Historical fantasy romance where science flirts with magic, love defies the odds, and every discovery could be deadly.
Though USA TODAY bestselling author Anne Renwick holds an M.A. in Physical Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology and greatly enjoyed tormenting the overburdened undergraduates who were her students, fiction has always been her first love. Today, she writes steampunk and gaslamp-infused historical fantasy romance, blending cutting-edge biotechnology, mad science, and 19th-century intrigue with strong heroines, formidable men, and daring villains.
Anne brings an unusual perspective to fantasy romance. A number of years spent locked inside the bowels of a biological research facility left her permanently altered. In her novels, the Victorian-era fascination with anatomy and technology led to alarming inventions—ones the enemies of Britain would dearly love to possess.
When not writing, she wanders through life with her pathologist husband, seeking the darkly curious and delightfully strange. Over the years, she’s raised two sons, now engineers, giving her firsthand experience with relentless curiosity, creative destruction, and the art of building things that probably shouldn’t exist.
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, M.A. in Anthropology, B.A. in Biology
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Books
Elemental Web Chronicles
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp fantasy elements, and a strong female lead. This adult romantasy features a wounded, introspective hero, a spy-driven mystery, slow-burn forbidden romance, and high-tension collaboration between academic rivals. A fast-paced, dark science–inflected love story set in Victorian London.
Title: THE GOLDEN SPIDER
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 1 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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On the foggy streets of Victorian London, secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasy
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.
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In Victorian London, Lady Amanda—a brilliant woman in science—blackmails her way into medical school to perfect a revolutionary clockwork spider capable of spinning artificial nerves. Forced into partnership with Lord Thornton, a brooding professor and academic rival, she’s drawn into a forbidden rivals-to-lovers romance when the invention is stolen and used in dark human experiments.
Set in a richly detailed gaslamp and steampunk world of spies, murder, and mad science, The Golden Spider is a fast-paced historical fantasy romance filled with slow-burn tension and high stakes.
ASIN: B01JEU08I0
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9977475-0-8
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-42-9
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-59-7
Audiobook Narrators: Timothy Campbell, Zara Hampton-Brown
Publication date: August 8, 2016
Book 1 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
96K words | 379 pages | 10 hrs and 34 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp adult high-spice fantasy romance, and a strong female lead who is a daring spy. This fast-paced romantasy features a fake marriage / only-one-bed trope, science fiction with gothic elements, and spicy, slow-burn forbidden romance on the run. Expect high-stakes collaboration, danger, and desire in a darkly inventive Victorian Era.
Title: THE SILVER SKULL
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 2 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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When science and secrets collide, where cures can kill, and the best intentions lead to deadly peril
Determined to avoid an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stowed away inside a dirigible.
Only to find herself imprisoned in a castle with no hope of rescue. So much for proving herself a worthy spy. Worse, survival hinges upon feigning marriage to the suspected double agent she was tailing—the handsome scientist Lord Rathsburn.
A mad count has kidnapped Rathsburn’s sister, and demands as the price of her freedom Rathsburn’s greatest invention: a bone-hardening technology to transform the count’s guardsmen into invincible soldiers.
Neither can trust the other. But their lives depend on working together: to keep their captors off-balance long enough to perfect Rathsburn’s technology, free his sister, escape the clutches of the count and—most of all—to keep this groundbreaking research out of enemy hands.
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Fleeing an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stows away on a dirigible—only to find herself imprisoned in a remote German castle with Lord Rathsburn, the brilliant scientist she was sent to spy on. Forced into a fake marriage and only-one-bed quarters, the lady and the lord must perfect a bone-hardening invention to save his kidnapped sister before it’s weaponized by a mad count.
The Silver Skull is a fast-paced steampunk and gaslamp Victorian fantasy romance filled with gothic science, forbidden attraction, high-spice tension, and deadly intrigue on the run.
ASIN: B01N7PU9G1
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9977475-3-9
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-43-6
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-60-3
Audiobook Narrators: Ella Lynch, Joe Jameson
Publication date: January 7, 2017
Book 2 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
105K words | 484 pages | 12 hrs and 15 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp adult fantasy, and a strong Scottish female lead. This fast-paced romantasy features a wounded navy hero, a doctor heroine, a medical mystery thriller, bio-mechanical creatures, and slow-burn, high-tension romance set against a dark maritime backdrop. Expect adventure, danger, and desire beneath storm-tossed Scottish skies.
