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.

Last snippet from STAR CRUISE: TIME LOOP,  which is in the Pets in Space 6 anthology. Next week I’m switching to my new release KYDEN: BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK ONE (details below excerpt).

Excerpt: I’ve jumped ahead to the end of the first time Raelyn lives through the day and then the first morning when she awakens:

She was buffeted by a force so powerful she couldn’t stand, couldn’t think, couldn’t breathe—heat enveloped her, light blinded her…and the Nebula Zephyr blew up. There was no time for a final thought…

CHAPTER THREE

Five perfectly modulated crystalline notes, designed to bring the deepest sleeper to consciousness with no disruption…

With a gasp Raelyn sat upright, heart pounding. Hand on her chest where she felt her heart beating way too fast, she took a deep breath and stared wildly around her cabin. Eyn chittered at her from a precarious perch atop the door frame, evidently frightened by her dramatic awakening.

“Oh thank the Lords of Space, I must have been dreaming,” she said, collapsing into her pillows. “What a nightmare!”

Carefully she coaxed Eyn to come sit on her arm, which he did eventually and then she got up to have her morning synthcaff and get ready for the day. As she went past the table she saw her carryall was open and various items were strewn around the surface.

“You’ve been searching for treasures again, haven’t you?” she said to the pet, stroking his head gently. “Sorry, nothing for you this trip.”

Raelyn took one more step and stopped, pivoting to survey the mess on the table again. Where was the glass globe? She pushed aside the various items without finding what she sought and knelt carefully on the deck to search under the table, also to no avail. “I did buy the damn thing, didn’t I? I know I did. Of course in my dream you broke it and I had to pay Maeve to decontaminate because of the weird smelling air inside it.”

Eyn hopped from her shoulder and made a circle on the table where Raelyn had expected the glass ornament to be. He uttered small anxious trills and seemed to be looking for something. Watching the moyed, she got goosebumps but shook them off.

Realizing she was going to be late, Raelyn rose to her feet and proceeded into the bathroom but the issue of the globe bothered her. She was positive she’d paid the vendor twenty credits but where was the damn ornament? Had there been sleight of hand? Or a pickpocket? But why would anyone steal a quaint glass ornament? “Because for sure it wasn’t any Ancient Observer relic,” she told Eyn. “Lucky for you, since you broke it. Well, only in my dream apparently.”

VS: I hate to tell her but this is not a dream or a drill. If you’re curious to know more, the book is avaiable on all major ebook platforms!

The book blurb:

Raelyn Cantorini, senior stewardess on the interstellar cruise ship Nebula Zephyr thinks the alien artifact she bought on the last planet the ship visited was just a pretty glass orb…until her pet Eyn knocked the ornament off a table, shattering it and sending her into an infinitely repeating time loop.

Stuck reliving the same day over and over, Raelyn has only hours to try to save the ship and everyone on board from dying in a terrible catastrophe. As she tries to solve the mystery of what happens to the ship right before midnight each time the day repeats, Raelyn meets Kev Stevens, the former Special Forces soldier turned actor and finds herself falling in love with him. Each time the day repeats, she learns more about him while he has no memory of her. Can she persuade him they’ve met before? Will he trust her enough to help stop the Nebula Zephyr’s destruction?

And if they do save the ship, will that reset time for Raelyn?

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KYDEN: BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK ONE by Veronica Scott

Kyden is the top ranked gladiator in the Five Systems but he’s hardly there by choice. Unscrupulous guards faked his death in the lab where he was created and sold him into slavery in the galaxy’s hinterlands. He has no idea where his home is or how many years have passed since he was condemned to a life of endless combat. Kill or be killed is the rule and a Badari never gives up. He’ll fight to stay alive until the Badari goddess sees fit to decree his death.

Elara Vasclavian is the daughter of a senator, as far removed from the life of a gladiator as a noblewoman can be until through the machinations of a political enemy, she ends up in terrible jeopardy. Abducted and given to a group of drunken gladiators for their amusement the night before the games, Elara vows to put up a fight but there’s no real hope of saving herself. Until Kyden steps in, responding to the goddess’s commandment to protect those who are smaller and weaker. And discovers she’s his fated mate.

Rescued, Elara returns to her life of privilege but she can’t forget the man who saved her life. The gulf between their places in the Five Systems is unbridgeable, no matter how much Kyden longs for even a glimpse of her in the arena audience. No matter how much she feels the pull to be by his side. As matters stand, they cannot be together…Or can they?

KYDEN is the first book in a new series, spun off from my ongoing Badari Warriors series. Kyden is a Generation Five Badari whereas the main characters in the long running series are from a later time and are Generation Eight. This new series stands alone and you don’t have to have read any of the other books to enjoy this one. I couldn’t resist the temptation to tell a few other Badari stories, set in the galaxy’s Hinterlands, and who can resist gladiators?

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