Lost Station Circé

 
Thomas Wrightson
Book Cover: Lost Station Circé
Part of the The Cluster Cycle series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover

A Voyage For Fortune Leads Them to the Heart of Fear.

In the desolate reaches of the Cluster, aboard the weary cargo ship Benbow, a disparate crew drifts through an meager existence. Among them are the brooding Captain Solet, the smirking Syndac, amiable Sudu, ambitious Alkmeney, enigmatic Livesey, and Lenore and Faarax, a Feles and her human ward sworn to kill each other.

Their monotonous routine is shattered when fate delivers to them a mysterious datacube containing the coordinates to a hidden fortune. Igniting a covert mission to investigate, the crew embarks on a perilous journey to the very edge of the galaxy, where an ancient space habitat holds the promise of unimaginable wealth.

However, as they venture beyond the boundaries of known space, they encounter not only the treachery of rival factions but also startling revelations about their own pasts. Facing both their deepest fears and darkest desires, the crew of the Benbow must come together to unravel the mystery of the ancient space habitat before it consumes them all.

Following in the tradition of sci-fi luminaries like Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick, Thomas Wrightson walks the fine line between space opera and horror with authority. Strap in tight, Lost Station Circé is a thrill-a-minute voyage into the depths of space and terror the likes of which you won't soon forget.

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Publisher: Dragonbrae

About the Author

Thomas Wrightson

Born in 1994, Thomas Wrightson has spent much of his life creating narratives and characters. Home schooled, he currently lives on the island Ynys Mon in Wales, surrounded by beautiful scenery and unpredictable weather.

Other Books By Thomas Wrightson

Series: The Cluster Cycle

The Phoenix Effect Part 2

 

Regeneration

Margaret M. MacDonald
Book Cover: The Phoenix Effect Part 2
Part of the The Phoenix Effect series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover

Rise Up From the Ashes

Lia is no longer the frail mortal she once was. Her newfound strength, however, came at a devastating price-Arin's life... or so she believes. Still grappling with Roland's treachery, Lia discovers she is pregnant, destined to bear the first of a new generation endowed with superhuman healing abilities.

Meanwhile, Roland leads his armies on a relentless campaign across the Borderlands, defeating all before him and igniting fears within the Unity of a rising Resistance. Returning after months on the march to the blessing of Lia's pregnancy, he attempts to make peace with his wife, spurring a tentative reconciliation between them. Hidden in the shadows, though, a mysterious prisoner grows stronger. Arin's miraculous survival from a gunshot to the brain is a riddle only Harris can unravel, as the rest of the world believes Arin to be dead. Harris attempts to manipulate his hostage by revealing Lia's supposed loyalty to Roland. Bereft of hope for the woman he loves, Arin's only answer is a daring escape into the wilderness of the Unclaimed Territories.

When an enemy from Roland's past strikes at the very heart of Cambria, the world teeters on the brink of war. Caught in this storm of conflict, Lia and Arin's paths are destined to cross again.

Will they meet as allies or enemies?

About the Author

Margaret M. MacDonald

Writer and Filmmaker Margaret M. MacDonald is passionate about telling stories which transport people into other worlds and make this one a little more extraordinary. Her visual writing style, shaped by her background as a designer, conveys a tangible sense of place, inviting readers into the story world. Born and raised in the United States and currently living in Australia, Margaret likes to bring a mix of both cultures into her work. She has written a library of screenplays and novels in a mix of genres, has directed several short films, and has been lucky enough to win a few awards along the way. She enjoys embracing a creative challenge and wants, more than anything else, to tell a story audiences will love.

Other Books By Margaret M. MacDonald

Lucid Solution

 
Kate Tailor
Book Cover: Lucid Solution
Part of the The Designed series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

Lucid has hit the streets. It's a new drug that allows its user the ability to sense and control other people's bodies... and things are about to get ugly.

After traveling the world with the genetically-engineered members of The Designed, Raleigh returns home to the United States having found both her confidence and her ability to induce Lucid in others. A war is brewing, and with Designed on both sides, neither has the advantage. Out of options and in desperate need of allies, Raleigh and her friends are forced to side with Grant and Able, the pharmaceutical company responsible for creating The Designed in the first place. It's an uneasy alliance, complicated further by her reluctance to accept the corporate giant's vision for Lucid. Does this dangerous substance really have a place in the world? Do The Designed? Does she?