Title: THE IRON FIN
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 3 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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Off the windswept shores of Scotland, unnatural and deadly secrets lurk beneath the waves
Isa McQuiston is caught between two worlds. Strange creatures are attacking her people, the injuries inflicted beyond her medical expertise. Men tossed ashore by the waves, drained of blood, a severed tentacle piercing their flesh. Any hope of finding answers involves forging a cautious alliance with a handsome outsider.
Dr. Alec McCullough, recovering naval officer, is investigating a rash of inexplicable octopus attacks, but his every effort is met with resistance. Coaxing an attractive young widow—the local healer—to allow him to examine the latest victim only leads to further complications.
Together, they uncover layers of deceit—and creatures fabricated from a fusion of both living and mechanical components. As innocent lives are callously sacrificed, Isa and Alec struggle to forge a future together while attempting to prevent a disaster of international proportions.
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Off the windswept shores of Scotland, healer Isa McQuiston confronts a series of brutal attacks that defy medicine—men washed ashore drained of blood, wounds marked by unnatural tentacles. Forced into alliance with Dr. Alec McCullough, a wounded naval officer investigating the same mystery, Isa uncovers bio-mechanical creatures engineered to kill and a conspiracy reaching far beyond her isolated community.
The Iron Fin is a fast-paced steampunk and gaslamp Victorian fantasy romance blending medical mystery, maritime danger, a strong Scottish heroine, and slow-burn, high-spice attraction beneath storm-tossed skies.
ASIN: B07C34BZ71
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-05-4
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-948359-44-3
Audiobook ISBN:978-1-9773432-6-0
Publication date: April 10, 2018
Book 3 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
111K words | 502 pages | 10 hrs and 34 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp adult high-spice fantasy romance, and a brilliant scientist heroine. This fast-paced romantasy features a damaged spy hero, dangerous biological secrets, gothic London intrigue, and slow-burn attraction sharpened by peril. Expect venomous mysteries, high-stakes investigation, forbidden desire, and a romance where science—and passion—can be deadly.
Title: VENOMOUS SECRETS
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 4 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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When the boundaries between scientific pursuit and personal risk blur, love and danger intertwine in the most unexpected ways
Cait McCullough, venom expert, is trouble personified. Bored, she longs for excitement. And investigating a vicious fanged creature who stalks its victims by lamplight in darkest London offers the perfect opportunity. Working with a handsome, unmarried agent? A delightful bonus.
Agent Jonathan “Jack” Tagert’s impending blindness threatens his line of work. The timing couldn’t be worse. When a deadly attack upon a lord at his brother’s engagement ball connects to a string of odd murders, the hunt begins for a seductive predator.
Societal scandal binds them together, sending them on a perilous mission to trace the creature’s past, to separate fact from myth. As the venomous truth slithers near, time is running out. Can the pair untangle a mystery and stop the body count from rising?
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In gaslit Victorian London, brilliant venom expert Cait McCullough teams up with a damaged Queen’s agent to hunt a seductive fanged predator stalking the city’s streets. Bound by scandal and a marriage of convenience, Cait and Jonathan “Jack” Tagert must unravel a deadly biological mystery before his failing eyesight—and a rising body count—end the investigation for good.
Venomous Secrets is a fast-paced steampunk and gaslamp fantasy romance blending gothic intrigue, dangerous science, slow-burn tension, and high-spice attraction.
ASIN: B091D2X35Y
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-32-0
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-45-0
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-35-1
Audiobook Narrators: Moira Quick, Gary Furlong
Publication date: June 10, 2021
Book 4 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
99K words | 466 pages | 11 hrs and 22 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy Victorian gaslamp fantasy romance with Norse mythology, marriage of convenience, and dangerous secrets rooted in science and folklore. This fast-paced romantasy blends steampunk adventure, living art, and slow-burn, high-spice romance set against the icy legends and politics of nineteenth-century Iceland.
Title: ICY BETRAYALS
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 5 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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Where living ink whispers ancient truths, the key to survival may lie in the roots they share
Lady Angela Tagert is no one’s pawn. A brilliant pharmacological botanist, she carries a secret within her skin—a living, photosynthetic tattoo. When her scheming brother sells her to the highest bidder, she makes a bold escape. A hasty marriage to a handsome stranger headed to Iceland may be far from ideal, but it buys her freedom.
