PETS
IN SPACE® 5 STORIES
The King's Quest
A Dragon Lords of Valdier Short Story
by S.E. Smith
A King’s Quest…
King Tamblin, ruler of the Kingdom of
Glitter, prepares for battle after the aliens foretold by his sister, Tia,
return to their world. He will stop at nothing to prevent the creatures from
decimating the small moon again. Yet, there is little he or the Kingdom of the
Sand People can do to stop the invasion. Their last hope for survival rests on
his shoulders when Tia insists he journey on a quest to find the beautiful and
mysterious Arosa, Queen of the Wood Fairies, and ask for her help.
Arosa, considered a Goddess on many
worlds she visits, is stunned when a playful trick to entertain the Dragonlings
of Valdier turns her life upside down. She never expects to feel the strange
yet exhilarating emotions that Tamblin stirs inside her. Her kind were supposed
to observe other species, not fall in love with them!
Attempting to keep her distance, Arosa
assigns a small bat to guard Tamblin, just for her own peace of mind, but it
isn’t long until the bat alerts her that Tamblin is in danger, and Arosa
realizes that she will break all the rules to protect him.
Arosa can admit to herself that she
loves Tamblin, but will the King return her feelings when he discovers that she
is more than just the Queen of the Wood Fairies—that she has the power to not
only save his world, but create entire galaxies?
DARK AMBITIONS
A Class 5 Novella
by Michelle Diener
It's been months since Rose McKenzie
was taken far from Earth. She's trying to make a place for herself amongst the
Grih, with help from her Grihan lover, Captain Dav Jallan, and the dangerous
and loyal Sazo, a powerful artificial intelligence who's integrated with an
infamous Class 5 battleship.
When Rose gets the chance to join an
exploration team going down to collect information from a planet in Grihan
airspace, she jumps at the opportunity to stretch her legs and breathe some
real air.
But someone is already on the
planet—the Krik—and they don't want anyone to know what they're up to. The Krik
are the chaos agents of the United Council, often riding the edge of the law or
over it. They ambush the exploration team and take them prisoner, but they
don't realize they didn't get everyone. They didn't get Rose.
With Dav, and his spaceship the
Barrist, lured away by a distress signal, Rose and Sazo, along with a furry
friend Rose has made, are the exploration team's only hope at rescue. And Rose
never leaves a friend behind.
STAR CRUISE: RETURN VOYAGE
The Sectors SF Romance Series
By Veronica Scott
Gianna Nadenoft is a reclusive
survivor of one of the worst interstellar cruise ship disasters in the history
of the Sectors. Now a renowned artist, she hasn’t left her home planet in
decades, not since returning there after the wreck as a traumatized
three-year-old. With her service animal at her side, she’s going to attempt to
travel across the star systems to attend her brother’s wedding and reunite with
her fellow survivors.
Trevor Hanson is a security officer
aboard the cruise liner Nebula Zephyr with his own traumatic past as a former
Special Forces soldier and prisoner of war. He’s assigned to provide personal
protection to Gianna during her time aboard the ship but soon finds his
interest turning from professional to romantic.
Onboard the Nebula Zephyr, powerful
enemies are watching Gianna and making plans to seize this rare opportunity to
gain access to her and the secrets they believe she’s still keeping about the
wreck. Can Trevor overcome his personal demons and rise to the occasion to save
Gianna from the danger waiting on his ship, or will she slip through his
fingers and suffer a terrible fate deferred from her last disastrous voyage?
GENERAL’S HOLIDAY
Project Enterprise Series Story
By Pauline Baird Jones
A lady, a frog, and the General that
wanted to be Picard…
General John Halliwell, Commander of
the Project Enterprise Earth Expedition, has spent most of his time in the
Garradian Galaxy being shot at and shooting back. When a mysterious and
intriguing lady arrives on Kikk asking for some non-shooting help, he is
intrigued enough to listen.
All Naxe has ever known is a life of
hiding and providing. With the end of the war, freedom still feels further than
ever. Determined to end the stalemate that threatens her people, she will break
all the rules—even the one where she asks General Halliwell for help.
Of course, she should have known
better. Trouble—and the shooting—starts the moment she brings the general and
his team to the Scoyfol ships. It won’t matter that the enterprising General
Halliwell is the first man to remind her she is a woman if they are dead! Is it
possible to end the stalemate, survive the shooting, and still find a happily
ever after?