With the final showdown looming, Raleigh must put these thoughts aside as she struggles to come to terms with her own growing powers and the very real possibility that she'll have to kill Sigma, the leader of the opposition. Is willing to compromise her morals in order to win the day and save her friends and family? Or will she falter when the decisive moment arrives?

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Publisher: Mad Cat

About the Author

Kate Tailor

According to Kate Tailor, "My first job was building planes, my second working with worms, my third, snug behind the pharmacy counter." Now she spends her time at a messy writing desk with two sleeping cats and dozens of stories scrawled across scrap paper.  She has been writing stories in her head (and sometimes murmuring them under my breath) since she was five. Over the last few years she committed them to paper. She writes the  stories that she wanted to read, but never found. If you’re looking for something interesting, she hopes you’ve found it here. Besides writing, Kate loves her husband, kids, and cats (less so on writing days). She also loves the mountains, rain, cappuccino, worms, board games (not monopoly), and friends. To learn more about Kate (and her writing because let’s face it you probably don’t care about the worms) visit her website at katetailor.com.

Other Books By Kate Tailor

Lucid Origin

 
Kate Tailor
Book Cover: Lucid Origin
Part of the The Designed series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

After the temporary alliance between Grant and Able and the Designed, the team needs a way to beat Sigma before he attacks them. To do so they must take a perilous journey to a mysterious island where an ancient tribe has a secret that can help them. Sealed off from the world, the tribe only allows those with serious illnesses to benefit from their knowledge. Raleigh and the Designed must go on a quest to find the tribe. In order to be successful, Raleigh must weaken herself and allow her blackouts to return. But what she finds there makes her question everything she has learned about Lucid.

Will Raleigh and the Designed find what they need before Sigma strikes?

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Publisher: Mad Cat

About the Author

Kate Tailor

According to Kate Tailor, "My first job was building planes, my second working with worms, my third, snug behind the pharmacy counter." Now she spends her time at a messy writing desk with two sleeping cats and dozens of stories scrawled across scrap paper.  She has been writing stories in her head (and sometimes murmuring them under my breath) since she was five. Over the last few years she committed them to paper. She writes the  stories that she wanted to read, but never found. If you’re looking for something interesting, she hopes you’ve found it here. Besides writing, Kate loves her husband, kids, and cats (less so on writing days). She also loves the mountains, rain, cappuccino, worms, board games (not monopoly), and friends. To learn more about Kate (and her writing because let’s face it you probably don’t care about the worms) visit her website at katetailor.com.

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Lucid Trade

 
Kate Tailor
Book Cover: Lucid Trade
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

Would You Hide or Fight?

In siding with the Designed, Raleigh has entered into a world of peril. While she knew her decision would have consequences, she had no idea just how severe they would be. Now on the run, she's being hunted from all sides. In order to save herself and her friends from being drained of their Lucid by their enemies, Raleigh is forced to work with Chi, whose loyalties are torn, and Tau, who believes she’s working for their enemy and intends to prove it.

The Lucid trade is volatile, and the men who run it are malicious. They don't care who they hurt, or even kill, in their quest to expand their reach and power. They must be stopped, and Raleigh plans on being the one to do it. Can she end the synthetic trade before it ends her? And is she willing to pay the price to do it?

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Publisher: Mad Cat

About the Author

Kate Tailor

According to Kate Tailor, "My first job was building planes, my second working with worms, my third, snug behind the pharmacy counter." Now she spends her time at a messy writing desk with two sleeping cats and dozens of stories scrawled across scrap paper.  She has been writing stories in her head (and sometimes murmuring them under my breath) since she was five. Over the last few years she committed them to paper. She writes the  stories that she wanted to read, but never found. If you’re looking for something interesting, she hopes you’ve found it here. Besides writing, Kate loves her husband, kids, and cats (less so on writing days). She also loves the mountains, rain, cappuccino, worms, board games (not monopoly), and friends. To learn more about Kate (and her writing because let’s face it you probably don’t care about the worms) visit her website at katetailor.com.

Other Books By Kate Tailor

Lucid Design

 
Kate Tailor
Book Cover: Lucid Design
Part of the The Designed series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

What if the next big drug was you?

