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Genre: Steampunk/Romance
"What is a heart if not the ultimate clockwork?"
Abigail’s young life was saved by the kindness of strangers:
Schuyler Algernon, the man who found her collapsed on coldcity streets,
and Quinn Godspeed, the doctor who risked everything by breaking the
law to keep her fragile heart beating.
As the truth about what she’s become and her feelings for her savior overtake her, Abigail is forced to ask what constitutes life, living, and what dark secrets are contained within Godspeed’s past and the walls of Schuyler’s house.
Excerpt:
Quinn observed me, and, as ever, nothing got past
him. He tossed his coat onto a chair, strode forward, and held the door that
led to the hall open for me. As I moved to walk past, he spoke softly, in an almost
impassioned tone. “You must beware curiosity most of all, young woman.” His
whole body seemed to stiffen, his shoulders thrust back with bitter
indignation. “I know what it is that you are thinking. You are thinking that
there is some deeply held secret within me that, could you but free me of it,
would cause me to behave more as normal men do. Men that you may have known in
the past, in the life you refuse to speak of.”
I looked away. My cheeks burned, and, I was certain,
turned scarlet.
“I should warn you that I have never been a normal
man, Elsewhere.” He stressed the name with the marked irritation of
someone denied something duly owed them. “And the secrets that I keep are
deeper and darker than any ten men of abnormal nature. So it would be to your
peril to persist in your wondering.” He drew a breath and continued. “Beware
the answers,” he warned. “You are in no way prepared to even consider
the questions they belong to.”
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GODSPEED* has been a #1 Amazon Bestseller in Steampunk Fiction on three separate occasions: In October of 2013, March 2014, and February 2015.