Books & Stories

“Teacakes and Kraken Bait”

Novella #1 from The Harrogate Chronicles
by Nan Sampson & Susan Wachowski
Takes place between Book 1 and Book 2

This is now included in the soon to be released 2nd Ed of Atahualpa’s Mummy and no longer available on its own on Kindle.

Miss Kinzalynn Quinn, covert Fae attaché to the British court, tags along when her friend Lady Esme Harrogate is sent by Queen Victoria to deal with the disaster at the Berneray Mining Station. Two submersibles destroyed, their crews lost, and the new automaton created by Professor Hieronymous Burroughs is blamed for the catastrophe. The professor is adamant he can repair his machine, but the head of the mining station wants to blast it from the North Sea. The ladies must stand between them and discover what’s really wrong at the bottom of the briny deep.

Atahualpa’s Mummy
The Harrogate Chronicles Book 1

Kindle Edition
by Nan Sampson & Susan Wachowski

This is 1st Edition and is no longer available on Kindle.
2nd Edition will be released in February 2026.

The world of espionage will never be the same…

Stories have always existed about Atahualpa’s mummy, an ancient Incan artifact that grants invincibility to whatever army possesses it. So when Queen Victoria catches wind that Napoleon III, the French Emperor, is after the mummy, she sends Lady Esme Harrogate, her valued and only woman agent, to find it before anyone else.

But the queen of the fae has her own plans for the mummy, and sends half-human agent, Kinzalynn, on the hunt as well. Kinzalynn must fulfill her mission, but she seeks something she cannot find in the fae world — what it means to be human.

In order to find the mummy, Esme and Kinzalynn must overcome their mutual distrust and work together before the power of Atahualpa’s mummy falls into the hands of those who would destroy them all.

Stranded: A Collection of Stories and Poems from the Writing Journey

Includes the short story “Lady Eve and Adam” and poem “Stranded in Rewinds” by Susan Wachowski

The Writing Journey of Naperville invites you to explore the colorful plots, characters, and settings of Stranded, an Anthology of fantasy, science fiction, romance, humor, horror, mystery, adventure, realism, dystopian, and steampunk. The psychological, emotional, and behavioral impacts of relationships gone bad, of arrested adolescence, of unresolved sibling rivalry, can drive us to search for tiny moments of redemption and escape.