Valtýr Árnason—airship captain, engineer, huldufólk—didn’t plan to return home with a wife. Smart, stubborn and beautiful, she’s a storm he never saw coming. But when a troll attacks her en route, he realizes just how deep he’s in. Past mistakes he’s kept carefully hidden are back to haunt them both.
Hunted by a villain determined to unlock the mystery of skin-bound magic, Angela and Val must unearth the truth behind a lost tradition—before it’s stolen, corrupted, and used to shatter more than kingdoms.
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Fleeing betrayal in Victorian London, brilliant pharmacological botanist Lady Angela Tagert escapes through a marriage of convenience to Valtýr Árnason, an Icelandic airship captain with secrets of his own. Marked by a living, photosynthetic tattoo rooted in Norse tradition, Angela becomes the target of enemies determined to claim skin-bound magic as ancient folklore collides with steampunk science.
Icy Betrayals is a fast-paced gaslamp fantasy romance blending Norse mythology, Icelandic folklore, living art, dragon-linked dirigibles, and high-spice slow-burn love amid ice, intrigue, and betrayal.
ASIN: B0F9JBVP57
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-63-4
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-64-1
Audiobook ISBN: not yet available
Publication date: September 2, 2025
Book 5 of 5: Elemental Web Chronicles
104K words | 488 pages
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp fantasy, and strong female leads. This fast-paced romantasy features a second-chance romance, forced proximity, a damaged hero, scientific mystery, and high-tension attraction set in nineteenth-century Wales. Expect sharp wit, slow-burn chemistry, rogue biology, and a love story where science—and the heart—are equally dangerous.
Title: A TRACE OF COPPER
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 1 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A small Welsh village. An interrupted romance. A rogue frog on the loose threatening their future.
New recruit to the Queen’s agents, Dr. Piyali Mukherji is given a simple first assignment. Travel to the small Welsh village of Aberwyn and solve the mystery of a young woman’s blue skin lesion. A challenging task, for the alarming infection is unlike anything she’s seen before—and it’s spreading.
Evan Tredegar, the town’s pharmacist and the only man to ever capture her heart, knows more than he’s telling. Despite his efforts to push her away, her touch reawakens old desires. As more villagers fall victim to the strange disease, he’ll have no choice but to reveal his secrets, even if it means sacrificing his freedom.
Together they must move past broken promises, capture a rogue frog, and stop the infection before it spreads out of control.
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Sent to a small Welsh village to investigate a spreading blue-skin infection, Dr. Piyali Mukherji never expects to come face-to-face with the man who once broke her heart. Forced into close collaboration with Evan Tredegar—the town’s secretive pharmacist and her former lover—Piyali must unravel a dangerous biological mystery involving a rogue frog and forbidden research before it consumes the village.
A Trace of Copper is a fast-paced Victorian gaslamp fantasy romance featuring a brilliant Indian heroine, second-chance love, forced proximity, damaged hero angst, sharp scientific intrigue, and slow-burn, high-spice tension.
ASIN: B078DP2MTV
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9977475-5-3
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-52-8
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-17-7
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: December 8, 2017
Book 1 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
36K words | 135 pages | 3 hrs and 56 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, gaslamp fantasy, and strong, brilliant heroines. This fast-paced romantasy features a second-chance romance, forced proximity, a damaged hero, scientific experimentation, mythological creatures, and high-stakes action set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Expect sharp banter, slow-burn passion, swordplay, dragons, and a love story forged under fire.
Title: IN PURSUIT OF DRAGONS
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 2 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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Secrets hidden inside a castle. The return of a lost love. A desperate fight to defeat the enemies who threaten their future.
In a laboratory behind the walls of a castle, Natalia Zakharova Kinross, Lady of Kinlarig, hides her many secrets. But for how much longer? For not only is a medical miracle embedded within her skin, a mythological dragon prowls the grounds. And there are men who will stop at little to lay claim to both.
Though Luke Dryden, cryptozoologist, is welcomed back to the castle at the tip of a blade, an old romance ignites. Until a lingering illness acquired in a secret biotechnology facility takes a turn for the worse – all while disaster circles. To help defend a lady and her dragon, he must attempt a risky cure.
