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Some men can’t resist a brainy beauty…and others can’t refuse the best woman for the job.

The Dramok lifted his attention from his handheld to smile a welcome. “Signis went to find a fight ring to vent his frustrations.”

“Interviews didn’t go well?”

Rorix shrugged. “The applicants for the bridge positions were okay. One or two, more than okay. I hired the short-distance and onboard com officer on the spot. He’s a former spyship com officer named Veko. A Nobek but pretty laid back for his breed.” He hesitated and added, “He successfully worked with and trained an Earther female as com officer backup during his last assignment.”

“Sounds like you’re giving Matara Laughter Lorenz a real chance at the long-distance com job.” Negal grinned in delight at the idea of daily encountering the brainy beauty and her insanely gorgeous body.

Rorix’s warmth fled for a warning glare. “Your infatuation is no basis for hiring her for such an important position.”

Negal snorted and shoved the bin against the wall. He tapped the controls, allowing it to settle on the plush wine-colored carpet he’d gotten at half price and installed for free. “If it’s such an important position, then you have to bring her on. I assume you spoke to no one who was even remotely close to possessing her qualifications.”

“They can learn.”

“Rorix, she designed the system. You can’t refuse to hire her for the sole reason you and Signis don’t want an Earther on your bridge crew.”

His Dramok scowled, his gaze drifting to the three holographic documents hovering in a line above his handheld. No doubt they were the resumes of those who’d applied for the job.

Negal walked around the table between them, a gleaming Joshadan handmade piece restored by the clan leader. He sat next to him. “Signis knows she’s the only real choice too, which is why he’s looking for a fight. Rorix, he’ll get over it.”

“I’m not so sure. After those Earthers ambushed him on Dantovon—”

“Laughter Lorenz doesn’t strike me as the type to jump a Nobek twice her size. She isn’t homeless, starving, and desperate. If Signis were honest, he’d admit it was the reason those Earthers went after him. They wanted his stuff, not necessarily to do him serious harm.”

“It wasn’t the only time he’s encountered Earthers with bad intentions.”

“So he was insulted by those Earthtique types a few times. We’ve all been there.” Negal looked Rorix in the eye. “What our fellow Kalquorians did to him, to you, and to me was much worse. We haven’t sworn off our own people because of it.”

“It’s different when it’s your own,” Rorix insisted.

“How?”

“I’m not a philosopher, damn it.” There was no heat in his tone, however. Merely an exasperated acceptance of the inevitable.

It was good enough for Negal. He wondered how he could attract the Lorenz woman for a night of fun once they took off on the expedition.

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Victories against invasion have been won, but the galaxy may be lost in the end. 

Clan Piras has landed on enemy-occupied Jedver to enact a daring rescue of the Galactic Council’s leader. The foursome of Piras, Hope, Lokmi, and Kila have no backup, no allies except those who can be bought, and almost no chance of success. Is this finally the end for the Kalquorian Empire’s celebrated spies? 

There may be no escape from the All’s extermination plans for the dimension. Emperor Clajak has one last card up his sleeve, however: a band of misfit renegade Kalquorians called the Coydidak. Only with their help and an impossible mission to beyond the known reaches of the universe can Kalquor hope to preserve life. 

A determined engineer is at the top of the list of Coydidak leader Dramok Rorix’s least favorite humans. She’ll stop at nothing to board his ship for a one-way voyage that’s to last a lifetime. Is ultimate freedom from the empire worth dealing with the beautiful but unrelenting Laughter Lorenz? 

As the clock ticks to the end of Dr. Cassidy Hamilton’s pregnancy and potentially life in the dimension, she works feverishly to find a way to destroy the All. A visit from an undiscovered entity brings to light her greatest hope and worst fear. Only time will tell if this new being is friend or foe…but Cassidy’s time and that of her soon-to-be-born child is almost up. 

Adventure. Danger. Intrigue. Romance that outburns the sun in any galaxy. It’s all here in the sixth installment of the Dark Empire series.

 

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