For the fifth consecutive year, a Pets in Space® release day has arrived. This time for volume 5!
PETS IN SPACE® 5
It’s time for an escape! Pets in Space® 5 is back for the fifth amazing year! Escape to new worlds with twelve of today’s top Science Fiction Romance authors. They have written 12 original, never-before-released stories filled with action, adventure, suspense, humor, and romance that will take you out of this world. The giving doesn’t stop there. For the fifth year, Pets in Space® will be donating a portion of the first month proceeds to Hero-Dogs.org, a non-profit charity that supports our veterans and First Responders. If you are ready to forget the world around you and make a difference while you are having fun, grab your copy before it’s gone!
Proud supporters of Hero-Dogs.org, Pets in Space® authors have donated over $15,300 in the past four years to help place specially trained dogs with veterans and first responders. 10% of all pre-orders and the first month’s royalties of Pets in Space® 5 will again go to Hero-Dogs.org. Open your hearts and grab your limited release copy of Pets in Space® 5 today so together we can continue to assist this worthy charity! https://www.hero-dogs.org/
PETS IN SPACE® AND THE SFR BRIGADE
The Pets in Space® project is endorsed by the SFR Brigade and is primarily owned and managed by two members of the SFR Brigade administrator team, Pauline Baird Jones and Veronica Scott. Each volume has featured from nine to thirteen science fiction romance stories that are generally novella to novel length. Pets in Space® 5 includes work by the following science fiction romance authors: S.E. Smith, Michelle Diener, Veronica Scott, Pauline Baird Jones, Laurie A. Green, Carol Van Natta, Regine Abel, Alexis Glynn Latner, JC Hay, Kyndra Hatch, Cassandra Chandler and Leslie Chase.
Ready to grab your copy? You can find Pets in Space® 5 here:
Pets in Space® 4 is now available to purchase at any of the below retailers. Don't miss this superb collection of 13 all new, never before published stories by some of today's award-winning and bestselling authors, including members of the SFR Brigade. Many of these stories are part of popular SFR series, too!
This volume is about 1,500 pages in length--or about the size of FIVE full-length novels--so it will keep you in great reading for many, many enjoyable hours to come.
In addition, 10% of all pre-orders and first month's royalties will go to support Hero Dogs, an organization that raises, trains and provides service dogs to military veterans and first responders.
But hurry! Pets in Space® 4 will only be available for a limited time...and then it's gone forever!
It's October 10th and that means the Pets are Back! And we invite you to join our mission! Read on.
Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2
Twelve New York Times, USA TODAY, award-winning and SFR Brigade authors have all joined forces:
S.E. Smith
M.K. Eidem
Susan Grant
Michelle Howard
Cara Bristol
Veronica Scott
Pauline Baird Jones
Laurie A. Green
Sabine Priestley
Jessica E. Subject
Carol Van Natta
Alexis Glynn Latner
We're on a mission to help out Hero-Dogs, a charity that supports our veterans, and to introduce more readers to science fiction romance!
10% of all preorders and the first month’s profits go to Hero-Dogs.org. Hero Dogs raises and trains service dogs and places them free of charge with US Veterans to improve quality of life and restore independence.
This massive collection packs a punch for readers, featuring twelve original, never before released science fiction romance *plus pets* novellas, many of them in favorite SFR series.
PEARL’S DRAGON
A Novella in the Dragon Lords of Valdier Series
By S.E. Smith (New York Times/USA TODAY Bestselling Author)
An old dragon warrior unexpectedly finds love with a human mate who is as creative and clever as she is dangerous - a perfect combination when poachers attack.
A GRIM PET
A Novella in the Tornian Series
By M.K. Eidem (USA TODAY Bestselling Author)
Grim’s two young daughters discover an injured raptor and their love, faith, and kindness creates far-reaching consequences no one expects.
THE PRINCE, THE PILOT, AND THE PUPPY
(“Star Puppy”)
A Novella in The Star Series
By Susan Grant (New York Times/USA TODAY Bestselling, and RITA Award Winning Author)
A talented starfighter pilot and a handsome prince rescue a starving puppy only to discover they are the ones that need saving.
