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!)

I’m now taking excerpts from my recently published book in the award winning Badari Warriors series, REEDE’S MISSION TO THE SECTORS. It can be read as a standalone (mild spoilers for first book, REEDE.)

Continuing with Fallyn’s quest to buy a used spaceship…

The excerpt (Damin is the salesperson and he’s just named his price for the Roxy):

With relief Fallyn thought she could negotiate his opening number down to a sum she could afford and countered. Damin pretended to be horrified she expected him to basically give her such a prime little ship and quoted his next price with much grumbling and practiced blather about how the fact she was a veteran and he respected her service was making him take leave of his senses. Negotiation was one of her core skills and Fallyn was at ease with Vallington so she ignored his hyperbole.

“Why do you want to sell her to me so badly? What’s the fatal flaw I’m missing?” she asked.

Eyeing her as he considered his answer, Damin nodded. “Fair question. Don’t worry, the Roxy’s not a clunker. Told you my reputation matters to me more than any one sale and I meant it. Honestly? The previous owner made so many damn customizations like the pretty rosebushes you were admiring in hydroponics and a few other much more serious idiosyncrasies—all of which are fully detailed in the information file I gave you access to—that my crew is going to have to spend a lot of time ripping out and redoing. No offense but more experienced mercs aren’t going to give the Roxy a second glance even then. She’s a good ship for a novice in the trade.” He raised one hand in case she was going to protest. “Not saying you don’t have extensive military experience but you are starting as a rookie mercenary.”

Not offended in the least, especially as she actually had no plans to pursue the mercenary career, Fallyn nodded and waited.

“So if I can turn her over right away, as is, it’s a win-win for me. I’ll make my month end sales goals too.” Damin sat back in his chair and waited like a fisherman who knows he’s cast an irresistible lure.

VS: And will Fallyn go for it? Next week we’ll see…

REEDE’S MISSION TO THE SECTORS: A BADARI WARRIORS SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL (SECTORS NEW ALLIES SERIES BOOK 15) by Veronica Scott

Reede’s people sent him to the Sectors on a desperate mission to beg for help against overwhelming odds in their battle to destroy the alien scientists who created them centuries ago. He knew the task wasn’t going to be easy but as a Badari Warrior, he vowed to do his best. When he’s arrested by the border patrol and thrown in the brig, things go from bad to worse. He faces difficult choices ahead and unimaginable obstacles to making his case to the authorities for help.

Fallyn is Reede’s human fated mate but also the active duty military scout who guided him to the Sectors from his own planet. Reede’s choices after his arrest put her in a difficult spot and his actions threaten their mate bond. Will she give up her career to help him and the Badari succeed in making a treaty with the Sectors?

The desperate attempt to find new allies takes Reede and Fallyn on a wild set of adventures across the sprawling interstellar Sectors civilization and places them, their friends and their love in harm’s way.

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