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Sharing now from my newly released scifi romance Aydarr (A Badari Warriors SciFi Romance Novel): Sectors New Allies Series Book 1. Yup, a mouthful LOL!
Continuing on directly from last week’s excerpt. A little creative editing and punctuation have been done to fit our rules.
The excerpt:
She teetered on the edge of the sinkhole or pit, but her precarious state of vertigo betrayed her. Screaming, she half slid, half fell into the deep hole, debris raining down with her.
Scrabbling at roots embedded in the wall as she fell, the flimsy vegetation snapping off in her hands, Jill managed to partially break her fall. Landing in a substantial mud puddle, she rose to her feet, staring upward, realizing there was no easy way to climb from the pit. At least the rain was tapering off.
A rumbling sound like an engine behind her made her pivot, to find two huge, faceted glowing eyes staring at her from a tunnel opening into the hole – a giant body lurked in the gloom. Jill retreated one step at a time to the opposite wall of the pit and snatched a loose rock from the small debris pile at her feet. Whitened bones were mixed in with the rocks on the pit floor next to the rainwater puddle. She shuddered and gripped her rock hard enough to make her hand sting.
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The book blurb:
Jill Garrison, a maintenance tech at the Sectors Amarcae 7 colony, goes to sleep one night as usual only to wake up in her nightgown stranded in the middle of a forest on an unknown world. There’s no time to think as she’s stalked by carnivorous predators and rescued by genetically engineered warriors calling themselves the Badari. Turns out they and she, along with her whole colony, are now prisoners of the Khagrish, a ruthless race of alien scientists. Working for enemies of the Sectors, the Khagrish have created the Badari to be super soldiers.
Aydarr, the Badari alpha, isn’t sure he can trust Jill but his attraction to her is undeniable. He impulsively claims her as his mate to prevent her death at the hands of the Khagrish.
Can he continue to protect her from the experiments already underway? Will his claiming her put his pack in jeopardy from their alien masters?
As Jill searches for a way to rescue her fellow humans and get them all to safety, she finds herself falling for Aydarr, despite the secrets he’s keeping. She has a few of her own.
The situation becomes dire when Aydarr and his pack are sent offplanet on a mission, leaving Jill unprotected, prey for the senior scientist. Can she escape the experiments he has in mind for her? Will she be able to thwart the Khagrish plans and liberate humans and Badari alike? How will she and Aydarr reunite?
Nice tense action scene. Rocks and bones. Yeah, I’d be feeling trapped too!
That’s a scary situation. I hope she can get out or fight the creature. Great scene. 🙂
Bones? Did you say bones? Eep. Great snippet, Veronica. 🙂
This is worthy of a scene from a horror novel.
OMG … well written … i have goosebumps …
Great scene-setting! I particularly like the discovery of the bones.
Two huge glowing eyes – hoping they are friendly eyes!!
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Great snippet! I wonder how she’s going to get out of there- things aren’t looking good!
She’s in a bad spot. I liked the rumble – it made me imagine a giant cat purring.
This is not a good situation. Very exciting snippet!
This definitely doesn’t seem like a good situation. Hope she finds a way out.
So intense. I can feel her fear. Good job.
Gaah! Just one terrible thing after another. And now we have to wait a week to find out what happens?? Oh wait, I guess I could go buy the book! You’re an evil genius, Veronica.
(Evil genius bats her eyes demurely. Who me?)
Yikes! Scary! Great scene!
Now would be a good time for the hero to put in an appearance, perhaps? I’m sure she can handle this beast with the big body, but why not share the fun? Can’t wait for the next installment! Excellent description of the fall. I felt dizzy!
Yes, Aydarr makes his appearance in the next few sentences LOL.
Oops, sounds like she’s just dropped in for dinner! Somehow I don’t think a hand-held piece of rock will be quite enough to deal with this. Scary.
I could feel every cut and scratch she is too occupied ty trying to survive to notice yet …
I missed signing in because I fell and broke my bone in my little body. Serious but it will heal and I will read, dear friend, Just give me a chance Many Hugs!
Oh, a very tense and exciting scene, vividly written!
Now that’s scary. Great scene.
Scary and intense scene!
Her day has just gone from bad to worse. It’s too much to hope that whatever it is isn’t hungry, I bet.
Well, there went my hopes for her to eventually find a way to scale the wall. Bones in a pit are never a good sign.