CONTACT You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.C.S. For a glimpse into her everyday and professional, visit Muse & Newsor follow her on Facebook. A veteran professional performer, she now pours her artistic passion into her writing. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metal-and not a penny to their names. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. With Darcy twins Jules and Simon poised for their own adventures, Ciotta (the Cupcake Club books) has the start of a delectable series. Beth lives in New Jersey, USA with her husband, two zany dogs, and a crazy cat. Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well.

The two pursue an airborne quest for Leonardo da Vinci's fabled ornithopter while fending off sky pirates employed by dastardly and lascivious Lord Bingham, cavorting through a hectic skytown pubcrawl, and putting lovemaking at the top of Amelia's 'must-do-or-die' list. But her quest is altered when her kitecycle crashes into the air ship of exAir Marshaland scandalous dime novel heroTucker Gentry.Challenged by political unrest, a devious sky pirate, and their own sizzling attraction, Amelia and Tuck are dragged into an international conspiracy that could change the course of historyagain. She promptly crashes into an encounter with Tucker. This is a must read for anyone who loves. PRAISE FOR HER SKY COWBOY Beth Ciotta's Her Sky Cowboy is pure charm. Spunky airship mechanic Amelia Darcy is smitten with an obsession for flight and a longtime yen for Tucker Gentry, the Sky Cowboy, an American penny-dreadful antihero of 'notorious and scandalous reputation.' After Amelia's father blows himself and the family fortune to smithereens while attempting to travel to the moon, Amelia abandons her tizzied mother, leaps upon her homemade kitecycle, and tears off to win a hefty scientific prize. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. The Glorious Victorious Darcys Beth Ciotta.

Contemporary romance author Ciotta's first steampunk series blasts off with this exhilarating riff on bodice-ripping romance, hurling 20th-century technology into an alternate Victorian England.

Her Sky Cowboy by Beth Ciotta