Captain Andrew's Flying Christmas
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Housemaid Linet Fenna would rather be an air pirate than a servant. When she finds the ladder to an airship dangling outside her garret window on Christmas Eve, 1892, she ascends to the skies above London on her late father’s flagship dirigible, the Christmas. The new captain is someone she never expected to see again, a dangerous, sexy foe. Is the Fenna family nemesis offering Linet her heart’s desire or a dastardly trap?
Captain Andrew’s motivations are as foggy as the coal-soaked sky. Prime Minister Gladstone’s Blockaders, a horde of automen and a teenage girl named Hatchet want Linet to fail in her quest to discover what happened to her missing family, but she is determined to have a happy Christmas.
Captain Andrew’s Flying Christmas is a 16,000-word steampunk romance novella.
Heather Hiestand
Heather Hiestand is the author of many novels, novellas and short stories. She lives in Washington with her husband and son.
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Captain Andrew's Flying Christmas - Heather Hiestand
CAPTAIN ANDREW’S FLYING CHRISTMAS
Housemaid Linet Fenna would rather be an air pirate than a servant. When she finds the ladder to an airship dangling outside her garret window on Christmas Eve, 1892, she ascends to the skies above London on her late father’s flagship dirigible, the Christmas. The new captain is someone she never expected to see again, a dangerous, sexy foe. Is the Fenna family nemesis offering Linet her heart’s desire or a dastardly trap?
Captain Andrew’s motivations are as foggy as the coal-soaked sky. Prime Minister Gladstone’s Blockaders, a horde of automen and a teenage girl named Hatchet want Linet to fail in her quest to discover what happened to her missing family, but she is determined to have a happy Christmas.
What others are saying about Captain Andrew’s Flying Christmas
5 Stars! Steampunk adventure at its finest.
- Shoshanna Evers
CAPTAIN ANDREW'S FLYING CHRISTMAS is my favorite type of holiday offering: short, sweet, and noncaloric!
– E.M. Flynn
Captain Andrew’s Flying Christmas
By Heather Hiestand
Copyright Heather Hiestand 2011
Smashwords Edition
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.
CAPTAIN ANDREW’S FLYING CHRISTMAS
COPYRIGHT 2011 by Heather Hiestand
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Publishing History
First Smashwords Edition, 2011
ISBN 978-1-4661-7489-4
Published in the United States of America
DEDICATION
For Andy
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to Viola Estrella, Mary Jo and David Hiestand and Elizabeth Flynn for editing this story. Thank you to Delle Jacobs for the inspirational cover. Thank you to Andy for listening to this story when I first imagined it. Thank you to Leander for the library time.
CHAPTER ONE
London, December 24, 1892
Linet Fenna shivered in her attic bedroom as she stared out the open window. Downstairs, all was merry and bright with evergreen branches, mistletoe and handmade garlands festooning trees and mantles. Under the eaves here, wind blew through a crack in the undecorated wall and rustled in the chimneys above.
A fever had made the first housemaid take to bed just after breakfast and Linet, the second housemaid, had been run ragged all day by her demanding mistress and her ever-arriving family. Now, finally done with work, she just wanted to stare at the stars and dream.
Close the window,
Ann-Marie said, coughing from her iron bedstead in the darkest corner of the room.
In a minute.
Linet took one last breath of chilly air and had her hand on the sill when she heard a metallic chugging in the distance. The sound came from outside, and wasn’t likely to be Father Christmas.
The automen who secured England for Prime Minister Gladstone had yet to master the skies. Linet had once known the world above the streets well, as daughter of the famed smuggler Rhys Fenna. Some had called him a sky pirate, and his neck had been broken on a gibbet three Boxing Days ago. She had become a maid of all work to support herself in the aftermath of his death. This position in a larger home had seemed a blessing at first until she realized she’d moved into a house owned by an automen manufacturer. The factory, only steps away, belched smoke and steam into the air at all hours, and it kept the brass fist of authority ever alive in her mind.
As Ann-Marie coughed behind her, Linet pulled at the tight high collar of her black dress and leaned forward into the open window, looking for the source of the sound. She darted back a step instinctively when something pinged against the glass above her head. A bird? Surely none were about at this late hour.
When she looked up, the astonishing sight took her back three years. No wonder she’d heard chugging. A ladder?
she whispered.
What?
Ann-Marie croaked.
Nothing, go to sleep.
Linet hurried to the washstand by the sick girl’s bed and blew out the