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Sergeant Ike Payne: Cop, aspiring author, Marine. Ike has it
all: Power, respect, friendship, and the only career she's ever wanted. She
also has a locked room murder attempt and 24,000 suspects.
She has everything, except real love.
As tensions mount to solve the crime, Ike is thrown together
with Devon, a young Lieutenant, to find the terrorist killers and protect the
crew and civilians aboard His Majesty's Star Ship Boone.
Ike and Devon's passions rise as the terrorists take over the
computers controlling the ship and begin a rampage of death and destruction that
pulls Ike and Devon, alone and out-gunned, into a deadly confrontation with the
leader of the terrorists.
Their survival depends on their love. Can the love of Payne
overcome the fanatical terrorists?
Ike's life is complicated. She's the Marine General in charge
of security for His Majesty's Starship Boone. Her husband, Devon, is suffering
problems with his memory since he was injured in the battle with the Palean
Liberation Front a year ago. Ike has to escort the spoiled Princess Miranda to
Nerumie to settle a civil war.
Just when things might take a turn for the better, their ship
crashes in the deep desert. The crash strands Ike, Devon, Miranda, and Sergeant
Jack Ingram with little food and less water. The temperature swings from half
that of boiling water to far below freezing, and killer animals stalk them in
the darkness and from the skies.
Attraction, love, and lust weave a web through the group as
they deal with their growing feelings for each other. Discoveries of hidden
feelings made under the orange sun of Nerumie cause tempers to flair. Passions
rage between the four, testing devotion and love to the limits as they fight
for survival in the desert heat.
A passionate, spoiled princess. A brilliant intelligence
officer. A tough marine.
Princess Allison, the coddled daughter of the Emperor of
Mankind, is irreparably disturbed by the vicious war with the cat-like
Arupians. Her social life is in shambles. Her friends are all on duty. Allie
spends her days teaching old American history at the University or else hiding
out in the royal Safe Room.
Then two fascinating men enter her life.
Second Lieutenant Damon Hyde is a swaggering and respected
marine. Most people think he's fearless—except for Allie, who falls for his
vulnerability.
Lieutenant JG Harrison Douglas is brilliant. Most people
think he's also crazy—except for Allie, who is drawn to his eccentricity.
Brought together by fate, Allie falls in love, torn between
the two men who love her and fight to win her. As new and disparate emotions
blossom, Allie, Damon, and Harry are pulled into a passionate, polyamorous
relationship. The three are forced to come to terms with their love for one
another as they rely on their wits and skills, not only for their own survival,
but also for all mankind on His Majesty's Star Ship Boone.
Lieutenant Star Hawking, a young diplomat on her first
assignment, doesn't feel very confident in leading the mission she's drawn, but
she knows what she has to do. Pressed for time for more than a year, her career
has taken precedence over her personal life. Then from out of nowhere, two
males enter her world.
Major Jake "Spence" Spencer has been a Marine for a
long time, and he's played the field. A lot. One day, he notices that his
feelings for a woman have changed, and it puzzles him. He finds this woman
eclipses all others he's known, but exactly why eludes him.
Krell, an alien diplomat, has much to hide about the society
on his planet and the plans the Council of Elders has for Daedalus and her
crew. The survival of Krell's people depends on stealth and deceit. But when
Krell falls for a human woman, he discovers all may not be as it seems on his
world.
Shane Rawls has been a marine for sixty years. She's seen a
lot in that time, but she's never seen real knights and dragons, though,
especially the delicious Sir Landis and Sir Clemmons. As she finds herself
attracted to the two men, Shane falls into the clutches of the evil king of the
dragons.
Sir Clemmons and Sir Landis have a war to fight. The lizards
are killing people, including Landis' wife, and now they have kidnapped the
beautiful woman from the stars who has enchanted them both.
Shane, Landis, and Clemmons must deal with their attraction
all while trying to stay alive and end a war that has cost the lives of
countless men and dragons. Can the three survive the evils of this medieval
world? Can they overcome the limits of their feelings and find love in the
aftermath?
For Elektra, the four-thousand-year-old vampire of Stanley
Markinson's Bloodlust novels, reverberations of love, passion, and death move
among the shadows that connect the past, present, and the future. When Roland,
a one-time porn director whose films now knock at the door of the big time,
decides to make a movie based on the series, he takes his production team,
which includes his wife Valerie, on a whirlwind tour of the world to capture
the essence of the locations mentioned in the books. Their first stop: a remote
Scottish castle and the village in the valley below to imitate the Scotland of
the fourteenth century.
While scouting the location, Roland notices Valerie becoming
distracted, remote. He knows Markinson, who is accompanying the team, unsettles
her with his hauntingly quiet movements and his avoidance of using contractions
in his speech. Is that all that is bothering her? Even he cannot shake the
feeling that something is brewing beneath the surface, something that, at
times, makes it seem as though she is a different person.
For Elektra, the four-thousand-year-old vampire of Stanley
Markinson's Bloodlust novels, reverberations of love, passion, and death move
among the shadows that connect the past, present, and the future. When Roland,
a one-time porn director whose films now knock at the door of the big time,
decides to make a movie based on the series, he takes his production team,
which includes his wife Valerie, on a whirlwind tour of the world to capture
the essence of the locations mentioned in the books.
In this installment, the team is in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the
hallowed ground of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. Valerie wasn't alive
then, has only read about and seen maps and photographs of events of that
fateful day. Then how can she so vividly imagine the Japanese planes flying in
over the harbor, know the names of aircraft she otherwise could not identify?
What—or who—is affecting her? When she scans the horizon, why, at times, does
she feel as though she is a different person?