Lucid is that next big drug.

It gives its user the ability to sense and control other people’s bodies. Scientists and drug dealers seek its power. There’s just one catch. This drug can’t be made in a lab, only by the rare person’s body.

Raleigh is an anomaly who makes an extraordinary amount of Lucid. Now she’s being hunted for the drug in her veins. She finds and unlikely ally in a boy named Rho, who also makes the drug, but he isn’t what he seems. His origins are unusual and his past tainted.

Nothing is straightforward and no matter what she chooses someone will get hurt. Raleigh’s learning that Lucid isn’t the drug she thinks it is, nor is she the girl everyone expects.

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Publisher: Mad Cat

About the Author

Kate Tailor

According to Kate Tailor, "My first job was building planes, my second working with worms, my third, snug behind the pharmacy counter." Now she spends her time at a messy writing desk with two sleeping cats and dozens of stories scrawled across scrap paper.  She has been writing stories in her head (and sometimes murmuring them under my breath) since she was five. Over the last few years she committed them to paper. She writes the  stories that she wanted to read, but never found. If you’re looking for something interesting, she hopes you’ve found it here. Besides writing, Kate loves her husband, kids, and cats (less so on writing days). She also loves the mountains, rain, cappuccino, worms, board games (not monopoly), and friends. To learn more about Kate (and her writing because let’s face it you probably don’t care about the worms) visit her website at katetailor.com.

Other Books By Kate Tailor

Starborn Vendetta

 
Thomas Wrightson
Book Cover: Starborn Vendetta
Part of the The Cluster Cycle series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

In the distant future, on the far side of the galaxy, sits the Cluster. A collection of stars and worlds where life flourishes. Humans, refugees from their lost Ancient Earth, coexist with other peoples; the tribal Feles, the elite Kavki, the distant Ekri.

A human woman arrives on a remote asteroid prison. Unlike the other prisoners, fascinating and unbowed, she earns both respect and hatred. Her name, hidden from all, is Mercedes Solari, deposed Duchess of the planet New Dubai.

Ten years later, a chance encounter frees Mercedes from her prison and sets her on a path of revenge. Changed by a decade of wear and backed by the money and influence of her new patron, she bends all her wits to a single task—the destruction of her enemies and the reclamation of her home and title. Whatever the cost.

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Payback is a concept that all may feel that we want when we have been wronged. The betrayal of love; a work issue or your favourite TV show being cancelled can all instigate in us a desire for revenge. It can fester, corrupt and make you care only about your own feelings above all others. Ion space and with great technology that revenge can be more spectacular and the stakes higher. In Thomas Wrightson’s entertaining SF revenger novel Starborn Vendetta we follow one woman’s climb from an abyss to the quest for the throne of her lost empire.

Prisoner 74 has been sent to the remote prison world of the d’If she is to be lost, never realised and forgotten about. No one cares for her fate. But Prisoner 74 is not your ordinary criminal she is Mercedes a dethroned heir to new Dubai and all its riches. She refuses to give up a quest for escape that comes in the form of a passing diplomat. Mercedes and a loyal prison guard who finds himself unable to refuse aiding her are soon back on New Dubai, in disguise and preparing a game of revenge against the three powerful men who took her power. Mercedes will stop at nothing to win it all back.

This is an enjoyable SF take on The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas and Wrightson has found a balance in telling a period piece of fiction within an SF universe. From the initial beginning we see a vast space empires full of powers, politics and good old human greed. The circumstances that led to Mercedes fall are the same that will allow her to escape and pull revenge. Wrightson has ably designed several set pieces from a vast and cruel prison world to New Dubai where power and style go hand in hand with ruthlessness and everyone for themselves.

Into this is the enigmatic Mercedes. Initially Wrightson teases us as she doesn’t have a name and rarely says much. This is a compelling character who rarely gives much away. I’d had liked to have seen a little bit more why she compels loyalty so quickly but she indeed charismatic and as the story progresses, we can see someone who will do whatever it takes to get revenge and she also enjoys what she can do. She puts innocents in danger; she will lie and deceive anyone, and she is deadly when she needs to be. There is a House of Cards feeling to her rarely do we feel like we have been in her head for long, but her unpredictability makes you want to see what happened next.

