Star Crossed
7 Novels of Space Exploration, Alien Races, Adventure, and Romance
Christine Pope
C. Gockel
Carol VanNatta
Lindsay Buroker
Mark Cooper
Patty Jansen
Salvador Mercer
C. Gockel
Contents
About The Books
Blood Will Tell
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Archangel Down
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Overload Flux
1. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.026 *
2. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.027 *
3. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.028 *
4. * Planet: Gasprélodid Prime * GDAT 3237.028 *
5. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.029 *
6. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.032 *
7. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.034 *
8. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.035 *
9. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.036 *
10. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.036 *
11. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.037*
12. * Interstellar: “Berjalan” Ship Day 01 * GDAT 3237.038 *
13. * Interstellar: “Berjalan” Ship Day 02 * GDAT 3237.039 *
14. * Interstellar: “Berjalan” Ship Day 04 * GDAT 3237.041*
15. * Planet: Insche 255C * GDAT 3237.041*
16. * Planet: Insche 255C * GDAT 3237.042 *
17. * Planet: Insche 255C * GDAT 3237.043 *
18. * Planet: Insche 255C * GDAT 3237.044 *
19. * Planet: Insche 255C * GDAT 3237.044 *
20. * Planet: Insche 255C * GDAT 3237.044 *
21. * Interstellar: “Beehive” Ship Day 01 * GDAT 3237.044 *
22. * Interstellar: “Beehive” Ship Day 02 * GDAT 3237.045 *
23. * Interstellar: “Beehive” Ship Day 02 * GDAT 3237.045 *
24. * Interstellar: “Beehive” Ship Day 02 * GDAT 3237.045 *
25. * Interstellar: “Beehive” Ship Day 02 * GDAT 3237.045 *
26. * Interstellar: “Khong Met Moi” * GDAT 3237.047 *
27. * Interstellar: “Padrashan Librero” * GDAT 3237.047 *
28. * Interstellar: “Padrashan Librero” * GDAT 3237.048 *
29. * Interstellar: “Padrashan Librero” * GDAT 3237.049 *
30. * Planet: Rekoria * GDAT 3237.157*
Epilogue
Star Nomad
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Epilogue
The Iron Admiral: Conspiracy
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Hurricane Moon
Acknowledgments
Credits
1. Judgment Day
2. Glass Time
3. Vandal Stars
4. Valley Of Dilemma
5. Halo
6. Aeon
7. Damages
8. Planetfall
9. Landfall
10. Twilight
11. Night
12. The Brightness Before The Dawn
13. Unity Base
14. Raining Blue
15. Kite
16. New Moon
17. Field Day
18. Winter
19. Blue Time
20. Meltwaters
21. High Tide
22. Nightmare
23. The Thirteenth Hour
24. Blue’s Mountain
25. Commemoration
26. Night Circles
27. Morning Prayer
28. Lost Soul
29. Eclipse
30. Ionbow
31. The Helices Of Crisis
32. Spring Tide
The Key
Acknowledgments
I. Part One
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
II. Part Two
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
III. Part Three
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
IV. Part Four
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Epilogue
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About The Books
Blood Will Tell - Christine Pope
When hacker Miala Fels makes a deal to split the hoard of a dead crime lord with the notorious mercenary Eryk Thorn, events take an unexpected turn....
Archangel Down - C. Gockel
Commander Noa Sato is arrested and interrogated for her part in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about. Professor James Sinclair awakes in the snow knowing only that he must find Noa, a woman he’s never met. In the face of genocide they must hatch a daring plan with a ragtag crew to save the lives of millions—and their own. Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission: The archangel is down.
Overload Flux - Carol Van Natta
Someone is stealing the vaccine for a galaxy-wide pandemic. Investigator Luka Foxe’s hidden mental talent is out of control, and security specialist Mairwen Morganthur hides a dark past. On a convoluted trail of corrupt pharma corporations, murderous mercenaries, sabotage, and deadly space battles, their only hope for survival lies in trusting one another.
Star Nomad - Lindsay Buroker
The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold.
The Iron Admiral: Conspiracy - Greta van der Rol
Thrust together in a race against time, ex-Admiral Chaka Saahren and Systems Engineer Allysha Marten, must resolve their personal differences to prevent an inter-species war.
Hurricane Moon - Alexis Glynn Latner
With Earth wracked by climate change, an ambitious private foundation launches a starship to discover a new world. The astronauts and scientists of Aeon are prepared to cope with every known outcome and every foreseeable unknown. But what they encounter on the other side of the stars is the unknown unknown.
