time for a wedding....

Responsible for her friend's death, Lieutenant Caslin Ahn wants nothing more than to be left alone....

After kicking an unholy amount of undead ass, Hector and his dragon have new goal: to revive the war-torn province of Myzsno, preferably before their nemesis arrives with his army and a legion of Drachan, demonic dragons that would make even H. P. Lovecraft scream in terror....

Ridge, Sardelle, and their comrades may have rescued Tolemek's sister and freed the dragon, but trouble awaits at home....

An enforcer wanted dead for crimes she didn’t commit.... An assassin wanted dead for crimes he did commit.... Normally, they would be enemies, but they both seek the same thing: exoneration....

Captain Astuawilda Kaika is an elite forces soldier, a demolitions expert, and a woman who loves secret missions. She most certainly isn't someone with the patience to teach....

An elite forces officer with a dreadful reputation. A bookish paleontologist with a love for mysteries. An ancient stronghold full of secrets that will take both of them to unearth....

Telryn "Trip" Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he's struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother's execution. Her crime? Witchcraft....

Everyone knows dragons have been extinct for over 1,000 years. Everyone is wrong....

The Venture has taken flight and set off to explore the dimension of Taryl. Their trip should have been an easy one, traveling from town to town. Instead they're facing monsters and mayhem at every turn....

Nature is dying. Perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine, nature itself can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a mushroom-loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger in order to accomplish the goal that brought them to this place....

Mists of Kragdon-ah tells the story of what happened to Alex, Monda-ak, Amy, and Sanda, and everyone aboard The Senta-eh inside the fog. Mysterious airships, strange creatures never seen on Earth, and dangerous quests will keep you on the edge of your seat....

Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer....

Sam watches the demonic forces of darkness as they engulf and destroy the land of Westria. The final battle is over. Or so Sam thinks. In the last moments before the world’s end, Sam is given a second shot to save everything he holds dear. He’ll be sent back in time....

Kase Shackley is an embittered hover pilot still reeling from the night his sister died in his arms. He's a screw up in every sense, so when a pilot nearly dies on his watch, he faces serious charges. Seeking to clear his name, he flies a ragtag crew to a lost and dangerous land from which they might never return. If only he didn't have to work with the infuriating bookshop girl who insulted him with Shakespeare

My name is Aiko Tsuniki, and I was the unluckiest man on Earth. All of that changed when I found myself in another world. And I mean all of that changed. I was no longer a man, no longer a human, and no longer on Earth. I was, somehow, brought to the world of Manami, a steampunk fantasy world of industrialist goblins and elves, mechpilot dwarves, and adventurers of all kinds, plying their skills against dragons, monsters, and even international conspiracies. What's a brand new kitsune with no idea how to use magic, nothing to go home to, and no way back anyway, going to do? Become an ...

When a young woman is brutally murdered in a back alley, the police quickly turn to Alex Lockerby to help them. Hampered by the fallout from his own secrets, Alex goes to work, only to find that the victim in this case had secrets of her own, starting with her identity. As Alex tries to trace the origins of the mysterious murder victim, a woman comes to his office, begging Alex’s help because she believes the new house she’s purchased is haunted. When Alex investigates the house, he finds that even it holds a secret, one that someone is willing to kill to keep.

A High-Flying Adventure Captain Bacchus, the daring sky-pirate, and the fearless crew of The Glee are in a race against time as they flee from the relentless pursuit of the powerful merchant lords. With the kingdom's future at stake, they must brave the dangerous skies and seek out allies to aid them in their escape. Join the crew on a thrilling journey filled with adventure and excitement as they navigate their way to freedom and discover what it truly means to be free in the skies. Grounded and on the Run Zephyr, a young thief, and Priscilla, the bastard princess, are separated from their...

A kingdom in peril, a sky-pirate crew imprisoned, and a young hero's destiny takes flight. Zephyr, the daring thief turned hero, and Priscilla, the bastard princess, arrive at the Kingdom of Branica, only to find it teetering on the edge of disaster. With the King absent and the Queen wielding unchecked power, they're quickly ensnared in a web of deceit and danger. When Captain Bacchus and the infamous crew of The Glee are captured, Zephyr and Priscilla find themselves on the run once again. With the odds stacked against them, they must rally unlikely allies, outwit their enemies, and ...

