Series: Walter & Eleanor

A Walter & Eleanor Swashbuckling Tale

Walter and Eleanor Gresham have faced impossible things before.

They have never faced anything quite this much fun.

When Walter, Eleanor, and their irrepressible young companion Sekmet approach a mysterious house outside Palestine, Texas, they expect another encounter with the inexplicable. Instead, they find themselves aboard Endeavour—transformed into an aeroship sailing through a fantastic realm of floating islands, impossible storms, sky-going monsters, and larger-than-life adventurers.

Walter is suddenly “Little John.” Eleanor discovers she rather enjoys being “Maid Marian.” Sekmet has somehow become the spirit of the ship. And Captain Roderick Vale and his Merry Men are exactly the sort of cheerful lunatics who consider flying directly into an aetherstorm a perfectly reasonable plan.

At the heart of that storm waits Jin Tao, the self-proclaimed Lord of the Nine Winds, an ancient artifact he believes he has mastered, and a fortress where gravity is more suggestion than law.

To get home, Walter and Eleanor must survive a kraken, storm a castle in the sky, and unravel the secret of the mysterious Sphere of Worlds. What they discover may be far more important than escaping this particular adventure—for hidden inside Jin Tao’s fortress is the first real clue to understanding the impossible forces that brought them there.

High Adventure is a fast-moving steampunk novelette filled with aerial battles, swashbuckling swordplay, wuxia-inspired action, impossible worlds, Victorian heroes, and the sort of adventure where boarding a castle makes perfect sense—provided no one has thought of it before.

A Lost World Adventure Featuring Newlyweds, a Hidden Island, Prehistoric Creatures, and a Secret Man-Made Ecosystem

A honeymoon voyage to Antarctica was supposed to be an escape.
Instead, it becomes the discovery of a lifetime.
In an alternate 1891 shaped by steam power, Tesla technology, and interplanetary exploration, Walter and Eleanor Gresham journey aboard the expedition vessel Endeavor expecting adventure, scientific discovery, and a few quiet weeks together far from politics and industry.
What they find is something impossible.
Hidden beyond storm walls and volcanic cliffs lies a secret world untouched by modern civilization: towering cloud forests, prehistoric beasts, ancient systems still silently functioning after ages untold, and a mysterious young woman guarding knowledge powerful enough to transform the balance of the world.
But discovery carries a price.
Industrial powers hunger for new resources. Rival nations race for technological supremacy. And buried beneath the island rests a secret capable of reshaping the future of Earth itself.
To survive, Walter and Eleanor must navigate deadly jungles, relentless predators, impossible engineering mysteries, and the growing realization that some discoveries are too powerful to belong to any one nation.
Antarctic Honeymoon combines steampunk adventure, alternate history, lost-world exploration, prehistoric survival, and sweeping scientific wonder into a high-stakes expedition filled with mystery, danger, discovery, and hope.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• Steampunk and gaslamp adventure
• Alternate history science fiction
• Lost-world expeditions
• Dinosaur survival fiction
• Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired exploration
• Scientific mystery and ancient technology
• Romantic adventure partnerships
• Grand-scale speculative worldbuilding

The world beyond the storm has survived in secrecy for centuries.
Now the modern age has found it.

They have fallen into a Gothic nightmare. The trouble is, the story hasn’t been written yet.

Walter and Eleanor Gresham should be in East Texas in 1894.

Instead, they awaken in England eleven years earlier—young, engaged rather than married, and arriving at Knebworth House for what appears to be an idyllic visit with Eleanor’s parents. Even Sekmet, their lion-eared supernatural guardian, has been transformed into an elegant Victorian companion.

For Eleanor, the impossible world offers something even more dangerous than monsters: the happy family life she always wished she had.

Then Lucy Westenra begins to weaken.

A mysterious foreign nobleman stalks the night. Wolves answer his call. An eccentric Dutch physician named Abraham Van Helsing arrives with garlic, crucifixes, and disturbing knowledge of the undead. And among the guests at Knebworth is an observant Irish writer named Bram Stoker—quietly taking notes about events that seem increasingly familiar.

Soon Walter, Eleanor, and Sekmet are hunting a vampire across Victorian England alongside Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker. But the deeper they pursue Count Wampyr, the more the world comes apart. Journeys take impossible amounts of time. Memories contradict themselves. Events occur before their causes.

And Bram writes things down before they happen.

The vampire is real. He is deadly.

But he may not be the greatest danger.

Something is taking dreams, fears, memories, and unwritten stories—and making them real. Unless Walter and Eleanor can discover the rules of this impossible world before the story reaches its ending, they may become characters in a nightmare from which there is no escape.

Goth Galore is a stand-alone Walter & Eleanor Gothic adventure blending Victorian alternate history, classic vampire fiction, supernatural mystery, romance, and high adventure.

Before there was Dracula, there was Count Wampyr.
And this time, the vampire hunters know enough to change the story.