Wrightson has adopted a style similar top the period adventure romances it is imagining and that often works with space opera which with its powerful empires and powerful figures aligned with the dregs of society who kill for the right price. Nothing feels safe, nobody feels like they can be trusted, and we get a fine assembly of escapes, fights and dangerous traps. This is ahigh speed adventure tale which delivers exactly what it sets out to do with oomph.

Starborn vendetta leaves room for further stories in this universe and Wrightson does make the worlds vast enough for more tales. For fans of classic-style SF adventures and good old fashioned revenge dramas I think this can be definitely recommended!


About the Author

Thomas Wrightson

Born in 1994, Thomas Wrightson has spent much of his life creating narratives and characters. Home schooled, he currently lives on the island Ynys Mon in Wales, surrounded by beautiful scenery and unpredictable weather.

Other Books By Thomas Wrightson

Series: The Cluster Cycle

The Phoenix Effect Part 1

 

The Reuniting

Margaret M. MacDonald
Book Cover: The Phoenix Effect Part 1
Part of the The Phoenix Effect series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

The world has long been divided. The Unity, and all their bounty, are protected by an army strengthened by nanites, which heal instantly but block the experience of emotion. Those who “resist” the technology live in isolated pockets on the infertile fringes. The wars between each faction died off long before young love blossomed between Arin and Lia... or so it seemed.

Arin, now a Unity commander, captures an enemy assassin only to discover she is Lia. Faced with the prospect of turning the only woman he ever loved over for execution or facing his own, Arin decides to flee with Lia into the unknown territories. Lia introduces Arin to life in the Resistance world, a harsh existence exacerbated by Unity oppression. Upon arrival at Lia’s secret destination, a hidden paradise in resistance territory, Arin discovers that Lia is no lone assassin but an integral part of a clandestine Resistance army and wife of the army’s formidable leader, Roland.

Faced with life as a prisoner or life without his healing nanites, Arin chooses to live as a mortal once again, reawakening his impulsive spirit, along with his feelings for Lia. Arin soon joins the Resistance forces and proves his newfound loyalties by confronting the cold army he once commanded.

But growing suspicion of Roland’s true motivations leads Arin to uncover a great secret hidden by Roland and his fellow army leaders, one that may change the world forever.

About the Author

Margaret M. MacDonald

Writer and Filmmaker Margaret M. MacDonald is passionate about telling stories which transport people into other worlds and make this one a little more extraordinary. Her visual writing style, shaped by her background as a designer, conveys a tangible sense of place, inviting readers into the story world. Born and raised in the United States and currently living in Australia, Margaret likes to bring a mix of both cultures into her work. She has written a library of screenplays and novels in a mix of genres, has directed several short films, and has been lucky enough to win a few awards along the way. She enjoys embracing a creative challenge and wants, more than anything else, to tell a story audiences will love.

Other Books By Margaret M. MacDonald

The Deep End

 
Tyler Tork
Cover: The Deep End
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

Someone in Marlee's scheming family is out to get her--but who? To keep her head above water in this shark tank while figuring it out, she must keep them all from suspecting that she has no memory of them, or of this world. Meanwhile she needs to solve a murder mystery in which she's possibly (let's face it—probably) the murderer, and escape the rebels who want to execute her.

She has issues of identity to deal with. Her new body is round, brown, lesbian, and evil, none of which she's happy about. If she's forced to kill one more person, she might just give up in despair. She's trying to be good, but nobody's making it easy.

Fortunately, her maid will help keep the secret, for a price, and unless she gets a better offer. With any luck, and maybe a little help from the gods, Marlee might figure out how to get home before her own plots come crashing down around her.

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Publisher: Dragonbrae

About the Author

Tyler Tork

Techie guy by day, crime fighter by night. But when crime is slow, as it often is in his quiet hometown of Plymouth, Minnesota, Tyler puts away the mask, cape, and ocelot, and finds a corner to scribble in. The victim of a dark destiny, he whirls through life with a set of shaky assumptions and a mug of rapidly-cooling java. Bewildered, scattered, querulous (some say curmudgeonly), he nonetheless attempts to entertain and inform. Someday, his alien masters will return for him. Until then, buy his books.

On his blog at tylertork.com, he answers your questions about anything. Answers are not guaranteed to be correct or useful, but hopefully are entertaining.