JUGGERNAUT
The Inherited Stars Series
By Laurie A. Green
Lieutenant Commander Dekessa “Dek”
Garr is second-in-command of a security force that protects a discovery buried
deep inside an ancient lava tube. The implications of the find are staggering,
and the stakes are high if their enemy—the Alliance—ever learns the truth about
Site D. When her commander suddenly departs with zero warning and a mysterious
visitor arrives, her job becomes a whole new level of complicated.
Sno Telon has an exercise to perform,
and he isn’t about to let anyone stop him--including the dedicated acting
commander known as Dek. But when his partner, CaSandra, a bioengineered
dog-cat-weasel-mongoose, takes an immediate liking to the team leader, Sno
realizes there’s much more to the woman than harsh words and hard scowls.
When Dek is attacked by an invisible
foe who infiltrates the off-limits excavation, she immediately suspects Telon
as the obvious culprit. But her interrogations of the man don’t go as planned
and an unlikely bond forms between them as they reach a startling conclusion.
Could the invisible perpetrator actually be an Alliance spy who’s about to blow
open the secrets of Site D?
Can Dek trust Telon and his StarDog
partner to help root out a possible Alliance operative, even if it means
breaking every security protocol in the process? If her instincts about Telon
are wrong, Site D could be lost forever…as well as her life.
GALACTIC SEARCH AND RESCUE
Central Galactic Concordance Series
By Carol Van Natta
Rescuers Taz and Rylando can’t let
their forbidden attraction get in the way of saving lives. When a planetary
disaster turns deadly, can they save an entire town... and each other?
Subcaptain Taz Correa, telekinetic
talent and first-responder in the military’s underfunded and overworked
Galactic Search and Rescue division, hides her unprofessional attraction for
teammate Rylando and his unorthodox team of animal assistants. When catastrophe
strikes a politically important town, Taz, Rylando, and his animals are the
only rescuers left to respond.
Subcaptain Rylando Dalroinn loves his
telepathic connection to his animals, but wants a heart connection with
teammate Taz. Unfortunately, not only is it against the rules, but he doesn’t
know how to tell her. And in GSAR, rescue missions always come first.
Kaz lives her worst nightmare when
trapped underground with the animals in a hidden room set to blow sky high.
Everything Rylando loves is in peril, and now he’s at the mercy of people who
aren’t just victims.
If Taz, Rylando, and the animals can’t
find their way to save each other fast and neutralize the threat, the whole
town will become a disaster statistic.
REAPER
Xian Warriors Series
By Regine Abel
She survived against the odds...
Janelle’s life is defined by the
small, underground research base she has always called home. Imprisoned for
twenty years after the base was bombed, she and the few Creckel survivors are
running out of time as the last of their resources are depleted. With no hope
for rescue, she and her companions wait for the dreaded Reaper to finish what
the bombs missed.
Reaper, a half-human, half-Kryptid, is
part of the Vanguard—an elite peacekeeping force determined to help the
survivors left behind by war. New intel leads him to a remote research base
where he discovers Creckel survivors—and a lone human woman named Janelle.
Janelle’s life hasn’t prepared her for
the breathtakingly stunning, genetically engineered warrior. His words, filled
with impossible promises, make her believe there is a place for her somewhere
in the vast universe—with him by her side. Is it possible that dreams can come
true, or will guilt for another man’s deeds shatter her new hope?
PASTFINDERS
Starways Series
By Alexis Glynn Latner
With a little bit of luck….
Mercury Chancer came to the planet
Tellus as a member of an archaeological team investigating ancient alien ruins.
The archaeologists have to work fast because a terraforming flood will soon put
the ruins under water, but Mercury isn’t worried. She has a psychic gift that
changes the laws of probability, bringing her accidental luck which should help
the team.
Boerdelim “Haze” Tel-Hazon works for
the Office of Planetary Protection. An official visit to the dig site leads him
to Mercury—and a strange, shapeshifting alien animal. Haze is shaken when a
long-forgotten trauma from his past comes alive. With Mercury’s luck and the
help from a sympathetic alien animal, he just might survive!
Just when Haze didn’t think things
could get any worse, the archaeologists make a stupendous discovery—and greedy
enemies take notice. When the archaeologists prove they are not the defenseless
scientists they pretend to be, Haze has to wonder—will flood, foes, and the
resurgent past defeat them, or will luck and love win the day?