WIRED FOR LOVE
By Michelle Howard
When a young woman is reluctantly drawn into a scarred soldier's past, they soon find themselves working against an enemy with an old grudge.
RESCUED BY THE CYBORG
A Novella in the Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance Series
By Cara Bristol (USA TODAY Bestselling Author)
A hostage waits for death at the hands of predatory aliens when a cyborg agent disobeys orders.
STAR CRUISE: SONGBIRD
A Novella in The Sectors SF Romance Series
By Veronica Scott
A security officer aboard a spaceship finds his job complicated by his attraction to the interstellar singer he is assigned to protect and the bird he has inherited.
TIME TRAP
A Novella in the Project Enterprise Series
By Pauline Baird Jones
An unusual birthday gift creates more trouble than a USAF Engineer expects when he finds a time traveling rebel and her parrot partner in his arms.
COURTING DISASTER: STARDOG 2
A Novella in the Inherited Stars Series
By Laurie A. Green
A commander of a spaceship faces the toughest decision of his life when he vows to protect the woman and her StarDog that he is escorting through a dangerous section of space.
SENSATE
A Novella in the Alien Attachments Series
By Sabine Priestley
A scientist must decide if she can trust the man who once betrayed her if she is to help his sentient com unit gain a physical form.
GIB AND THE TIBBAR
A Novella in the Galactic Defenders Series
By Jessica E. Subject
A young woman fights to come to terms with her place in the universe with a little help from the sexy alien warrior befriended by her furry pet.
PET TRADE
A Novella in the Central Galactic Concordance Series
By Carol Van Natta
An elite forces veteran crash lands on a frontier planet with a cargo full of designer pets and must seek the help of a talented, but damaged veterinarian to help him save them.
MASCOT
A Novella in the Aeon's Legacy Series
By Alexis Glynn Latner
A space station manager and an interstellar auditor must work through their antagonism and attraction to each other while the station comes under attack. Then the station mascot enters the fray!
If you're already a fan of one or more of these series, this is your chance to catch up on the latest release. But if you're not, each story works as a stand-alone romantic adventure.
The original Pets in Space collection (no longer available) was wildly popular with readers and named one of the "Best Books of 2015: E-Originals Fiction" by LibraryJournal.com as well as winning two SFR Galaxy Awards.
This second volume promises to be even better, and offers three more stories than the original. The print version is a whopping 826 pages or almost 289,000 words!
PlusEmbrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2 is also being offered in a PRINT VERSION!
Early reviews are looking fantastic!
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The Authors of Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2
Please tell us a bit about yourself: Hi,
I’m Laurel Richards. I have an active imagination and knew I wanted to be a
writer from an early age. I was first published by a small press in 2003 and
haven’t stopped writing since, though I’ve used different pen names as I’ve
evolved. My taste in genres is eclectic. I love sci-fi romance and paranormal
romance, as well as fantasies and cozy mysteries.
Tell us about The Colony: The Colony is a
fast-paced sci-fi romance novel about a human colony on another planet that is
mysteriously wiped out in a single night. Dr. Elisa Everett is the only one
left when Alexander Valerian and his security team arrive, and Alex can’t be
sure if Elisa is hallucinating due to exposure to some alien element or if she really
did see predators ripping the colony apart. As he and Elisa search for answers,
they find evidence that they might not have been the first colonists on the
planet.
What inspired you to write this particular
story?: If we can find dinosaur bones and other incredible fossils here on
Earth, imagine what we might discover on other planets. This was the idea that
got me started on The Colony. The heroine is a paleontologist at a human colony
on the planet of Jangala. She makes a huge discovery on this jungle planet, but
soon after, the colonists suffer a terrible attack that leaves her the only
survivor. Who or what really attacked them?
Please share a favourite snippet from your
book:
Elisa got a firsthand look at the
aftermath of what she’d witnessed onscreen: furniture upended, broken panels, and
dark spatters on the walls. There was an added ingredient now, though. Here and
there were dark, sticky pools of blood, standing like puddles after a hard
rain. Even she could smell the brassy tang in the air. It was already beginning
to sour, or maybe that was only her stomach.
