When I needed a small side table in my office to place beside my chair (to hold coffee/tea and cats), I decided to try making one of those awesome black steel steampunk tables that are everywhere on the internet.
Dragging out measuring tape and doing some quick calculations, I came up with my shopping list (most hardware stores should have these items, but I did my shopping at Home Depot). This project took all of one weekend (allowing for drying times) and was relatively simple to put together. I will warn you that screwing all the parts together just right will take some fiddling… and my table rocks just the slightest bit as I couldn’t get the feet perfectly level. A bit of sticky felt, however, solved my issues.
On the foggy streets of Victorian London, secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasy
THE GOLDEN SPIDER
Book One of the Elemental Web Chronicles
Lady Amanda blackmailed her way into a prestigious London medical school…
Not the preferred method of entrance, of course, but necessary, for it’s the only way to force Lord Thornton, a professor at the school, to help her perfect her invention: a clockwork spider capable of spinning artificial nerves.
And Lord Thornton is interested… but is he interested in Amanda, or simply the invention that could cure his own debilitating injury? Neither one can trust the other, but both know this: any attraction is a danger, any romance forbidden.
But when a foreign spy steals the spider and uses it to perform grisly experiments on human subjects, they must set aside both their differences and their growing attraction to capture the killer terrorizing the streets of London.