Title: Reconnaissance
Series: Paradise Reclaimed Book # 2
By: Aubrie Dionne
Expected Publication Date: May 1, 2013
Published By: Inkspell Publishing
Blurb
Nova
Williams has lost her one shot at Lieutenant hood and at love. Lieutenant
Crophaven has promoted her rival, Andromeda, all because her lifemate, Sirius,
sacrificed their mission to win back Andromeda’s love.
While sneaking out to prove Andromeda is a fake, Nova finds
an alien ship hovering over their colony. Lieutenant Crophaven assigns her to a
reconnaissance mission, giving her a second chance to redeem herself. Sirius
must fly her and a research team to the vessel to decide if they are a threat. Thrown
together with the lifemate that betrayed her, she battles with her own jealousy
while her team battles for their lives.
Can she forgive Sirius in order to save her team
and warn her colony?
Excerpt
A drone, as deep and low as the growl of a
primordial beast, resonated in my gut and I yanked my hand away. My heart sped
like someone had fired a starter gun to a race, and my chest tightened until I
couldn’t breathe.
That blaring blasphemy wasn’t from my ship.
The sound tapered off, leaving me in silence. I
stared at the bones, wondering if I’d imagined it, or if I should hide here in
the ruins in case the sound came back.
What
am I doing? I’m a team expedition leader, for crying out loud!
I pulled myself back together. Everyone else
was attending the ceremony on the ship. The thick hull, designed to protect us
from deep space, blocked all sounds from the outside world. I was the only one
who would have heard it. The only one who could investigate. I thought about
going back for help, but every second I delayed, the source of the sound could
disappear. Besides, I didn’t want the credit taken away from me. Not this time.
I scrambled to the window and climbed over the
ledge, throwing myself down so fast my ankles exploded in pain. Cursing, I
hobbled up the embankment of the excavation site. The sound boomed around me,
vibrating the crystals underneath my feet. I fell to my knees and covered my
ears. It reminded me of warping metal, growling monsters, and screeching alarms
all at the same time.
The sound came from the jungle. I pulled myself
up the incline and peered over the edge. A dry, fiery breeze blew my hair back,
and I looked above the rustling canopy.
My heart stammered then beat into a frenzy. A
massive ring of a ship, twice as large as the New Dawn, hovered over the jungle. Spires jutted from the top and
the bottom, like a two-sided pin cushion. Blinking reddish lights adorned the
ends. The hull was a dull gray shield of impenetrable metal with no sight
panels or markings of any kind.
The buzzing sound made my eardrums throb. I
pressed my nose up against the crystal ledge and peered over as my whole body
shook. The lowest spire, thick as a nuclear reactor, lengthened from the belly
of the ship until the tip hovered a meter from the jungle canopy. A trap door
opened, and a beam of white light seared a hole in the foliage. The smell of
burnt vines choked my throat, and I cowered against the side of the ledge.
I
have to warn the ship.
About the Author-Aubrie
grew up watching the original Star Wars movies over and over again until she
could recite and reenact every single scene in her backyard. She also loved The
Goonies, Star Trek the Next Generation-favorite character was Data by far-, and
Indiana Jones. But, her all time favorite movie was The Last Unicorn. She still
wonders why the unicorn decided to change back to a unicorn in the end.
Aubrie wrote in her junior high yearbook that she wanted to
be "A concert flutist" when she grew up. When she made that happen,
she decided one career was not enough and embarked as a fantasy, sci fi author.
Two careers seems to keep her busy. For now.
Now for the professional bio:
Aubrie Dionne is an author and flutist in New
England. Her writings have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade,
Emerald Tales, Hazard Cat, Moon Drenched Fables, A Fly in Amber, and Aurora
Wolf. Her books are published by Entangled Publishing, Lyrical Press, and Gypsy
Shadow Publishing. She recently signed her YA sci fi novel with Inkspell
Publishing titled: Colonization: Paradise Reclaimed, which will release in
October 2012. When she's not writing, Aubrie teaches flute and plays in
orchestras. She's a big Star Trek TNG fan, as well as Star Wars and Serenity.
Author Links
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15769793-colonization
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