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Valentine Trail – Flight Of The Clockwork Angels by Tris Merlin

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Hi – I’m Tris Merlin – UK writer of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Romance.

For Valentine’s Day I have a new steampunk short story, Flight of the Clockwork Angels with cover art by the fabulous Reese Dante.

Once Yvo are Tielo were lovers…

“We'd lived in the Age of Discovery. The Age of Steam. Now we faced each other two centuries away from our younger twenty-one-year old selves, scions of rival houses, who had dared to fall in love.”

Tielo is a gentleman artificer, an artist, sculptor and inventor. Yvo is an assassin. Forced into a political marriage to end a feud, he falls in love with Tielo, his bride’s brother. It’s never going to end well.

Tielo dreams of a future where they can be together…

“I wish we could just grow wings and fly away.”
But Yvo is tied to the Steel City by bonds he can’t escape.

* * * * *

“We had thought ourselves safe. We'd found a refuge from the world. A room filled with cushions and a single bed that was never too small for the two of us where the sunlight played across the floor and we shared kisses, wine, and love. The tower—close to the city walls—looked out across the empty plains to the known boundaries of the empire and the wild lands that lay beyond.

I remember Tielo holding me one night when the moon was setting—some hours before the dawn when we knew we'd both have to return to our real lives. I stood in his arms, naked, warmed by his touch and the flame that burned within us.

He was excited, flushed and not only from the wine. He kissed me and then said, “If I could ‘take you away from all this' would you come?”

It was a crazy question and he knew it. There was no escape from the steel city. If we fled to the wild lands we would die.

“I hear tell there's a colony,” he said. “Several days out. Real people. No constructs.”

“Squalor, disease, and death,” I said. “No enhancements. No factories. No repairs.”

“Freedom,” he said.

“You always were an idealist. They'd send the hounds.”

“And you think we couldn't outrun them?”

“No one ever has.”

* * * * *

Can there be a happy ending in their future or are Yvo and Tielo doomed to meet forever across the centuries until finally Yvo’s clockwork heart runs down? 

Flight of the Clockwork Angels is available from Silver Publishing | Amazon 

Competition

And what is Valentine’s day without a gift or two? For a chance to win an e book of Flight of the Clockwork Angels please leave a comment below.

Both Yvo and Tielo could use a little love.

Tris Merlin

http://trismerlin18.blogspot.co.uk/

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. JDKlaus says

    February 13, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    Everyone wants a little lovin on Valentines. I know I do!

    Reply
  2. Alishea Durham says

    February 13, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    Sounds interesting. Please put me in for the drawing.

    Reply
  3. Ashley E says

    February 13, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    I'm up for giving those boys some loving. 🙂

    ashley.vanburen[at]gmail[dot]com

    Reply
  4. ShirleyAnn says

    February 13, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    Yes I can definitely I can give the boys some lovin'!!!

    ShirleyAnn@speakman40.freeserve.co.uk

    Reply
  5. Tracy George says

    February 13, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    Sounds like a great book

    Reply
  6. Debby says

    February 13, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    I love steampunk and yet I do not seem to read many of them Thanks.
    debby236 at gmail dot com

    Reply
  7. Lee Todd says

    February 13, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    thanks for the chance

    Reply
  8. Tris Merlin says

    February 13, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    You are all very lovely. Look out for the draw tomorrow. 18.00 GMT

    Tris x

    Reply
  9. Susan says

    February 13, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    I confess to a real fondness for steampunk, especially mm steampunk!

    skadlec1@yahoo.com

    Reply
  10. Deb :o) says

    February 14, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    Sounds like a good read. Please put me in for the contest.

    Deborah H
    Deborahhansen52@yahoo.com

    Reply
  11. Tris Merlin says

    February 14, 2014 at 6:25 pm

    Ok – it's 18.23 GMT and you're all winners in my book 🙂 The contest is now closed. Those of you who posted your email look out for a message from me – and if you didn't please drop me a line at TrisMerlin18@gmail.com x

    Reply

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