Other Books By Tyler Tork

Stand-Alone Books

Series: The Goodnight Agency

Clementine

 

A Song for the End of the World

John T. Biggs
Cover: Clementine: A Song for the End of the World
Part of the Clementine series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

What Kills You Makes You Stronger

Clementine is a teenage girl from rural Oklahoma who hears voices. At first, it’s nothing special. Lost dogs and ice cream socials—things on local radio, complete with commercials. But when when she slips into a trance and foretells the beginning of World War III mere hours before the bombs start falling, the locals realize just how special Clem may be.

Carl is a government scientist with a secret laboratory. He’s trying to figure out how to save the human race once the war ends and the radiation clears, and Clem’s special gift may be exactly what he needs. First, though, he’ll have to do a few experiments. Nothing painful, he tells her—well, not too painful, anyway.

With no interest in becoming Carl’s experimental lab rat, Clem runs, leading the scientist and his cronies on a wild chase through the ruins of the American heartland. She’s almost free when one of her pursuers decides to shoot her rather than allow her to escape. Bullets tear through her chest—a fatal wound—and it looks like things are finished for young Clem, to say nothing of Carl’s grand plans to save the world and gain fame and fortune… until Clem wakes up in Carl’s secret lab a thousand years later.

Well, it’s not Clementine, exactly, but she has Clem’s memories and some of her voices. Carl is there, too. In fact, now there are two of him. (238 pages)

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Publisher: Dragonbrae

About the Author

John T. Biggs

Everything John T. Biggs writes is so full of Oklahoma that once you read it, you'll never get the red dirt stains washed out of your mind. The tribes play a significant role. No authentic discussion of the state is possible without them. Traditional Native American legends are reworked and set in the modern era, the way oral historians always intended. One of John's stories, "Boy Witch" took grand prize in the 80th annual Writer's Digest Competition in 2011. Another won third prize in the 2011 Lorian Hemingway short story contest. Eighty of his short stories have been published in one form or another, along with several of his novels.

Other Books By John T. Biggs

Ghost Radio

 

A Clementine Novella

John T. Biggs
Cover: Ghost Radio
Part of the Clementine series:
Editions:ebook

When Clementine goes into a trance and predicts WWIII at a meeting of a rural spiritualist church, the congregation is convinced she is a prophet with a direct connection to the other side.

Carl, a scientist with a nearby secret lab, has other ideas. He’s certain she has a special kind of epilepsy that opens a previously unknown channel of communication—just the thing he needs to produce clones who’ll be the key to the survival of the human race. But first, he has to “get a close up look at Clem’s fascinatin’ little brain.”

It sounds like she’s about to become some kind of lab rat, but Clementine narrowly escapes him the night the atomic bombs start falling. None close enough to set her little corner of the world on fire, but cities go up in smoke and modern technology is ruined forever‚ no power, no transportation, no communication. Through it all, Clem she stays one step ahead of Carl and the ragged survivors of the holocaust.

After a few months of close calls and near disasters, though, Clem knows she can’t keep running. Her only way out is to meet Carl face to face. If he wins, it might mean the end of Clementine. If she wins, it might mean the end of the world… (80 pages)

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Publisher: Dragonbrae

About the Author

John T. Biggs

Everything John T. Biggs writes is so full of Oklahoma that once you read it, you'll never get the red dirt stains washed out of your mind. The tribes play a significant role. No authentic discussion of the state is possible without them. Traditional Native American legends are reworked and set in the modern era, the way oral historians always intended. One of John's stories, "Boy Witch" took grand prize in the 80th annual Writer's Digest Competition in 2011. Another won third prize in the 2011 Lorian Hemingway short story contest. Eighty of his short stories have been published in one form or another, along with several of his novels.

Other Books By John T. Biggs

Time and Time Again

 

The Curious Case of Mr. Stephen White

J.B. Hogan
Book Cover: Time and Time Again
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

An unlikely hero.

Stephen White is a nerdy young software engineer in a little Midwest town where nothing ever happens. He’s more interested in plopping down on his couch and watching television than in seeking out anything even remotely adventurous. Adventure finds him, though, during a hiking trip with friends. He gets light-headed on the trail and passes out, only to awaken and find that he’s somehow travelled into the past.

