A collection of five short Steampunk stories, all connected but each story a different genre - Paranormal, Mystery, Western, Fantasy and Horror.Miss Anise Buttersby is a 19th C newsreporter and a girl in a world of women wearing Victorian dresses, who DETESTS dresses and instead wears {gasp} pants, and vests! She goes on a cross country adventure with all the regular steampunk stuff thrown in: airships, rayguns, hot air balloons, floating lost continents, strange steam powered contraptions, metal men/automatons/robots, mechanical animals, (and even zombies!) - all in an era still with gaslamps and horse and carriages!