Shadows & Steam
Love blooms in the shadows.
From cobblestoned streets to a haunted mansion, a scientist's lab to an academy library, manners and magic entwine in this gaslamp fantasy romance anthology.
Shadows and Steam contains four stories by up-and-coming authors full of inescapable tension. Each story features characters bound together as they contend with class differences, criminal underworlds, ghostly threats, grave robbing, and their own reluctant hearts.
If you love determined heroines, forced-proximity that gets spicy, and magical worlds with a hint of the past, grab your copy of Shadows and Steam!
Rowan MacKay was raised on a diet of fantasy novels and Scottish castles, leading to a lifelong enthusiasm for all things old and enchanted, so it’s little surprise she ended up writing gaslamp fantasy romance.
She writes angsty, enemies-to-lovers books about stabby women and the tormented men who accidentally fall in love with them. Her stories blend historical inspiration with fantasy to create immersive settings filled with high-stakes political intrigue and dangerous fae courts.
When she’s not writing, Rowan channels her passion for history and magic into sewing Victorian skirts and witchy capes, all the better to maunder around the moors pretending she’s just stepped out of Faerie.