The Key - Pauline Baird Jones
The key will unlock more than an unknown civilization; it will define who one woman will become….Elite pilot, Sara Donovan and resistance fighter, Kiernan Fyn must stop those that would use the key for their own agenda. Don't miss out on this Independent Book Bronze Medal and Dream Realm Awards Winner!
Blood Will Tell
The Gaian Consortium Series, Book 1
Welcome to Iradia, where the Gaian Consortium looks the other way if enough money changes hands, and the best way to ensure a long life is to secure passage off-world....
When Miala Fels’ father is murdered by a vicious crime lord, she decides the best way to get her revenge is to hack the accounts of the man responsible and bleed his hoard of ill-gotten loot dry. Her plans go awry when Mast is killed by a rival, and she ends up nursing one of his men, the notorious mercenary Eryk Thorn, back to health. Her only thought is to have Thorn help her get off-world in exchange for half of Mast’s treasure. The last thing she expects is to lose her heart to him...or to have the consequences of that love change her life forever.
IRADIA
1
They had been gone far too long, that much she knew. Although there were no chronos in the compound’s kitchens, Miala had trained herself to make a rough estimate of the passage of time without any visual aids. She knew that at least four, and possibly closer to five, hours had to have passed since Arlen Mast and his various lackeys and hangers-on had enthusiastically sallied forth en masse to watch the baiting and eventual deaths of his latest batch of prisoners. “Cheaper to kill ’em than to feed ’em!” he’d guffawed, and everyone had laughed at his wit, or at least pretended to.
Except Miala. Unlike the others, she had no stomach for that sort of thing. The compound had emptied down to the lowliest kitchen drudge—except for her. She had a knack for hiding in shadows, making herself easily overlooked, and so no one gone in search of her when she vanished into one of the larders as everyone else was hastening out the rear entrance of the building and into their various sand-skimmers and all-terrain transports. At the time she had only thanked God that she would have a few hours of uninterrupted time to resume her careful hacking into Mast’s security system.
That fat bastard would probably have had a long-overdue heart attack if he knew how far she had already gotten, but she was careful to cover her tracks. Anyhow, she knew the basics of the system well enough; it was her father who had programmed it, after all, and he had trained Miala in the tricks of his trade. Good thing that Mast hadn’t bothered to investigate Lestan Fels closely enough to discover that Iradia’s best hacker had a daughter, let alone one who rivaled her father in her ways with a security system. No, Mast had thought himself very clever to hire Fels and then have him killed once the security system was in place. He hadn’t thought that there was anyone on this miserable rock who would even notice the hacker’s death, let alone bother to avenge it.
She’d come here two months earlier, already aware of what had probably happened to her father, and she’d been careful to come disguised. Mast’s lechery was legendary, and Miala, after carefully regarding her reflection before setting out, had come to the dispassionate conclusion that she was just pretty enough to attract attention if she didn’t do something to alter her appearance. Nothing drastic, of course, but it was amazing what deliberately dirty hair pulled back in a severe knot, a few carefully applied blemishes, and exaggerated shadows under one’s eyes could do to make a person look absolutely unappealing. Even so, she’d been on the receiving end of a few nastily significant glances from Barris Jax, Mast’s self-styled majordomo and right-hand man. She counted herself lucky that it hadn’t gone any further than that—and perhaps his unhealthy interest was what had led him to hire her in the first place.
But now—she settled back on her heels and sighed. She’d made good progress during the past few hours and felt confident that, given a little more time, she would finally be able to hack the codes that protected Mast’s vaults and gain access to the treasures she knew he hoarded there. Of course she would never be able to bring her father back, but at least she could steal his murderer blind and finally get herself away from this forsaken planet once and for all. And while her main goal was to gain access to Mast’s off-world accounts, she’d be a fool not to take as much cash from his vaults as she could. The amount she could carry would certainly not be enough for him to ever notice.
The silence around her was disturbing. She knew the compound as well as anyone, but it was an unsettling place even when fully occupied and somehow much worse when it was apparently deserted, as it seemed now. What could possibly have happened? There had been whispers that one of the other crime bosses had been planning to make a move on Mast, but treachery among the bosses was as expected on Iradia as its frequent sandstorms, and Mast had laughed off the rumors, claiming there was no one in the region who could possibly get the drop on him.