The Gilded Gun

Before she was the icy, jilted ex-fiancée in The Chronos Clock, Demetra Ashdown was very much in love with Lord Francis Winterton, who was just as smitten with her. So why did he have to fight so hard to win back her affections three years later? Because of the infamous incident with “the gun”. A half-infernal – one of the races of Aetherals – the hunt for Aetheric artifacts is Demetra’s obsession in life. And Francis is not sure he can accept the dangers inherent in her work, especially when he almost loses his beloved to a family heirloom. This short story prequel offers a peek of a young and carefree Demetra, her engagement to Francis, the event that drove them apart, and one too many avian analogies.