Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Victoria Eternal
    Victoria Eternal
    Victoria Eternal
    Ebook23 pages16 minutes

    Victoria Eternal

    By Anthea Sharp

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Steampunk with an intergalactic twist! Enter a fantastical world filled with alien spacecraft and Victorian sensibilities, formal balls and travel to the stars.

    The British Empire spans the galaxy, but the empire is shaken when an ambassador's daughter and a man with a dangerous secret make a perilous discovery~

    Victoria Eternal is a *short story* of approximately 25 pages from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Lawson Sharp.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFiddlehead Press
    Release dateOct 4, 2016
    ISBN9781680131000
    Victoria Eternal
    Author

    Anthea Sharp

    ~ Award-winning author of YA Urban Fantasy ~Growing up, Anthea Sharp spent her summers raiding the library shelves and reading, especially fantasy. She now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest, where she writes, plays the fiddle, and spends time with her small-but-good family. Contact her at antheasharp@hotmail.com, follow her on twitter, find her on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AntheaSharp), and visit her website.

    Read more from Anthea Sharp

    Related to Victoria Eternal

    Related ebooks

    Alternative History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Short Slice Of Fantasy

      Apr 7, 2022

      A Short Slice Of Fantasy
      6 min read

    • Article

      Illusion

      May 22, 2019

      Illusion
      2 min read

    • Article

      Yara And The Witch Queen

      Oct 1, 2019

      I knew the dangers of witchcraft. My parents had told me about the time before I was born, when magic plagued our desert kingdom of Bahati. Untrained witch doctors trying to cure warts ended up paralyzing their patients or turning them into crocodile

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea

      Feb 23, 2022

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Axie Oh Publisher Hodder & Stoughton The Korean tradition of telling folk stories goes back thousands of years. One well-known story, “The Tale Of Shim Cheong”, centres on the sacrificial

      1 min read

    • Article

      Elsi, The Strange Maid

      Aug 29, 2018

      Elsi, The Strange Maid
      17 min read

    • Article

      The Witch Finders

      Jul 16, 2020

      Beth pulled her cloak tightly around her. It was the very last day of October and the air was damp and chill. Dead autumn leaves lay in deep piles in the woods and smoke curled into the night air from her cottage. Not far to go now. She bent her head

      4 min read

    • Article

      Paper Princess

      Apr 1, 2023

      Paper Princess
      3 min read

    • Article

      Power Of Three

      Sep 11, 2019

      Power Of Three
      2 min read

    • Article

      Home to ROOST

      Jan 11, 2022

      Home to ROOST
      11 min read

    • Article

      Scoundrel’s Lair

      Jul 9, 2023

      Scoundrel’s Lair
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Little Trip

      Aug 2, 2021

      As the first morning light peeked through the gap in the curtains, Alice left her new husband in bed. She wrapped her silk kimono around her; a present from Jeremy, it reminded her yet again just how generous he’d been since their wedding. Even this

      5 min read

    • Article

      Quotients

      May 7, 2020

      Quotients
      8 min read

    • Article

      Four Of A Kind

      May 3, 2023

      Four Of A Kind
      4 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Bargain

      Dec 10, 2022

      “Which one of you owns G2V3889?” Cygnus glided through a luminescent star field suspended in the center of an otherwise dark, oblong studio, then turned in a slow circle to survey the twenty Agents surrounding him. “Come on, speak up.” Vega shuddered

      16 min read

    • Article

      Magnets: Carried through time, lovers seek their purpose.

      Feb 6, 2014

      Moon Colony B, 2213 Former Ponzi-schemer Mary Pillar digs through a trashcan. It smells like rotten eggs and milk. She is elderly and homeless, living in an alley between two eco-efficient skyscrapers. Dust particles dance around her. She has lost ev

      11 min read

    • Article

      The Trouble Gene

      Jul 1, 2020

      One clear thing about trouble—it can set you back to zero, a personal cone of silence. And reading, writing, listening allow entry into that troubled solitude; you disappear into it regardless t of the time or place you really are in, be it bed, kitc

      12 min read

    • Article

      All Atsea!

      Nov 23, 2021

      All Atsea!
      6 min read

    • Article

      Beyond the Mangrove Trees

      Aug 6, 2020

      No one expects their house to float away. Ethel certainly hadn’t. Our story begins in the sleepy village of Greenwood, where Ethel had spent her entire life. It was an overcast Sunday afternoon and Ethel watched the rain lash against the window from

      7 min read

    • Article

      Hello, Grim Reaper

      Dec 15, 2021

      She was a babe. A fully paid-up, card-carrying babe. There was absolutely no doubt about it, and she was heading straight for me. She was almost sprinting towards me across the recently reimagined lobby of Claridge’s. She looked up, her scarlet-anoin

      3 min read

    • Article

      Mrs Simpson Learns A Lesson

      Jul 29, 2021

      Mrs Simpson Learns A Lesson
      4 min read

    • Article

      On Good Authority

      May 10, 2022

      Eufala, Alabama 02/19/2053 “Dr. Totter, may I speak with you about the security measures for your trip?” Zane, bearded, muscular, was poised and looming over her, and she fought the urge to take a step backward. Vivian Totter looked over her shoulder

      25 min read

    • Article

      The Actuarian

      Apr 1, 2019

      The Actuarian
      7 min read

    • Article

      Past Imperfect

      Sep 2, 2023

      Past Imperfect
      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Victoria Eternal

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Victoria Eternal - Anthea Sharp

      Table of Contents

      Victoria Eternal

      VicToria eTerNal

      A space RegencY

      Anthea L Sharp

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons is purely coincidental.

      Copyright 2015 Anthea L. Sharp. All rights reserved. This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away. Support independent authors - read legally. To obtain permission to excerpt portions of the text, other than for review purposes, contact antheasharp@hotmail.com. Print copies available at most vendors. Visit the author at www.antheasharp.com and sign up for notifications of new releases at http://eepurl.com/1qtFb

      QUALITY CONTROL: If you encounter any typos or formatting problems, please contact antheasharp@hotmail.com so they may be corrected.

      The British Empire spans the galaxy, but one ambassador's daughter and a man with a dangerous secret make a universe-changing discovery~

      In the 14th reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire stretched from Earth to the Rings of Epsilon, and beyond. Even a tiny moon like Wendover was not immune to the spread of empire—not when its lush jungles held treasures beyond imagination.

      Or might, at any rate. Jessamyn Pershing was not so sure.

      She rested her chin in her gloved hand and squinted out the plas-glass window at the dense foliage outside. An odd violet light lay over everything—the dimness that passed for night here on Wendover. She wished

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1