I invite you to take a trip into where steamships, clockwork and steampunk are king. Within these pages are stories that will take you beyond the reality as we know it. So join us and step into the world of Valves & Vixens...A Race and a Rescue - Katherine EvansReihani is a fearless airship pilot that believes there is no obstacle or challenge she can't overcome. So when her cousins kidnap her lover and then challenge her to an airship race to get him back, she agrees. And while she has complete faith in her abilities as a pilot, her cousins have never been known to play fair. With Tieko's freedom on the line, she knows she'll have to keep one step ahead of them or lose her lover forever.Washing Away - SS Hampton, Sr.December 31, 1900, New Year's Eve. A murder of a prominent British politician, an Opportunistic computer technology entrepreneur in a seedy hotel in Washington, D.C. Is the murder nothing more than a sleazy robbery, maybe industrial espionage, or perhaps reveng...