She didn’t have time to be sick.
The sound of heavy breathing emanated from one of the side passages up ahead,
followed by the deep, rhythmic thud of footsteps. Judging by the sound, it had
to be a big, heavy man, or else someone who was weighed down. Elisa envisioned
somebody lugging a dead body, but she couldn’t actually see anything through
the gloom.
More footsteps—these moving much
faster—reached her ear, and she tensed when she realized they were coming
directly toward her and Bria. A residential door gaped open to their right, so
she and her sister jumped inside. They wound up in a woman’s bedroom. The small
space was unoccupied and had clearly been ransacked. Bria grabbed the door to
tug it closed, but one of the hinges was mangled. The door groaned and remained
jammed open about fifteen centimeters.
Elisa’s heel slid on the debris
littering the floor, but she caught her balance against a metal wall unit. The
racing footsteps outside came closer. Fear, combined with the scent of
shattered perfume, made Elisa’s lungs burn and ache. She had a death grip on
the stunner, and both she and Bria aimed for the doorway when the steps slowed.
There was a pause, as if maybe
their ears were playing tricks. Then a denser shadow coalesced on the other
side, and Elisa half depressed the trigger before Bria cried out, “Donaldson!”
The battered man gasped and
jumped back. He turned and sprinted several meters away before Bria darted into
the hallway and said his name again. He stopped and finally looked at them.
“Everett?” he asked tremulously.
“Is that you?”
“Yes.” Bria stepped closer to
him. “I’m here with my sister. We’re on our way to the telecommunications
office. We have to get out a distress call. Is the way clear?”
“Clear?” He wiped his face with his
palm, and Elisa could see his left temple and cheek were discolored. “No, the
way is not friggin’ clear! Those things are crawling all over the place.
They’ve already killed most of the colonists and hauled them out. It’s Malterra
all over again.”
“What?” Bria demanded. “What
things? What do you mean things are crawling around killing people?”
Officer Donaldson trembled so
hard his teeth chattered. “Animals. Predators. Claws and teeth and ripping
people to shreds. They’re hunting us. Eating everyone.”
“Indigenous?” Elisa asked, though
she knew of no such predators on Jangala.
“Maybe biological weapons,” her
sister said. “The terrorists might have brought some kind of attack animals.
Maybe they’re using this colony as a test site.”
“Terrorists?” Donaldson parroted.
He shook his head. “Look, you’ll never make it to telecommunications. We’ve got
to go back and get the others.”
“Others?” Now Bria was the one
repeating things.
Elisa kept a close eye on the
surrounding passageway and waited for the two officers to pull it together. She
hoped they’d hurry, because she wanted to keep moving.
“There’s nobody down that way,” Bria
explained. “When this started, everyone was coming off shift and heading to the
cafeteria or their rooms. You and Commander Walsh left and answered the first
call.”
Donaldson keened under his
breath. “There’s no one? There has to be. Where the hell is the rest of our
security team?”
“I don’t know,” Bria hissed. “Night shift
was supposed to have come on, but no one had reported in yet. It’s up to us. We’ve
got to get out a message.”
Which comes first for you – a character's
looks, personality or name?: I would have to say the personality comes to me
first. The name is always last, and I often try several different character
names before I finally settle on something.
Any tips for aspiring authors?: Keep
reading, keep writing, and remember there’s always more to learn about this
craft and industry.
Questions for fun:
If you had the power of time travel, is
there anything you would go back and change? Why/why not?: There are lots of
little things I would change but nothing major. I’ve always tried to make the
best decisions I could with the information I had at the time. Of course, I now
have more information thanks to hindsight, so I do sometimes say, “I wish I’d
known then.”
What super-power would you choose?: It’s a
tie between clairvoyance and shape-shifting.
If you could have three wishes, what would
they be?: Excellent health for all my friends and family, more book sales, and
good fortune.
Coffee, tea or wine?: Tea if I’m looking
for caffeine. Wine if I’m looking to relax.