As old enemies threaten their future, they will fight back to back in a desperate last stand…
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Behind the walls of a Scottish castle, Lady Natalia Zakharova Kinross guards impossible secrets—a medical miracle embedded in her skin and a living dragon on her land. When the man she once loved returns, pursued by enemies and dying from a lingering illness, old passion reignites amid siege and danger.
In Pursuit of Dragons is a fast-paced Victorian gaslamp fantasy romance featuring dragons, mad science, swordplay, and a steamy second-chance love forged in battle.
ASIN: B07FPQR5NK
Paperback: 978-1-948359-08-5
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-53-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-18-4
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: August 8, 2018
Book 2 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
48K words | 212 pages | 5 hrs and 29 mins
Perfect for readers who love steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp adult high-spice fantasy, and a strong female lead in a fast-paced romantasy. This London-set historical fantasy blends secret societies, science-inflected danger, and gothic intrigue with a second-chance, forbidden romance between a daring thief and the Queen’s agent who loves her. Featuring a fae-touched Scottish heroine, rooftop chases, and simmering tension, it’s a high-stakes love story where shadows hide both enemies—and desire
Title: A REFLECTION OF SHADOWS
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 3 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A thief with golden eyes. The spy who loves her. A mad scientist who will break hearts to expose her secrets.
Shunned for her odd eyes and an unnerving habit of slipping into shadows, Lady Colleen Stewart refuses to be caged—should she decide to marry, it’ll be for love and to a man of her choice. After all, she’d rather be racing over rooftops than waltzing across ballroom floors. So when the only man to ever tempt her heart invites her on a covert mission, she leaps into danger.
Nicholas Torrington, Queen’s agent, is running out of time. While work has him chasing his tail, his sister grows increasingly ill, and Colleen, the woman he would make his bride, has acquired another, determined suitor. To coax his favorite thief back into his arms, he’ll break every rule and lead her through the underbelly of London on a hunt for a mad scientist and a cure for his sister.
But the discovery of a burned-out laboratory provides more questions than answers, and they find themselves caught in a deadly game where they have become the prey. Surviving the ambitions of their pursuers will bring everything into sharp focus as they risk their very lives.
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Lady Colleen Stewart would rather race across London rooftops than submit to marriage or society’s rules. When the Queen’s agent who once stole her heart draws her into a covert hunt for a mad scientist and a life-saving cure, old desire and deadly secrets collide.
A Reflection of Shadows is a fast-paced gaslamp fantasy romance featuring a fae-touched Scottish heroine, secret societies, scientific danger, and a steamy second-chance love story set in Victorian London.
ASIN: B07PGHNY55
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-14-6
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-54-2
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-19-1
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: May 9, 2019
Book 3 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
73K | 334 pages | 8 hrs and 33 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, gaslamp fantasy, and strong, intelligent heroines. This fast-paced romantasy features a cozy holiday setting, teamwork, scientific mystery, a devoted hero, and high-stakes danger wrapped in mistletoe, snow, and slow-burn romance.
Title: A SNOWFLAKE AT MIDNIGHT
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 4 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A rare manuscript. A midnight promise. A villain who would steal them both away.
Pressured by looming deadlines and an annoying patron, Evie Brown, academic librarian, struggles to find joy this Christmas holiday. Worse, her sick father is ready to abandon treatments and surrender to fate – a decision she refuses to accept. Delving into a medieval manuscript, she searches for answers in the distant past.
For the woman who has stolen his heart, only a perfect proposal will do. Ash Lockwood, botanist, has transformed the rooftop greenhouse into a tropical fairyland. But when Evie begs him to help her harvest mistletoe at midnight, they venture down a different garden path – unaware that danger circles close.
When their plans implode and a murderer threatens their lives, only invention and teamwork will save them.
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In snowbound Victorian London, academic librarian Evie Brown searches a rare medieval manuscript for a cure that could save her father, unaware her research has drawn dangerous attention. As botanist Ash Lockwood prepares a midnight proposal inside a rooftop greenhouse, a hidden enemy watches from the shadows.
A Snowflake at Midnight is a fast-paced gaslamp fantasy holiday romance featuring gothic intrigue, scientific discovery, slow-burn romance, and festive peril.
