{"product_id":"2940158268540","title":"The Not-So-Innocents Abroad","description":"\"Roland Yeomans is funny, charismatic and fun to read...I really like that. I still have yet to read a steampunk novel because most times they don't fit in with the paranormal genre that I read most these days. But...a steampunk with vampires? Did I read that right? Great idea.\" – Mary Kirkland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roland's book sounds fascinating! I cannot wait to read it :) \" - Lori Carlson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roland is awesome! I really enjoy his blog, WRITING IN THE CROSSHAIRS, and I'm looking forward to reading THE NOT-SO-INNOCENTS ABROAD.\" - J. H. Moncrieff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1867 in an America a layer of existence from this one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Sherman was denied his march through Georgia by forces beyond his ken. Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated though he wishes he had been killed instead of his beloved Mary. The battered Indian tribes of America have a strange refuge courtesy of the cursed Texas Ranger, Captain Samuel McCord.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA global war of vampire kingdoms is going on beneath the noses of the living world -- and it is interfering with the honeymoon of the alien empress, Meilori Shinseen. She ruled the Aztecs when a political execution took place on Golgotha. Meilori commissioned the Sphinx to take her mind off repairing her star-craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe warring vampire rulers have mistaken her boredom with ruling the nations of Man as weakness. They have made a grave error, emphasis on the word \"grave.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is a not-quite-mortal groom to do? Survive as best he can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVampires, Vengeful Spirits of the Earth, Aliens Among Us, and a Man with the Blood of Death in his Veins trying to keep it from being spilled before his honeymoon is over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCome join the maiden voyage of the first Air\/Steamship, the Xanadu, where murder, intrigue, and betrayal reign supreme ... and that is just in the newlywed's bedroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoining the newlyweds are Mark Twain, 11 year old Nikola Tesla, his faithful black cat, Macak, Horace Greely, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron, and the mysterious Greek physician, Lucanus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLurking in the shadows, hoping to kill them is the insane Abraham Lincoln, the crippled General Sherman, the vampires, Abigail Adams and Benjamin Franklin, Empress Theodora, ruler of the Unholy Roman Empire, and the vengeful Captain Nemo, following in his Nautilus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteampunk intrigue and adventure was never so much fun.","brand":"Roland Yeomans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076677288176,"sku":"2940158268540","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158268540_p0.jpg?v=1764111104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158268540","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}