What is your favourite book? (aside from
one of your own!): You’re making me choose?! I don’t have just one favorite,
but I really loved Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh.
Favourite genre and why?: Sci-Fi Romance
rarely disappoints me. If anything, I complain that the SFR authors make their
works too short, only because I want to keep reading more.
Favourite colour?: Turquoise.
Upcoming news and plans for the future?: I
have a fantasy novel, The Great Road, tentatively scheduled to come out in
April 2017. I also have another sci-fi romance, Fate’s Mission, that I hope to
release later in the year.
Thank you so much for taking the time to
talk to us!
Blurb:
Not
everyone will make it out alive.
Responding to a distress call, Officer
Alexander Valerian and the rest of his security team arrive at the human colony
on the planet of Jangala to find blood and gore all over the walls. All the
colonists are dead or missing except for Dr. Elisa Everett, a pretty
paleontologist he finds injured and nearly suffocated in a ventilation shaft.
Now Alex has to figure out how sixty-nine colonists were wiped out in a single
night, but Elisa’s account of killer monsters just raises more questions. Has
the colony really been attacked by bloodthirsty beasts, or did everyone succumb
to a powerful hallucinogen that made them turn on one another? He had better
find out fast, because Elisa’s life is in his hands.
The last volume in the Portals project - a series of free scifi romance first chapter samplers to tempt your appetite - released yesterday, bringing them up to a total of seven. Hopefully we have brought you a broad spectrum of scifi romance to try and so pick your favourites for future reads. Enjoy!
Not picked up the previous volumes? Go to the main website for all the retailer links for each volume HERE.
Welcome! You have arrived at a portal to the galaxy.
Enter, and you'll be introduced by award-winning authors to worlds beyond imagining, with heroes & heroines who dare to take it to the edge and beyond. Count on these adventurers to take their best shot … at their enemies and at romance!
Contains 12 first chapters, with links to purchase any or all of the complete books, should you wish.
Read for some alien-busting-hot-loving-SFR-suspense goodness? Trouble in Mind, Book Two of the Interstellar Rescue Series, launches today from INK’d Press. This
science fiction/suspense romance has earned FOUR STARS from RT Book Reviews and rave reviews from Publishers’ Weekly, Smart Girls Love Sci
Fi, Nerd Girl Official and Crystal’s Many Reviewers. Get your copy NOW from Amazon!
Here’s the blurb:
She couldn’t get him
out of her mind—
and that’s when the
trouble started.
FBI Special Agent
Alana Matheson is good at her job, despite a past that would make even a
seasoned agent cringe. She has no time for the outside help the victim’s family
has brought in on a kidnapping case, no matter how good-looking he is.
But galactic tracker
Gabriel Cruz is no ordinary private investigator, and the skills he brings to
the job will save both their lives. Because Lana and Gabriel are not the only
ones seeking an unusual little boy and his mother. Their rivals in the chase
are not of this world, and only an alliance built on the bonds of love can
ensure that Lana and Gabriel beat the alien hunters to their prey.
And, just for all you SF geeks, here’s a
special peek at a secret heroine of Trouble
in Mind, an alien female named Ardis.
No matter what their “legal” status, humans were no
longer free in the Minertsan Consortium.They were slaves, whether anyone currently owned them or not.It was already common practice to take them
into custody on the slimmest of pretenses.Curfews and segregation laws set them apart.Ardis knew that it was only a matter of time
before the sweeps began, arresting and deporting whoever was left to the labor
camps or the mining planets.It was all
part of Sennik’s plan.
The only question was how long Sennik would wait
before he implemented it.The hunt for
the one who was the key to his plan had dragged on too long.He was growing impatient; Ardis could sense
it in him.She shuddered despite the
swampy warmth of the Venue’s sensory backdrop.
The house lights went down.The music went up.The spectral vibrations began.Ardis waited, and within seconds a human male
slipped into the seat beside her.