ASIN: B07XKW28G8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-20-7
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-55-9
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-27-6
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: November 12, 2019
Book 4 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
43K words | 204 pages | 4 hrs and 44 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, gaslamp fantasy, and brilliant, determined heroines. This fast-paced romantasy features gothic mystery, time travel, paranormal intrigue, a cursed hero, and high-stakes adventure set on All Hallows’ Eve in nineteenth-century England. Expect secret passages, haunted estates, slow-burn passion, and a love story that transcends the boundaries of time.
Title: A GHOST IN AMBER
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 5 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A secret passageway. A tortured ghost. A love that transcends time.
On All Hallows’ Eve, Lady Diana Starr is poised to uncover a lost zoological treasure when an unfortunate steam accident threatens to destroy the chance of a lifetime. Locked in a race with her arch nemesis, she must toss aside all decorum and break rules—lest he destroy her dreams. Again.
Trapped in the past and doomed to re-live the night of his murder, Lord Leo Wraxall awakens at sunset. This year, something is different. Might an unexpected time traveler who arrives at his hidden workshop help alter his cursed fate?
But destiny refuses to relax its grip; the stars cannot be realigned. As adversaries threaten to snatch away a final thread of hope, Diana and Leo forge a new path into the future? Or will they be haunted for eternity by what might have been?
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On All Hallows’ Eve, Lady Diana Starr breaks into a manor house to uncover a lost zoological treasure—and finds a ghost trapped in time. Bound to the night of his murder, Lord Leo Wraxall has waited decades for a chance to change his fate.
A Ghost in Amber is a gothic Victorian gaslamp fantasy romance featuring ghosts, time travel, dark mystery, and a hauntingly passionate love that refuses to fade.
ASIN: B09F75Y9YZ
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-34-4
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-56-6
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-40-5
Audiobook Narrators: Stella Hunter, Elliott Matthews
Publication date: October 1, 2021
Book 5 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
40K words | 142 pages | 4 hrs and 3 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp fantasy, and brilliant, adventurous heroines. This fast-paced romantasy follows a second-chance romance between a daring paleontologist and a cryptobiologist as they navigate murder, smuggled artifacts, and mysterious creatures in nineteenth-century New Haven. Expect sharp wit, slow-burn chemistry, high-stakes adventure, and a love story where the past—and the bones they uncover—hold secrets worth dying for.
Title: A WHISPER OF BONE
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 6 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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Strange, secretive neighbors. Groundhogs run amok. The steep price of resurrecting the past.
After years of avoiding his family, cryptobiologist Ryan Nolan returns to New Haven to investigate rumors of a dragon sighting. Yet instead of a giant mythological lizard, he stumbles upon a dead body. Connecting the murder to missing Mexican artifacts leads him on a path straight back to his long-lost love, Charlotte.
Charlotte Reid has never been one to shy away from a challenge. As a bone hunter in the Wild West and a paleontologist in the East, she has a taste for adventure. But when secretive neighbors move in next door, and strange groundhogs invade her backyard, she finds herself in the middle of a cryptozoological conspiracy.
As their feelings for each other emerge stronger than ever before, the duo must pair Charlotte’s knowledge of the past with Ryan’s expertise in the present to uncover the truth. Encountering unimaginable dangers in their search for clues, will their bond be strong enough to survive the unknown?
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Off the quiet streets of nineteenth-century New Haven, cryptobiologist Ryan Nolan returns home chasing rumors of a dragon—and instead finds murder, missing artifacts, and the woman he never stopped loving. Forced into alliance with paleontologist Charlotte Reid, he uncovers strange neighbors, impossible creatures, and a conspiracy buried deeper than fossils.
A Whisper of Bone is a fast-paced steampunk and gaslamp Victorian fantasy romance featuring second-chance love, dangerous science, gothic mystery, and slow-burn, high-spice tension amid secrets of bone and myth.
ASIN: B0BPZYS5PH
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-37-5
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-57-3
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-39-9
Audiobook Narrators: Janina Edwards, Ryan Stone
Publication date: March 7, 2023
Book 6 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
80K words | 352 pages | 8 hrs and 45 mins
Perfect for readers who enjoy steamy historical Victorian romance with dual POV, steampunk and gaslamp fantasy, and brilliant, determined heroines. This fast-paced romantasy follows a second-chance romance between a daring Mesopotamian scholar and a Queen’s agent as they navigate murder, antiquities smuggling, and mechanical mysteries in nineteenth-century London. Expect sharp wit, slow-burn chemistry, high-stakes adventure, and a love story where the past—and the secrets of a clockwork scarab—could change everything.