A journey through time.

How can this be possible? Is it real, or some kind of vivid fever dream? Struggling to come to grips with this new reality, Stephen is flung headlong into a series of dizzying adventures through yesteryear—on a murderous run with 1860s outlaws, at a Russian execution, beside the stations of the Via Dolorosa—each more dangerous than the last. He has no idea when the next journey will begin, and no clue as to how to stop it. All he knows is that it will happen…

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Publisher: Dragonbrae

About the Author

J.B. Hogan

J. B. Hogan is a prolific and award-winning author. He has published over 270 stories and poems.

His books, including Living Behind Time, Losing Cotton, The Rubicon, Fallen, Tin Hollow, and many more, are available from Oghma Creative Media and Amazon.com.

Other Books By J.B. Hogan

Bound by Honor

 
Rose Sartin
Bound by Honor cover
Part of the Centallian Guardians series:
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

Can two hearts bond a galaxy apart ….

“I’ve come for you.” With those words, Rhyel of New Centallus changes Dr. Amber Donovan’s life forever.

Their home world destroyed, Rhyel, six Elders, and the predominately male crew of his interstellar ship, Novaria, are the only survivors of their species. Their assailants demanded the sacred artifact known as the Acqeli. Rhyel is charged with its protection.

Generations of Elders have guarded the black crystal, a translation stone capable of unlocking terrible secrets etched on the temple walls of a dead planet. To protect the Acqeli, the Centallians must colonize an uninhabited world and rebuild their race. The men barter for brides from Earth’s third world countries. But they cannot trade for the woman who is key to the colony’s survival. Rhyel may be forced to compromise his honor to obtain her.

Light years from the new colony, Amber is plagued by dreams of world devastation, of the death of a stranger she calls Mother. In the aftermath of a particularly troubling dream, she discovers a man in her room—Rhyel. Like the dark incarnation of an unrelenting primitive god, his eyes burn with an intensity of purpose that terrifies her.

All she wants is to go home, but she finds herself caught up in the life and death struggles of the young colony. All he wants is her, but the circumstances that draw them together must also keep them apart. Ultimately, the bond they share cannot be denied. Bound by love, they face the challenges of a new life and a new world.

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Publisher: Radiance

About the Author

Rose Sartin

Rose Sartin was born in Illinois, raised in Iowa, and has spent most of her life in the Missouri Ozarks. She and her late husband, Gary, raised two daughters, Melissa and Angela, and a son, Eric, while building businesses as beekeepers, leathercrafters, and managers/tour guides in a show cave. Ms. Sartin is also proficient with the mountain dulcimer, performing in radio, television, and documentaries. Today she lives in their family home on an Ozark ridgetop that overlooks the Mark Twain National Forest. She is currently finishing the second and third novels in her Honor trilogy. Her life is filled with family and friends, music, good books, and plotting adventures for characters who show up on her mind’s doorstep.

Other Books By Rose Sartin

Stand-Alone Books

Series: Centallian Guardians

Acqeli

 

Prelude to Bound by Honor

Rose Sartin

Acqeli—The black crystal ….

Lotharko of Gelthor refused to destroy it ….

Riistren of Centallus discovered its dark secret ….

Rhyel of New Centallus witnessed the total annihilation of his world because of it …

Acqeli—the crystal thread binding two dead planets to Earth, will change the destiny of one unsuspecting woman.

Experience the chain of events that bring Amber and Rhyel together in Rose Sartin’s debut novel, Bound by Honor.

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Publisher: Radiance
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About the Author

Rose Sartin

Rose Sartin was born in Illinois, raised in Iowa, and has spent most of her life in the Missouri Ozarks. She and her late husband, Gary, raised two daughters, Melissa and Angela, and a son, Eric, while building businesses as beekeepers, leathercrafters, and managers/tour guides in a show cave. Ms. Sartin is also proficient with the mountain dulcimer, performing in radio, television, and documentaries. Today she lives in their family home on an Ozark ridgetop that overlooks the Mark Twain National Forest. She is currently finishing the second and third novels in her Honor trilogy. Her life is filled with family and friends, music, good books, and plotting adventures for characters who show up on her mind’s doorstep.

Other Books By Rose Sartin

Stand-Alone Books

Series: Centallian Guardians

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