She turned to him, but before she could speak, hands
like steel claws gripped her arms, lights blinded her and she was pulled from
her seat.The man next to her was
snatched up, too, but with brutal efficiency.The Thranes in the uniform of Consortium Military Security snarled and
beat him, even though he offered little resistance.Those that surrounded her merely maintained
an unbreakable hold on her elbows as they escorted her out of the great hall.
Ardis couldn’t help herself.Her aura flashed the greens and yellows of
her fear as they led her out, the sickly brown of her embarrassment as all
turned to look at her.She was
terrified, but that she dared not show.It was reasonable that she would be confused.But her true emotion—her horror at the
thought that they had been discovered—could not be betrayed.She fought for control, knowing her reaction
would mean life or death, not only for herself, but for dozens of others.
Soon enough they reached the outer atrium of the
Venue, and as the doors sighed shut behind her, Ardis’s courage drained from
her like the tide from the shore.For
waiting in the lobby was the Director Prime of Consortium Military Security
herself.The First General’s aura was
the bright gold of satisfaction.
Ardis did what she could to show the proper respect
with her aura and her body language.
The First General nodded to her.Then she turned to the Thranes holding
her.Idiots!Release her!Her colors warmed.I
apologize for their . . . ardor . . . Director Second Ardis.They were instructed to ensure your safety
during our operation.
Ardis threw a tight net of control over her burgeoning
emotions.She allowed her aura to drift
back toward its neutral lavender, though she left it streaked with the colors
of fear, curiosity, and a more than healthy respect for the First General.Of
course, Director Prime.I admit I was
rather . . . taken aback.May I ask what
operation I was unwittingly a part of?
The woman who had practically built the security
ministry from the mud up showed an aura full of sunny indulgence.Ardis had heard she had a sense of
humor.
Our
intelligence has led us to believe human operatives have been meeting here at
the Venue for some time to exchange information and so on.We have been following this man for several
solar cycles.We believe he made contact
with someone here tonight to receive sensitive information from inside the
government.
No!Ardis made certain her aura reflected her shock.Were
you also able to catch his contact?
The First General’s aura darkened with smug
certainty.That information will be forthcoming.Never fear.
Ardis inclined her head and deepened her aura with the
magenta of respect.She studied the
crumpled figure of the human awaiting the final attention of the Thranes.He lifted his head a fraction to glance at
her.She met his eyes for a tiny slice
of time and looked away.No one
noticed.But Ardis knew.They would learn nothing from this man.He would be dead before they returned to the
CMS headquarters less than a kilometer from the Venue.He had been trained to break open a blister
inserted in his skin and release a deadly poison in the event he was
taken.From the look he had given her,
he had already done his duty.
Her life—and the conspiracy—were safe.
Donna S.
Frelick is a founding member of the SFR Brigade. She was an RWA® Golden Heart® Double Finalist in 2012 for
the first two novels in her SFR Interstellar Rescue series. She lives on 43 beautiful mountain acres in North Carolina
with her husband and two talkative cats. Find her at http://donnasfrelick.com;
blogging at http://spacefreighters.blogspot.com; on Facebook
at http://www.facebook.com/DonnaSFrelickAuthor and
on Twitter @DonnaSFrelick.
It's been a long time coming (six years since the first words and nearly four years since book one first released) but I'm pleased to say Keir's Fall - Book Two of the Redemption series - is finally out. Woo hoo!
Blurb:
It's been a year in paradise for Keir and Quin, but now the idyll is over. After Quin falls sick, they return to the hidden sanctuary of Lyagnius, and what she learns there will not only change their lives, but set them on a journey that could separate them forever.
When Keir falls victim to a ruthless Nercaandi Empress bent on conquering the galaxy with her cybernetic army, it will take all Quin's diminishing powers and the help of her son to find him. But what waits for her aboard the tyrant's ship will test her strength and the limits of their love, and put everything she cares about at risk. Including Keir.
With the galaxy itself about to fall, will she be able to save him?
Book Two of the Redemption series and part of the Travellers Universe.
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And to celebrate I'm running a Goodreads giveaway for a print edition of book one - Keir - an award winning time travel romance. It's open internationally until the 7th January.
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