Here’s the link to the Weekend Writing Warriors central page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…a fun way to sample new books and find new authors! (Also welcome to the Sunday Snippet visitors!)
May be edited a bit from published version.
Sharing excerpts from STAR CRUISE: RETURN VOYAGE, my full length novel in the Pets In Space 5 anthology for 2020! My next Badari Warriors novel JAMOKAN is in edits now but with the holidays coming, not sure exactly when I’ll release it. Hopefully in the next two weeks! So probably only another one or two snippets more from this current book.
The excerpt: Gianna was harassed by a conspiracy theorist passenger. Trevor arrives after the incident is over.
“He’s not the most unbalanced conspiracy theorist I’ve ever met, let me put it that way. Verlaine was close to biting him and then I’d have been in trouble with the captain. And the jerk would have sued me no doubt. I only want him and any others like him to leave me alone,” Gianna said.
“Oh we can definitely arrange that.” Trevor sounded grim and she imagined the lieutenant carting Mr. Lanloring off to the brig. Surely the ship had a brig? “I’m not leaving you alone again, although I’m puzzled why you didn’t call me if you wanted to go out. The damn reports can wait. The queues of administrative work have waited weeks already. I was only tackling them to fill in my shift while you were supposed to be resting in your cabin.”
“I wanted to window shop and I didn’t want to bore you,” Gianna said as they proceeded toward her cabin. She raised the cream-and-blue shopping bag to show him. “There was an item I wanted to see at one of the shops we passed earlier today. Really, it was all fine. Verlaine enjoyed the outing, we had a nice chat with Juli, I spent lots of credits and had fun.”
He opened the suite portal for her and allowed her to walk past him. As he entered the room and saw the stack of shoe boxes which the ship’s robos must have delivered earlier, Trevor whistled and raised one eyebrow. “I guess you did have fun.”
PETS IN SPACE® 5 ANTHOLOGY BLURB:
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!
STAR CRUISE RETURN VOYAGE blurb: Gianna Nadenoft is a reclusive survivor of one of the worst interstellar cruise ship disasters in the history of the Sectors. Now a renowned artist, she hasn’t left her home planet in decades, not since returning there after the wreck as a traumatized three-year-old. With her service animal at her side, she’s going to attempt to travel across the star systems to attend her brother’s wedding and reunite with her fellow survivors.
Trevor Hanson is a security officer aboard the cruise liner Nebula Zephyr with his own traumatic past as a former Special Forces soldier and prisoner of war. He’s assigned to provide personal protection to Gianna during her time aboard the ship but soon finds his interest turning from professional to romantic.
Onboard the Nebula Zephyr, powerful enemies are watching Gianna and making plans to seize this rare opportunity to gain access to her and the secrets they believe she’s still keeping about the wreck. Can Trevor overcome his personal demons and rise to the occasion to save Gianna from the danger waiting on his ship, or will she slip through his fingers and suffer a terrible fate deferred from her last disastrous voyage?
While the situation could have been worse, it was good she did enjoy her outing. A very nice snippet!
nothing like a bit of shopping therapy 🙂
nothing like a bit of shopping therapy. 🙂 Nice snippet.
Were all of her purchases shoes? She must really like to take care of her feet!
I don’t think I’ve ever used fun and shopping in the same sentence(unless it was at a bookstore). Glad she enjoyed her outing though. Nice snippet.
Sounds like it was fun for her, and perfect timing after an incident. Nice snippet!
Shoes, glorious shoes! There’s no kind of shopping that I enjoy more! 😀 Great snippet, Veronica, and congrats on the anthology!
Glad to see shoe shopping has no boundaries in time and space. Fun snippet.
I’m glad she enjoys shopping for shoes. I have difficulty finding ones that fit.
I’m glad she had fun, but I doubt if the annoying conspiracy guy is just going to go away.
Wish I could see what the latest fashions in space shoes look like!
Thanks for visiting and commenting! Shopping probably seems a bit frivolous here but the point was made earlier in the book that Gianna is a virutal recluse on her home planet and must have a large security detail if she leaves the grounds so she’s feeling more free and happier on board the ship. She can do simple things like shopping (and overdo it, with all the shoes LOL). Things wil ltake a darker turn soon enough in the novel and the cruise…
I think I’d rather deal with a dozen conspiracy guys than shop for shoes, but I’m glad she enjoyed her spree.
Retail therapy transcends all universes!!
Lol – He’s not the most unbalanced conspiracy theorist I’ve ever met – yikes!!!
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New shoes. That’s fix almost anything.
It sounds like she had a very good time before the jerk showed up.
Shopping is great therapy. 🙂