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Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them. But it's 1897, and they need to be very careful—falling in love can be dangerous for men like them.

It is 1864, and London is a city in transition. The Constantine Affliction - a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex - has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city.

Beauregard Ulysses Brabham is the moonshine-drinking, butt-kicking Great-Grandfather to today’s favorite redneck, half-baked, almost-government-agent Bubba the Monster Hunter. These stories explain how the Brabham family got mixed up in monster hunting, where his magical sword came from, and how Bubba got his inhuman tolerance for moonshine. (Hint: genetics)

A madman rises to power in the West and is determined to derail the United States government and install himself and his cronies into power. He is willing to go to any length to win power, even if it means summoning the powers of darkness to help him. Holmes and Watson find out about the plot when a great Western author, Mark Twain, seeks their help in finding his lost friend.

Grand Admiral Winifred Darling has just been promoted to command the entire defenses of The Brytish Admiralty. Her first assignment is to defend the Kingdom against the return of the disgraced exile Captain James Hooker. Allied with a fleet of she-pirates and his eldritch paramour, the witch Elspeth, Hooker is bent on the destruction of the ruling family including the infant Peter, Prince of the Air Nation.

The choice of bringing a book out of the dustbin of history and making it more easily available to the general public should be an easy decision, right? Not in the case of The Wonderful Electric Elephant written by Frances Montgomery. Listeners can hear exactly what Frances Montgomery wrote and decide for themselves what they think of it. Parts of this novel are a vile stain on history and society. But, I must also add that she wrote some innovative ideas and had some imaginative concepts which were ahead of her time.

Twenty years after the American Civil War, former slave Marcus Riggs is trapped in a British Harbor after the invaders came to enslave all mankind. Now, the invaders are gone, and new orders clash as humanity rises from the ashes...but are the aliens gone for good?