New Books Coming Soon
Black Iron
By Franklin Veaux (Steampunk, Alternate History)
It's 1885, but not as we know it. Queen Victoria doesn't exist, the British Empire never happened, and the British don't drink tea.
The schism between the One True French Catholic Church and the heretical Italian Catholic Church has stoked three centuries of conflict, imploding the dream of European ascendancy. Thousands flee the Spanish Inquisition for havens in Germany, France, Britain and the colonies of the New World.
Into this world falls Thaddeus Mudstone Ahmed Alexander Pinkerton, a small-time petty thief who has just stolen from the airship of Her Majesty Queen Margaret, and finds himself in the middle of a murderous plot with far-reaching implications. The fate of this world lies, as it often does, in the hands of a motley and disparate crew brought together by inglorious serendipity.
Second Edition Coming June 2024
London Under Veil
By Eunice Hung and Franklin Veaux (Urban Fantasy)
When May, a 20something web programmer at a small hosting company in Shoreditch, narrowly avoids not one but two kidnapping attempts in broad daylight, she finds herself drawn into a secret underground London, a place where magic is real. Drawn against her will into a long-simmering covert war between a guild of spellcasting sex workers and a society of Tory rage mages, May must adapt, and quickly, or become a casualty of that war.
As the newest member of the Guild, she scrambles to learn the magical talents she will need to protect herself, aided by Iris, the Guild's resident spell engineer, and Lillian, a mathematician turned student sorcerer.
Imagine Harry Potter meets The Matrix by way of Tom Clancy, only sexier, and you'll have the right idea.
Coming August 2024
Unyielding Devotion
By Eunice Hung and Franklin Veaux (Science Fiction, Erotica)
The fourth novel in the Passionate Pantheon universe.
Kaytin, new to a City she never even dreamed existed and still finding her way, accepts an invitation to a party hosted by an enigmatic woman. Her experiences change everything. Drawn into the City’s underworld of zero-gravity gladiators and Temple politics, she soon finds her new circle of friends offers her the key to a world she never imagined.
Tsimbar, a young novice of the Quickener beginning his life at the Temple, agrees to act as the Temple’s representative at another party, and meets someone who will turn his life upside down.
Royat, adrift without purpose or direction, volunteers as entertainment at a party, an experience that makes him question everything he thought he knew, and prods him to volunteer as Sacrifice to the Ostiary, the AI god of change.
Kaytin, Tsimbar, and Royat find their lives in disarray in the turbulent wake of the mysterious Jakalva, an inscrutable power broker whose parties shake up the lives of all they touch.
Welcome to the City, the far-future, post-scarcity world where the people worship AI gods of unimaginable power through rituals of sex and connection. When the gods involve themselves in mortal lives, things get strange…and a little frightening.
Coming October 2024
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immechanica
By e. f. coleman (Post-cyberpunk)
Los Angeles, 2054. Ubiquitous surveillance, armed autonomous drones, and defense contractors with unparalleled power. Nadine, a failed actress struggling to survive, meets the wrong person at an underground rave and finds herself dragged into a shadowy underworld in this re-imagining of the cyberpunk genre.
Critics call it “an electrifying sci-fi cyberpunk thriller that asks the question, ‘what is humanity and where is it going?’”
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The Brazen Altar
By Eunice Hung & Franklin Veaux (Science Fiction, Erotica)
Book One of the Passionate Pantheon series
The book so sexy, it was banned from Amazon!
In the far future utopia of the City, a world with no war, scarcity, or disease, distant but benevolent AIs rule as gods.
When you can call up anything you want from Providers, how do you develop meaning in your life? In a culture where sex, pleasure and service are the highest good, three women choose to sacrifice themselves to become avatars of their gods.
Kheema dedicates 18 months to train and learn hoping to become the Sacrifice to the Sun God. She dreams of reciting the history of the City, bound atop the great ziggurat of the Fiery One enduring continual forced orgasms. Terlyn gives herself to the Quickener. For nine months she sleeps in the Garden, bound by vines whose thorns both nourish and sedate her, repeatedly called to brief wakefulness by orgasm. Worshippers seek the deity’s blessing through Terlyn’s body. For Ashi, service to the Wild means surrendering herself in a forest that appears overnight. She seeks to be Sacrifice in a ritual involving her bound body, an altar, and cages full of fellow worshippers. She is encouraged by her lover Riyan, who mischievously proposes using a drug that allows each of them to feel whatever the other feels during the ritual.
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Divine Burdens
By Eunice Hung & Franklin Veaux (Science Fiction, Erotica, Erotic Horror)
Book Two of the Passionate Pantheon series
In the far future utopia of the City, a world with no war, scarcity, or disease, distant but benevolent AIs rule as gods.
Welcome to the City, a technologically advanced, post-scarcity Utopia with no disease, no war, and no want. People worship their AI gods through ritualized sex, and in return, the gods provide anything anyone could ever want.
But in this City, the gods demand a price for their benevolence. They use and misuse their devotees for their own ends, for in a place with no money and where possessions have no value, the only thing citizens can bargain with is their bodies.
Three very different women embark on three separate, harrowing but deeply erotic paths to become the Sacrifice to, and representative of, their gods. Each of these women will be forever altered by their experiences.
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The Hallowed Covenant
By Eunice Hung & Franklin Veaux (Science Fiction, Erotica)
Book Three of the Passionate Pantheon series
Be careful what you wish for! An eight-hour orgasm? What should be divine becomes an exquisitely agonizing ordeal for Tessia, who makes the ultimate quivering sacrifice to the god called the Blesser; but for Avia, who takes Tessia’s place when she’s unable to live up to her commitment to the god, it’s a revelation as well as an act of devotion. For Sayi, leader of the Confessory, her lot is to accept the erotic penalties due for others’ transgressions and offer them a path to atonement; while Yaeris, whose impulsive decision to participate in the Dance of Sacrifice to the Lady of Arts, faces sensual consequences she couldn’t possibly have anticipated.
Welcome to the City, a post-scarcity society without war or disease, ruled by benevolent AIs who are worshipped through rituals of sex and connection.
The lives of four women are wrapped intimately around each other, in a complex story of transgression, atonement, forgiveness, and creation.
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Ecstatic Communion:
Stories from the Passionate Pantheon
By Eunice Hung & Franklin Veaux (Science Fiction, Erotica)
In this collection of erotic short stories from the City, re-discover the characters from The Brazen Altar and Divine Burdens.
Set fourteen years after the first book and one year after the second, this collection of short stories revisits the lives of some of your favorite characters from the first two Passionate Pantheon novels. In these five stories of love, loss, heartbreak, change, and renewal, you can explore the City again from a different point of view. These quiet tales of tragedy and triumph offer a new perspective on the first two novels.
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