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May be edited a bit from published version.

Taking excerpts now from my new release, TRATUS, a scifi romance novel.

From the beginning of the novel: 

Tratus always questioned his own sanity when he voluntarily walked into a Khagrish lab complex. Of course he was following Briator, the Alpha of his Tzibir pack and therefore really had no choice. The Alpha’s decrees were not to be challenged and Briator had gambled the lives of his entire pack on the alliance he’d made with the alien scientists who created them.

Watching his Alpha greet Dr. Ghazhing, the Chief Scientist, like an old friend, turned his stomach but Tratus was good at maintaining a stoic expression and giving away nothing of his true feelings. How could Briator disregard the years of experiments, torture and death the Tzibir had been subjected to, along with the other two Badari packs, to make common cause with the Khagrish now?

Not for the first time, Tratus wished they’d made an alliance with Jill Garrison the day she freed them from the original lab. Life would be very different.  Briator had assumed the human and her mate Aydarr would fail in their rebellion and quickly be recaptured so he refused to ally with them. Instead of proving him right, the other Badari were doing a creditable job of destroying labs, freeing human prisoners and remaining out of the reach of the Khagrish. All of which added up to victory in Tratus’s mind. Those other Badari were free…and he was still tethered to their masters.

TRATUS: A BADARI WARRIORS SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL (SECTORS NEW ALLIES SERIES BOOK 14) by Veronica Scott

Katrin Rodgerr, ex-Space Navy, was perfectly happy as Third Officer on a tramp freighter in the Outer Sectors, until the day she and everyone on board the ship were kidnapped by alien scientists to become subjects of gruesome experiments. Far away from home or help, Katrin does her best to bolster the other prisoners’ morale and look for a way to escape.

Until one day she’s chosen for an experiment of another sort – given to a pack of alien supersoldiers as a prospective breeder.

Tratus, senior enforcer of the Tzibir pack, never expected to find his mate, much less to meet her among the human prison population of the labs. But there she is and there’s no denying the instincts. Despite his Alpha’s objections, Tratus manages to convince the alien scientists to give Katrin to him and he vows to protect her. Deeply unhappy with the way his leader runs the pack as he disobeys all their goddess’s commandments and refuses to ally with other Badari packs to fight the scientists who created them, Tratus plots a revolt.

Despite herself Katrin is drawn to the giant humanoid warrior with alien predator DNA who treats her so respectfully. His scales and other differences from human males only make him more attractive in his own way. But the Alpha distrusts her and Tratus, and time is running out for them both…Can Tratus defeat the Alpha leading his pack to inevitable doom? Can he and Katrin survive the consequences and find their way to claiming each other as true mates or must he let her go?

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