Another thug who wanted to interrogate her about her father’s alchemical masterpiece, probably. Who in tarnation brought a sword to the Klondike? He gripped a rifle in one gloved hand, and the hilt of something-a sword?-poked over his shoulder. With those broad shoulders and that height, she assumed it was a man, though a cap buried his eyebrows and a scarf swaddled most of his face. Kali spun toward the door, her long braid whipping around her shoulder.Ī fur-clad figure loomed, head an inch shy of the top of the frame.
Hinges creaked, and a gust of frigid air hurled snow into the workshop. If it wasn’t…winning the race would be the last of her worries. The ice on Forty Mile Creek ought to be thick enough for the heavy steam sled. Besides, it’d been cold enough the last week men were complaining of pee freezing before it hit the ground. She had stripped every extra piece of metal she could from the “dogless sled” and had even debated removing the brush bow, but that seemed unwise. Kali McAlister tapped a wrench against her thigh as she contemplated her invention. When a sword-slinging stranger shows up, wanting to hire on as her protector, she’s sure he has ulterior motives, but he’s the only one interested in helping her.
Unfortunately, the other racers won’t assist her–they’re too busy scheming ways to sabotage her unorthodox sled. With her modified rifle and a pocketful of home-made smoke bombs, Kali wouldn’t normally hide from a confrontation, but taking on a whole airship single-handedly is a daunting task. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father’s alchemical masterpiece. You can grab it for $0.99 FREE at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Smashwords.Įighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered “dogless sled” in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. Flash Gold is an 18,000-word steampunk novella set in the Yukon during the Gold Rush era.
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