Steve Turnbull

Discover the steampunk adventures of Anglo-Indian amateur sleuth, Maliha Anderson. Follow her seven adventures in a time that never was-plus an extra story about her friend and mentor.

Prophecy will sacrifice anyone, even a child. Lady Elona of Faerholme finds herself the target of a prophecy that predicts she will defeat an invading army. But that's impossible: she's just a girl! Her betrothal to a Prince solves the paradox: she can produce an heir to fight the prophesied war...

1908. A gruesome death. An airship full of suspects. Maliha Anderson prefers to be alone, even on the long journey back to India. Unfortunately one of her fellow passengers is a murderer. She should stay out of the death of the General's nurse, but Maliha cannot leave a mystery alone. Besides...

What value is freedom when you can’t even ride a dragon? As the life of a slave goes, Kantees doesn't have it too bad. Being responsible for a racing dragon means her existence is more than just drudgery and fear, even if her life is at the whim of her masters and their rules. But when her...

When your path is uncertain, it's better to be riding a dragon. As Kantees tries to build an army against her enemy, trouble strikes at her from every side, and it seems she's doing it to herself....

Looking after dragons is easy, but when you steal one things get harder....

The story of a teenage girl who's turning into a monster—literally. Chloe Dark is an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world. But when her closest friend is kidnapped and the police seem powerless to help, she sets out to find her alone. But things are not what they seem and in this dystopian...

Once she was the keeper of a dragon, but then she stole it. As a runaway slave, Kantees isn't safe anywhere—but the need to find out who'd pursuing her, and why, drives her back to her first master. But when he is unable to give her the answers she needs, and with death at every turn, she has...

What value is freedom when you can’t even ride a dragon? As the life of a slave goes, Kantees doesn't have it too bad. Being responsible for a racing dragon means her existence is more than just drudgery and fear, even if her life is at the whim of her masters and their rules. But when her...

In the end, all prophecy is a lie. Only one solution remains for Elona, despite her desire to run away from it all. She must find the creature that has destroyed her life and wants to wipe out her people, and confront it. Whatever the cost to her own life. This is the fourth and final book in...

What if home became a place of dread? Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's worse than she expects. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman in front of a family wedding party.

Prophecy does not care who you are. Life at Corlain Castle has not improved for Elona since her return, and when Jaymis suggests they go on a Grand Tour, she agrees just to get away. Together, she and Jaymis seek some sort of peace, but powerful and ancient forces are rising. But their arrival...

Missing babies in Johannesburg, and nobody cares. Maliha Anderson and her entourage travel to South Africa to return Riette's baby to the father's family on what should be a simple mission of mercy. But they are soon embroiled in race politics and something even darker: Children are disappearing...

Boarding school can be hell — sometimes it can be MURDER So far from her home in India, Maliha Anderson did not enjoy life in her British boarding school, but discovering the school bully murdered certainly made it more interesting. And when the police chose the wrong person as the most likely...

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up. Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one. How can she possibly defeat a man with so much power he can make an honest man kill.

Prophecy does not care what you do Elona's pyrrhic victory at the Fastness is soon overwhelmed by new troubles when she discovers the secrets of the Slissac are about to be revealed. And without Jaymis's support she's now alone in a world that doesn't understand the danger it's in. Then the...