Now on sale at Amazon, Amazon UK, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords and in print.
Disaster strikes Clan Tumsa...again
Doljen’s steps slowed as he came within sight of Berth 615 and the massive Earther transport docked in it. In contrast, his heart went into overdrive as he drew close to seeing Bernadette, Tumsa, and Halmiko.
He was perhaps fifty yards distant when he heard a muffled boom. The rear section of the ship visibly twitched. Smoke began to issue from it.
Figures beneath the vessel were lifting hover stretchers into the air with people on them. They raced off with their patients, startled cries trailing them.
Anxiety fled, and Doljen shot forward to catch a glimpse of the Kalquorian men on the stretchers. When he saw neither were Tumsa or Halmiko, he diverted to the ship ahead of security personnel, who ran shouting toward it too.
He’d served on board spyships during the two recent wars Kalquor had fought. He recognized an explosion when he heard it, and it called to his instincts as a doctor with an emergency on his hands. He raced onto the craft without a second thought.
He didn’t recognize the carrier’s configuration, but it was easy enough to follow the smoke and panicked yells down the corridor toward the ship’s stern. He recognized two voices, and he ran faster. He ignored his diminished vision, brought about by the billowing gray cloud filling the hall. It burned his lungs.
“Bernadette!” he shouted. “I’m coming!”
He nearly ran into a wall that came out of nowhere. There was a doorway next to it, where the already thinning smoke was eddying from. The hiss of fire retardant and Bernadette and Tumsa’s cries filled his ears. He headed to the indistinct forms struggling to lift components off the floor.
Doljen could have cried with relief to see Bernadette unharmed. Next to her, Tumsa raised a shocked gaze to his.
“Halmiko’s under here!” he shouted. “And Kom!”
She searched for the man she couldn’t forget and found a shattered clan she couldn’t resist.
Captain Bernadette Miller was a nun on the moon Europa, hiding from a painful past. Now she hunts the galaxy for the Kalquorian who made her stop running from herself. When she gets a lead on his clanmates, she thinks her search is finally over. What she finds, however, is a clan devastated by broken promises.
Nobek Halmiko was once a star kurble player. Now he wanders space aimlessly, picking up jobs where he can find them, trying to forget the clanmates he let down. When Bernadette shows up asking questions about his missing Imdiko, he has nothing to say. But some women get in a man’s head. Some women don’t take no for an answer.
Dramok Tumsa had it all: a career he loved, the perfect clan, a troubled but talented brother he’d do anything for. Tragedy on the kurble field destroyed it all. Now his estranged Nobek is back, with a beautiful, hardnosed Earther captain who offers him an opportunity to make amends. Can he piece his clan together again? Does he deserve the chance?
Imdiko Doljen is wracked by guilt. He’s hidden from those he let down…including a woman he couldn’t keep. When she shows up in the company of his clanmates, old hurts ignite anew. It doesn’t matter what he wants; he can’t fix the mistakes he made.
The only path to regaining the love Bernadette lost means
healing this shattered clan. Is she ready to commit to three men instead of the
one she came for? When disaster strikes, she has to call on all the strength
she possesses to stop them from falling apart for good.
No comments:
Post a Comment