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Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father's) and heads east for the Wild West.

She finds it in spades in the Texas Big Bend when she is kidnapped from a mule train by Comanches and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are distracted by a... dragon?

Fort Draco, as the comanchero fort is known, is as full of intrigue and nighttime carryings-on as a modern day romantic novel, but Frank Drake, the owner, is no hero. If Valentine wants to save herself and the less-guilty if not entirely innocent folks who live there, she must defeat heat stroke, gunslingers, a couple of fake rainmakers and their camel, hostile Indians, the voice haunting her dreams (not in a good way) and a dragon who not only is gobbling all the livestock and transportation in the area but is guarding the only water hole in fifty miles of drought-ridden desert. And she must do it all while taking good notes, of course.

This is a western but not as we know it and a fantasy set where we're not used to it.

THE MYSTERY OF THE KLONDIKE COUNT

Valentine Lovelace loves nothing more than a good adventure. so when her poor, dearly-departed daddy's ex-mistress invites her on a journey to the Yukon at the peak of Gold Fever, she jumps at the opportunity. Val is sure she'll find a mother-lode of great stories just waiting to be told and quite a few interesting people along the way...

In fact it's not long before she finds both in Vasily Vladovitch Bledinoff. He's distinguished, educated, incredibly suave - and he's a vampire! Val finds herself up to her neck in trouble - literally. Now, to top it off, Bledinoff wants to make her a member of his clan... and the trouble is that the nights go on for months this far north!