In a reimagined 1890's London, where steam-driven airships rule the skies and monsters roam the streets, the Galileo Observatory's Club for Gentlemen welcomes all -- gwr, shape-changers, vampires, and lords. A high-stakes game leads more than a few men astray.<br><br>Poindexter Fitzhughes, renowned hero and scientist, learns just how much trouble a full-blooded gwr can be when he attempts to cure his lover, Lord Seth Maitland, of the disease. But when their backs are against the wall, the two must learn to trust in each other, and more importantly, in their true natures, to prevail.<br><br>Meanwhile, Duncan Farnsworth discovers being a vampire has not improved his social life, his chances of finding love, continuing the family line, or getting a bite to eat. Maneuvering his way around a sarcastic butler, his spinster sister, a run-in with an amorous werewolf, and a confrontation with a dead soldier and a French airship captain, Duncan finally finds exactly what he is thirsting for.

London Steam

He climbed out of the bed, leaving the sheets in a forgotten tangle, splashed water on his face, and listened to the silence inside his chest. He did not meet his own gaze in the mirror. Soulless and dead, he loathed his face, his eyes, with every fiber in him.


Reflected in the tiny, polished steel mirror, Anges watched him. A teasing smile painted her lips. “If I had nossing pressing to do,mon amant, I would bustle jou right back into that bed.”


Nigel turned away from his reflection and dropped a kiss on Anges’s bright curls. Somewhere in his still and lifeless chest, he found remembrance of flirting, not what it was to want a lover, but the words to say. “Tempt me not, oh my captain,” he said. “I’ll see you at the late watch, after your penny-farthing groundlings have left flight behind for home and hearth.”


Chapter 28