num_pages: 42
description: Eighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered dogless sled in a race intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold her late father's alchemical masterpiece. With her modified rifle and a pocketful of home-made smoke bombs Kali wouldn't normally hide from a confrontation but taking on a whole airship single-handedly is a daunting task. Unfortunately the other racers won't assist her--they're too busy scheming ways to sabotage her unorthodox sled.When a sword-slinging stranger shows up wanting to hire on as her protector she's sure he has ulterior motives but he's the only one interested in helping her. The question is...why?Details: an 18000-word (75 page) steampunk novella set in the Yukon during the gold rush era.
language: English
title: Flash Gold
publisher: Lindsay Buroker