I’ve decided to change up these weekly snippets and go through my backlist, sharing the first meeting between the two main characters in each book. It’s always fun for me to revisit the books and I hope it will be for you too! Or if you’ve never happened to read a certain book, maybe I can entice you into giving it a try.

DAEGAN is one of my favorite Badari Alphas and he’s in the new book I’m writing as a supporting character so I decided to do his book this week. Flo is undercover at a secret lab where the alien scientists do their horrific experiments. Her mission is to find an Alpha who wants to remain hidden and persuade him to join the resistance.

The excerpt:

The room was like a pavilion, open on three sides under a rustic-looking thatched roof, with benches scattered here and there. Flo paused, taking in the chaotic scene. There were easily sixty Badari already gathered in the space and the men were an overwhelming presence. Quickly she scanned the crowd but didn’t see anyone she thought fit the description of the Alpha. A few men were sitting on benches along the sides and her gaze kept returning to one man, all by himself. His long black hair blew in the breeze and his face was a blank mask as he watched the women.

That’s an Alpha.

She couldn’t have said exactly why she was so sure except this one soldier reminded her of Aydarr. There was a sensation of immense power contained for the moment but ready to be unleashed.

“You will get to know the soldiers and begin to form an opinion of who you might choose for your first pair bond,” said the senior lab tech. He stepped away and the guards took up positions, their wary stance and weapons held at the ready making it clear the human and the Badari prisoners needed to be on their best behavior.

Flo cut through the crowd and walked along the edge of the pavilion. The Badari attention was focused on the group of women clustered together and no one paid her much heed. She sat on the bench beside the man she’d focused on and leaned back with an easy air. “Probably not the best idea this Khagrish scientist ever had.” She made sure to speak Basic, not Badari, which would be a dead giveaway.

He stared at her, his expression revealing nothing of his thoughts.

Gesturing at the crowd, with three Badari for every woman, she said, “Too unwieldy, too intimidating for the women having all these musclebound guys try to talk to them at the same time.”

She thought he wasn’t going to answer her.

When he did, his voice was matter of fact, although he watched her with narrowed eyes. “Yet you don’t appear to be intimidated.”

Satisfied he was intrigued, she adopted a light tone and gestured at the crowd. “Well, I took myself out of the melee.”

DAEGAN: A BADARI WARRIORS SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL (SECTORS NEW ALLIES SERIES BOOK 10)

Ex-Special Forces soldier and mercenary Flo Michetti is bored with her assignment as a pilot for the genetically engineered Badari pack in their fight against the evil Khagrish scientists. She jumps at the chance to take a dangerous undercover mission. She infiltrates a group of human prisoners on their way to a secret lab in the southern ocean, where the Badari believe many more of their own kind have been created and are being experimented on. Once Flo has located the lab, found the Alpha among the Badari there and sent a report back, the plan will be to attack and rescue all the prisoners.

Arriving at the island Flo learns the true nature of the horrific experiment for which the humans have been brought to this remote location. Time will be perilously short to escape before it’s too late for all of them. She has to locate the Alpha of this captive southern pack, who conceals his identity to escape death at the hands of the Khagrish, and get him to join with her and her allies.

Daegan feels an instant attraction to Flo when the Badari and the humans are forced together by the Khagrish scientists, but there are mysteries and questions surrounding her. Before he reveals himself as the incognito Alpha she’s seeking, he wants answers to allay his doubts. He also wants Flo in his bed…but can he risk his heart to claim her as his mate?

Complicating the situation is a dangerous rival for Daegan’s position as Alpha, an oncoming hurricane and Flo’s resistance to abandoning her life as a soldier of fortune…as the Khagrish scientists prepare to initiate the experiment, the clock is ticking for humans and Badari alike.

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