Nick Valentino

Nick Valentino's steampunk adventure novel, Thomas Riley is the first in a series of alternative history books about two Victorian-era weapons designers that are forced into enemy lands to undo an alchemic mishap. The Second installment of the series, Thomas Riley~ The Olympus, is due out the first quarter of 2011. Valentino's Weird West story, Engine 316 is included in the Dreams of Steam anthology and his story Double Crossed at Gray Raven Mill is included in Steampunk Tales.

Steampunk Books

Thomas Riley, Amidst of a twenty year war, weapons designer Thomas Riley is thrust onto the front lines when a risky alchemic experiment goes wrong, embedding a foreign soul into his wily assistant Cynthia Basset.  Thomas and Cynthia are forced to join with murderous sky pirates in a deadly race to capture the only man that can undo the botched alchemy, their enemy counterpart weapons maker.