An encounter with an old friend becomes tragically fatal, and Indrajit and Fix set out on a high-stakes, high-adrenaline quest across the ancient city of Kish to bring their friend back to life. At each step, the complications and the enemies alike pile up. The mysterious necromancers, the Vin Dalu priests, bind the heroes on an errand that sends them shuttling from one thieves' guild to the next, pitting Indrajit and Fix against the deadly House of Knives and embroiling them in a plot by the giant, wasplike Kattak to take dire revenge on Kish and all its great houses.

Magic powers? His own mech? A whole airship of gorgeous women desperate for his genes? Yes, please! Paralyzed by a drunk driver, let go from his job, and stuck in a sad, stagnant town in the middle of nowhere, Joseph Locke was having the worst day of his life. And then he died. But considering that he wakes up with a brand new body, in the cockpit of a badass steampunk robot, on an airship of nothing but hot babes, his next life may not be all that bad. Especially when he learns that he’s a void mage—the rarest and most powerful of all mages on the world of Haven.

THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves. But even the darkest secrets cannot remain hidden forever, and when lies come to light, the price he pays for his silence may very well be his undoing.

THE WARDEN. Soren is a nameless, stateless man, tasked with keeping watch over Maricol’s borders. He isn’t meant for politics, only dealing with the dead. His past was buried in the poison fields, but after a fateful encounter with a prince, Soren comes to realize he can’t keep what magic burns inside him hidden forever.

THE MARSHAL. Melvin Kaur is a nobleman, a magician, and a high-ranking cog in the Clockwork Brigade working out of Istal. His well-established spot in high society is a grand cover for the smuggling his family oversees. But when a handoff goes wrong, and Melvin is forced to flee through the night with his charges, he finds unexpected help from an endearing man in the unlikeliest of places.

Captain Alenia Yaleria called her, "the most adventurous woman we've ever known." Tessa Chart: Adventurer, Warrior, Cartographer, and incurable romantic. The Truthbearer and the Lord Librarian have sent her on a mission: Map the Nine Worlds and find the "Thin Places" where Lordabove is closest to His creation. No one has ever made maps of the entire Nine Worlds before, but if it can be done, Tessa will do it. With her airship crew of Elves, Drow, Librarians, and a half-elf who just may be the love of her life, Tessa Chart will go to the places where legends were born, and what once was ...

Killing a cannibal overlord was just the beginning. Now there’s a war to win, and the odds are getting worse. For capturing a dirigible from the cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Legion and rescuing rebel chieftain Alonzo Merrill, Andrew Sutter earned a promotion. Now the rebel armies are carving a bloody swath toward the old capital of Jacinto. Victory seems near as the man-eaters crumble before the Merrills’ salvaged Old World arsenal. But Grendel, first lord of the Northlands, marches south to turn back the tide. Although he had planned to betray the Flesh-Eaters and replace them with his ...

Yes, there are more tales from the Black Hart Library and this effort was titled accordingly. You might ask, “And what will follow this? Even More Tales?” Stay tuned friends. When we last saw the Professor, he had just finished crashing an RDAS (Royal Dirigible Airship Service) airship following their encounter with the perfidious Livonians. Certainly, Wing Commander Wendell was not pleased by the damage (from an insurance perspective, he totaled it) to her very nice dirigible, and she was last seen puffing agitatedly on her Peterson briar pipe all the while waving hands and shouting ...

This is a Mid-Century Modern science-based novel. In point of fact, Tales from the Black Hart is the foundational series of novels in the Mid-Century Modern school of literature and architecture. What then, you ask, constitutes, and characterizes the key MCM attributes? Examples please, Professor? Can a dirigible be MCM? Certainly. Even more-so if it is painted like a Faberge Egg. Are pink and black bathroom subway tile MCM? Sadly, yes. The Savinelli 614 Hungarian style tobacco pipe? Rustic finish? Of course, my friend. What about kindly elderly mad-scientist professors shuffling about in ...

Any reasonably exciting scientific endeavor entails some level of risk, how else do we explain so many research laboratories mysteriously exploding, or just completely disappearing, leaving gaping holes in the ground that will eventually become a rather nice pond for racing small model boats on sunny days. And while we are at it, what is the relationship between soaring airships and instantaneously vanishing laboratories? Thin air mate! Unusually suspicious minds might suspect that that our Professor, aka Professor Bajusz (mustache) to his increasingly shrinking circle of friends, is the ...