Captain John Hardwick, an embittered army veteran and opium addict, is released from captivity in Burma and returns home, only to be recruited by a mysterious gentlemen’s club to combat a supernatural threat to the British Empire.This is the tale of a secret war between parallel universes, between reality and the supernatural; a war waged relentlessly by an elite group of agents; unsung heroes, whose efforts can never be acknowledged, but by whose sacrifice we are all kept safe.

    She didn’t listen.Madlin Errol is heiress to the greatest fortune in Tellurak. Her father, the Mad Tinker, has built an empire by crafting devices that no one else in the world could match. Madlin grew up spoiled, given everything she could wish for: the finest tools, all the raw metals she could ask for, and a workshop of her very own. Yet in her sleep, she lives another life, in another world.Korr...a world where humans are subjugated, working menial jobs or even enslaved. The ruling kuduks treat them like talking animals. In that world, Madlin is known as Rynn, a girl who grew up without her parents, mired in the depths of an underground city, sleeping in a boiler room. But unlike so many of her fellow humans, she has seen a world where there are no limits. She, and a growing number of human rebels, have begun to fight back.

    In this age of dramatic technological advancement, Vandercroft was fascinated by how the rise of steam technology at the start of the American Civil War had transformed warfare and the role of the fighting man. This volume collects all of Vandercroft's surviving paintings, along with his associated commentary on the specific military units he encountered.

     To add insult to injury, I just walked in and found her fucking my now soon-to-be ex-husband. Then there's this guy named Lynx who wears trench coats, shoots from the hip, and has a massive crush on me. He showed up out of nowhere, tried to assassinate me, and now he won't stop following me around. Pretty sure I hate him, but that's a matter for another day. This steampunk-nightmare bullshit that's become my life, I could do without. Hi, I'm Indigo Lewis, and if you like talking cats (with bad attitudes), golden trains that ferry folks between worlds, and alternate dimensions that run on cogs, gears, and magic … then you're as crazy as the rest of these assholes. Read my story, see what you think. Maybe I'm as mad as you are? INDIGO & IRIS (Clockwork Phoenix #1) - is a 92,000 word steampunk/urban fantasy novel with a badass female lead, a charismatic love interest named Lynx, and a world woven out of magic. Includes cursing, firefights, sexual situations, witty banter, talking parrots with inappropriate vocabularies, and supernatural trains.