An ambitious young milliner. A shy noblewoman fleeing an arranged marriage. Love is a risk neither can afford.Solange doesn't have time for love. She's too busy working her way up in the Parisian millinery trade. Her goal: to become rich and lift her family out of poverty. So when a beautiful aristo whirls into the millinery fascinated by hat making, Solange isn't interested. Or so she tells herself.Louise-Marie hates the fancy parties she's dragged to at Versaille...

"I remember how things used to be. I had a garden with flowers in it. I've seen the ocean, I've eaten real food. Now all we've got is this."Bermondsey's inhabitants are shut in, all their needs met in automated tower blocks. No one goes outside because the streets regularly flood. Just to keep rich people on the other side of the river safe.Idonny's days are spent answering pointless online surveys for luxury goods she'll never see, her nights in t...

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...

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 ...

Some secrets are hidden in ruins. Others are hidden inside us.In Remnants, long-buried worlds reopen and forgotten truths rise to the surface. A locket unlocks possibility. A sister challenges the rules of death. Gods hedge their answers, fae twist their bargains, relics hum with old power, and even lost memories refuse to stay silent.Across the gamut of speculative fiction, these stories follow women who uncover what was buried—whether by time, by power, or by choice—and m...

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,...