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.
I’m taking excerpts now from RENNYR, my new release and nook two in my scifi romance gladiator series. KYDEN had been in the gladiator system for many years, understood it well and had risen to the top, although he was still enslaved. RENNYR is brand new to it all.
The books can be read as standalones.
The excerpt from the beginning of the book:
Rennyr came awake in one sudden convulsive motion, fangs and claws deployed, ready to take any action required. Only to find himself brought up short by heavy chains on his wrists and ankles. He shook his head as if gnats were buzzing around him, trying to clear the fog in his mind, slowing his thinking.
Where the hell am I? What kind of afterlife is this?
He reached out mentally for his brothers only to be met with a blank wall, as if he was shouting into an empty room in an abandoned house. Range of motion severely limited by the chains, he rubbed his chest where the pack bond should have been and…simply wasn’t. There was no pain but an unsettling void where something precious had always been. Ever since he first came to consciousness in the lab of the scientists who created his kind, he’d been linked to his brothers.
Reality was beginning to intrude on his mind. Wherever he’d been placed was extremely noisy and people bustled here and there.
After two attempts Rennyr made it to his feet, clinging to the bars of the cage containing him. He gave an experimental tug on the metal but the enclosure was substantial. Next he examined the chains on his wrists and ankles, going cold when he realized he no longer wore the Khagrish neuro controller. The black bracelet had been surgically implanted on his arm since he was created but now was gone.
VS: More next week…
RENNYR (BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK 2) by Veronica Scott
Rennyr was a genetically engineered senior soldier in his Badari Warrior pack until one day he woke up on a strange planet naked, disoriented and about to be sold into the gladiator arena for the rest of his life. Unscrupulous guards faked his death in the lab where he was created and sold him into slavery in the galaxy’s hinterlands. Kill or be killed is the rule in his new life and a Badari never gives up. He’ll fight to stay alive until the Badari goddess sees fit to decree his death and release him from the wretched existence.
Jaine Mitchel of the Sectors was on her way to an exciting research internship until pirates seized the spaceship on which she was a passenger and took her to feature in a gladiator ‘death match’ in the galactic hinterlands. She has no hope of surviving in the arena until a man she only glimpsed in passing breaks out of his cell and saves her life, declaring her to be his fated mate. Given to Rennyr as his reward for winning the death match, Jaine must share a cell and a bed with the handsome, not human, gladiator and together they have to find a way to survive in this merciless world of violence and death. Their mutual attraction is off the charts. Falling in love is the easy part, finding a way to escape or even to remain together is the challenge. At any time their mutual owner could decide thumbs up or thumbs down on one or both of them, or sell them separately.
Their only hope is a mysterious gladiator master from offworld who may be coming to buy Rennyr. Will he take Jaine as well? Could Rennyr win freedom for them both if he does well enough in the arena? Badari Warriors claim their mates for life and Rennyr has no intention of losing Jaine…RENNYR is an 80K word novel and can be read as a standalone. KYDEN is the first book in the series.
That’s quite a situation to wake up to! Great introduction to Rennyr and his story!
Ooh, very interesting. This would not be a pleasant situation to wake up to.
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I guess the ease of commenting couldn’t last forever! Sorry if this is a duplicate. I don’t envy Rennyr waking up in this situation. It would be quite unsettling.
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Yikes, that’s not a good situation to be in. Where is he and is he going to get away?
I love that first line. Ready to take any action required. Very evocative and shows how these guys must always be ready for the unexpected. Or even the expected.
Gill
Freed from one master only to be bound to another. Nice intro!!
Great description of his awakening. Shouldn’t he be glad to be free of the neuro controller?
It’s a sign to him that he’s been permanently taken away from his planet and his pack…
Gripping introduction.
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I can’t imagine his devastation when he reached out to his brothers and found nothing. For a pack creature, he must feel so alone.
I could feel his confusion and shock of not be connected to his brothers. How terrifying to feel alone. Great intro to your character.
Another new release … Congratulations! I liked the intro. 🙂
I love how he’s not letting confusion get in the way of assessing his situation.
Great intro. The emptiness he must be feeling…
I feel so bad for him! What a rude awakening in such awful circumstances. And the beginning of your story sucks me right into Rennyr’s world!