A Midsummer Night's Mechanical by Kirsten Weiss

A Midsummer Night's Mechanical
by Kirsten Weiss
Sensibility Grey Book Three
A Midsummer Night’s Murder

The California Territory, 1849 Blamed for burning down the San Francisco wharf, clockwork inventor, Sensibility Grey has spent the last three months in hiding. Now all she wants is to depart the gold-crazy boomtown for a new life in the East. So when the owner of a traveling theater offers her work embellishing his mechanical stage, she turns him down. Then he turns up dead on her doorstep along with his enigmatic stage.

An explorer of the mysteries of aether, Sensibility has her own secrets to keep, and adversaries who’ll stop at nothing to learn them. Is the mechanical stage a part of a bigger game? Or the key to unlocking her true, magical potential?

Genre: Steampunk Suspense
Content/Theme(s): Clockwork, Inventor, Historical, Fantasy
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Publisher: Misterio Press

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Of Mice and Mechanicals by Kirsten Weiss

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Of Mice and Mechanicals
by Kirsten Weiss
Sensibility Grey Book Two
Mechanicals, Mayhem, and Murder.

All Sensibility Grey wants is to tinker in her new laboratory in boomtown San Francisco. A stranger in a strange land, she is finally making a life for herself as a purveyor of mechanicals to eager miners.

But a pair of government agents have other things in mind.

Loves and loyalties fracture, and mysterious forces threaten to destroy Sensibility and her clockwork secrets. Tangling with occultists, aether gone wrong, and a local vigilante group, Sensibility must decide where her allegiances lie, and whom she can trust.

Book two in the Sensibility Grey series of pre-steampunk, paranormal suspense set in the wild west of the California gold rush.

Genre: Historical Fantasy
Content/Theme(s): Suspense, Fae, Magic, Steampunk, Paranormal, Supernatural
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Publisher: Misterio Press

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Steam and Sensibility by Kirsten Weiss
A Steampunk Novel of Old California
Sensibility Grey Book One

Steam rising.

California Territory, 1848. Gold has been discovered, emptying the village of San Francisco of its male population. Steam-powered technology is still in its infancy.

At nineteen, Englishwoman Sensibility Grey has spent her life tinkering in her father’s laboratory and missing the finer points of proper British life. But when her father dies in penury, she’s shipped to San Francisco and to the protection of an uncle she’s never met.

The California Territory may hold more dangers than even the indomitable Miss Grey can manage. Pursued by government agents, a secret society, and the enigmatic Mr. Krieg Night, Sensibility must decipher the clockwork secrets in her father’s final journal, unaware she’ll change the world forever.

Magic, mayhem, and mechanicals. A pre-Steampunk novel of paranormal suspense set in the wild west of the California gold rush.

Genre: Steampunk Historical Fantasy
Content/Theme(s): Paranormal, Suspense, Magic, 1800s, Gold rush
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Publisher: Misterio Press

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