Storm & Fury A Storm and Fury Adventures Collection by Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin Genre: Paranormal Historical Adventure, Steampunk
New Pittsburgh, 1898 – a crucible of invention and intrigue. Born from the ashes of devastating fire, flood and earthquake, the city is ruled by the shadow government of The Oligarchy. In the swarming streets, people of a hundred nations drudge to feed the engines of progress. The Department of Supernatural Investigation was set up to take care of those things that live below, that go bump in the night… those odd cases that go beyond ‘standard’ investigation. Nicknamed ‘Storm and Fury’, Mitch Storm and Jacob Drangosavich are two of the more creative agents, working in New Pittsburgh and obeying the rules – when they have to. A collection of short stories and novellas set in the world of the Iron & Blood novels and the related Storm and Fury Adventures. Includes: Airship Down, Ruin Creek, Resurrection Day, The Hunt, Grave Voices, and Rogue. Plus two bonus stories: Ghost Wolf and a Steampunk fairy tale: The Patented Troll Goodreads * Amazon
Gail Z. Martin discovered her passion for science fiction, fantasy and ghost stories in elementary school. The first story she wrote at age five was about a vampire. Her favorite TV show as a preschooler was Dark Shadows. At age 14, she decided to become a writer. She enjoys attending science fiction/fantasy conventions, Renaissance fairs and living history sites. Larry N. Martin is the author of the new sci-fi adventure novel Salvage Rat. He is the co-author (with Gail Z. Martin) of the Spells, Salt, and Steel/New Templars series; the Steampunk series Iron & Blood; and a collection of short stories and novellas: The Storm & Fury Adventures set in the Iron & Blood universe. He is also the co-author of the upcoming Wasteland Marshals series and the Joe Mack Cauldron/Secret Council series. The Martins have three children, a Maltese, and a Golden Retriever. Website * Newsletter* Facebook * Pinterest Twitter * Twitter * Goodreads * Goodreads * Amazon
Lagniappe
“I’VE GOT TO catch that train!” Agent Jacob Drangosavich of the Department of Supernatural
Investigation opened the throttle on his steam-powered experimental velocipede, pushing the
steambike to its limits as he raced to catch up with the locomotive.
All of his attention was focused on the train, and he willed himself to go faster, closing the
distance between himself and the speeding locomotive.
Mitch Storm, his partner, was aboard that train, and he was counting on Jacob to back him
up. The sound of a gunshot in the train’s sole passenger car doubled Jacob’s resolve.
That’s got to be Mitch, Jacob thought. Question is, was Mitch doing the shooting or getting
shot?
Jacob coaxed a bit more speed from the velocipede, despite its straining engine. He was
gaining on the locomotive, close enough now to see the automaton in the cab, a metal man taking
the place of a human railroad engineer at the controls of the train. The click-clack of the train on
the rails drowned out the roar of Jacob’s steambike, and the clouds of smoke belched from the
locomotive’s stack drifted between him and his quarry, partially hiding him from view.
“Come on, come on,” he muttered to himself, pushing the velocipede for every bit of power
its engine could muster.
Jacob had a Peacemaker in a shoulder holster and another, less conventional weapon
holstered at his hip. The Department paid the best scientists in the country a premium to supply
them with top-secret, often one-of-a-kind weapons, tools, and gadgets that made the stories of
Jules Verne pale by comparison.
“Just a little more,” Jacob muttered, crouching low over the velocipede’s handlebars to
reduce the wind resistance. The steambike edged nearer to the train, and Jacob grabbed his
second gun, an odd contraption with a bulbous grip and a metal tube in the center of a coil of
wires. Jacob veered his bike a few crucial inches closer, leveled his weapon at the copper-faced
werkman at the train’s controls, and fired.
Haunting Pittsburgh
By Gail Z. Martin and Larry N. Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has a lot of history—and a lot of ghosts. It was a key fort in Colonial days, and
by the end of the 1800s, it had become the crucible of steam-driven manufacturing and invention. But
with that growth came tragedy, and from that, plenty of ghosts. Mine disasters, accidents in factories and
steel mills, bloody labor strikes and unlucky ships on the city’s three rivers all create the kind of history
that lends itself to ghosts.
Pittsburgh was also a melting pot for immigrants who came from all over Europe for jobs in the mills—
and brought their beliefs, superstitions, and magic with them. In the world of Storm and Fury, those
newcomers were also followed by supernatural creatures, family secrets, and Old World curses.
Mitch Storm and Jacob Drangosavich, agents for the secret Department of Supernatural Investigation,
take care of paranormal problems. They’ve got all of the latest experimental gadgets the department’s
genius inventors can dream up, and it’s their job to make sure that the things that go bump in the night get
dealt with so that regular people can sleep peacefully, blissfully unaware of the secrets that lurk in the
shadows.
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