MITTENS NOT INCLUDED
TriSystems: Smugglers Series
By JC Hay
Three little kittens have lost their
way…
Layth Ali thought he was happy. On
board the Sentinel of Gems, he is allowed to run the medical bay as he sees
fit, and the crew appreciates his talents. Most importantly, the smugglers
don’t ask him questions about his past, or pressure him to leave his
self-imposed exile. But when a new passenger and her precious cargo get dumped
into his lap, it’s all he can do to deflect her incessant questions and keep
her at arm’s length.
Meja Aquarone knew she was courting
trouble when she stole a litter of kittens from the lab where she worked, but
she refused to allow their perceived flaw to become a death sentence. Now she’s
on the run, hoping that the crew of the Sentinel can smuggle her someplace safe
without her employers finding her. She wasn’t expecting to find someone on
board who understood the tiny creatures, or who shielded his compassion behind
a wall of spiky indifference, but ten minutes with the ship’s doctor leaves her
curious to know more.
Forced to go to the one place Layth
swore never to return, the walls are closing around them. With a corporate
bounty on their heads, and three cats becoming increasingly difficult to hide,
Layth and Meja have to decide – what are they willing to sacrifice to gain the
safety they desire? And is that protection worth being alone?
FINDING MOGHA
Before The Fall Series
By Kyndra Hatch
Dani Myers is on the run and running
out of time. Her discovery of a young Korthan Hellhound in a lab sends her on a
desperate mission. The pup isn’t some obscure test animal; it is a sentient
Mogha that can speak. The last thing she needs as she tries to save the
creature is to have her ship shot out from under her.
K’vyn doesn’t hate all humans, just
the ones that won’t cease terraforming Korthan worlds. Their disregard for life
has driven his people to the brink of all-out war. When a human supply
freighter shows up in Korthan territory near the beloved Mogha home world, he
is duty bound to rid the galaxy of another human ship. A distress call as the
ship crashes creates an unexpected soul-deep pull inside him.
Dani’s decision to smuggle the Mogha
called C’hase back to his home world might not have been her smartest move, but
she felt she had no choice when she overheard plans to terraform the animal’s
home planet. Now, without help from the Korthan who shot her down, she’ll never
be able to warn the Mogha inhabitants of impending doom.
She isn’t sure which surprises her
more after she crashes on an unknown planet—the fact that she is still alive,
or the mutual attraction between her and K’vyn, the Korthan who did the
shooting. Is it possible a Korthan and a human can work together to save C’hase
and the Mogha home world, or will they be caught between those that want to
terraform and the Korthans determined to save the Mogha from extinction?
RATE OF RETURN
The Department of Homeworld Security
By Cassandra Chandler
Kimmy loves being co-owner of the only
pet parlor in the county. She has always been serious when it comes to taking
care of animals. Any kind of animal—except maybe the two dogs fighting in her
yard in the middle of the night. The canines she is familiar with don’t have tentacles,
glow, or change into one of the hottest guys she has ever seen.
Serac is intrigued by the courageous
Earthling that ran to his aid, wielding only a primitive weapon called a
‘broom’. He and his adorable, six-legged pet aren’t mythical beings. They are
aliens—and they aren't alone. He needs to stay focused, but focusing is
impossible when Kimmy accidentally imprints with the Lyrian pet he is supposed
to deliver. To complicate matters further, his zyln, the elemental spirit that
lives within him, is just as enamored with her as he is, plus his ex-partner is
determined to capture her for his own nefarious ends!
With billions of sentients throughout
the galaxy depending on him, Serac’s mission has to come first. If he walks
away from Kimmy, he knows he'll leave his heart behind. But will he be leaving
her in the hands of his ex-partner?
GLITCH
Crashland Colony Romance Series
by Leslie Chase
Famous last words....
I made a promise to myself never to
forget what the alien Prytheen stole from me. When one of them tells me that
we're fated mates, it doesn’t change anything. Nothing could make me change my
mind! Not the fact he gets along with Glitch, my holographic cat. Not the fact
that he has a killer body and a smoldering gaze that leaves me short of breath.
I won’t let my guard down.
Karnac is an alien pirate.
Unfortunately, he is also the second part of the technical staff at the
Crashland Colony broadcast station. I patch the human stuff, he takes care of
the Prytheen tech. My promise to keep everything professional between us goes
south when Glitch spots disaster heading straight for the colony.
It is amazing how a life or death
situation can change your perspective. Maybe having a crude, arrogant,
domineering Prytheen pirate of my own wouldn’t be such a bad idea?
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