Title: FLIGHT OF THE SCARAB
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 7 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A clockwork scarab. A fairy ring. A chance to reignite the past.
When Julia Marston stumbles upon her estranged husband’s lifeless body in a cemetery at dawn, she trips and falls into a fairy ring of softly glowing mushrooms. In the eerie silence, a glinting clockwork scarab takes flight. Has her husband’s dark past as an antiquities smuggler finally caught up to him? Will it shatter her present?
Enter Graham Leyton, a man on a mission to retrieve stolen technology. Equally shocked at her husband’s death, he can’t help but ponder the possibility of a second chance with the woman he never stopped loving. But the crime scene presents a grim revelation. A once mutual friend, now consumed by his obsession with Julia, has reprogrammed the clockwork creature for a sinister purpose: murder.
As the race to capture the clockwork scarab unfolds, the past and present collide in a whirlwind of deceit and longing, hurtling toward a confrontation that will define their future.
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When Julia Marston discovers her estranged husband’s body in a London cemetery at dawn, a clockwork scarab rises into the mist—proof that his dealings in illicit antiquities and stolen technology ran far deeper than she knew. She steps from the fairy ring and finds herself drawn back into the orbit of Graham Leyton, the one man she ever trusted with her heart, as they follow a trail of mechanical clues and uncover the hidden secrets of cemetery mushrooms.
Flight of the Scarab is a fast-paced gaslamp fantasy romance filled with secret societies, forbidden science, second-chance tension, and peril threaded with folklore-touched mystery.
ASIN: B0C6J7PF8H
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-48-1
Hardcover: 978-1-948359-58-0
Publication date: April 9, 2024
Book 7 of 7: Elemental Web Tales
50K words | 164 pages
Title: THE TIN ROSE
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 1 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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An evening escape. A clockwork poison. A race to save a love balanced on the edge.
On the night they were to elope, a spurned lover returned. A gift, she claimed. But the clockwork contraption unwound a poisonous bloom, sending Lady Emily and Luca, her beloved, on a desperate race to reach the cure.
ASIN: B075C5PHP8
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9977475-7-7
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-28-3
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: September 2, 2017
Book 1 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
11K words | 58 pages | 1 hr and 6 mins
Title: KRAKEN AND CANALS
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 2 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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An old love. A giant kraken. A drive into the infested canals of Venice.
Time has run out. Rules must be broken and her patron’s wrath risked. To save the woman who raised her, Lady Judith must visit the underwater grotto of a giant lagoon kraken. Survival isn’t guaranteed, but Arturo will not let his love face the dangers of the canals alone.
ASIN: B07942VJVS
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-00-9
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-29-0
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: January 18, 2018
Book 2 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
12K words | 72 pages | 1 hr and 16 mins
Title: RUST AND STEAM
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 3 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A speeding train. A determined villain. A reconciliation of broken hearts.
Lady Alice Hemsworth wasn’t supposed to fall in love. It was her duty not to. Alas, she’d failed miserably. Mr. Benjamin Leighton—despite being turned away by her steam butler—can’t stop thinking about her. Alone, both are miserable—until a deadly encounter throws them together on the night train to London.
ASIN: B0CFR9LJNC
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-948359-11-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-948359-30-6
Audiobook Narrator: Anais Inara Chase
Publication date: August 14, 2023
Book 3 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
15K words | 78 pages | 1 hr and 31 mins
Title: BLACK SAND AND BLOOD
Author: Anne Renwick
Series: Book 4 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Gaslamp Fantasy
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A secret love. A winter storm. A race against time and tide.
On the black sands of Iceland’s coast, Dýri and Sóllilja brave a winter storm to harvest an elusive cryptid’s scales—raw material for armor like no other. For him, it’s a chance to finally force their long-hidden love into the open. But when an enemy tracks them down, survival—and their hope for their future—will depend on courage, cunning, and a stroke of luck.
ISBN eBook: 978-1-948359-66-5
ISBN paperback: 978-1-948359-67-2
Publication date: January 6, 2026
Book 4 of 4: Elemental Web Stories
15K Words | 82 Pages