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Word Count: 96000
Summary: Three women, two planets, and a whale. For Marianne Woolsey, linguist and tutor, being empathically bonded to the leader of the Tolari turns out to be a bed of roses – complete with thorns. Especially thorns. With diplomatic relations severed and humans kicked out of Tolari space, the Earth Fleet ship Alexander is gone … for now … but Earth Central Command hasn’t given up trying to get Marianne back. As she struggles with surprises, nightmares, and a bond-partner who can’t be tamed, she just wants to figure out where she fits in a society that isn’t quite human. Laura Howard, the Admiral’s widow, only desires to be left in peace to gather the fragments of a shattered heart, but Central Command has plans for her, too. Meanwhile, the Sural’s apothecary is a serene and gifted healer who knows what – and who – she wants. Circumstances have conspired to deny her the man she’s always loved, but in the pursuit of his heart, she has an unexpected ally – in the depths of Tolar’s oceans. Daughters of Suralia is a sweet scifi romance.
Word Count: 67000
Summary: Winner of the 2013 PRISM Award for Futuristic Romance When Earth Central Command tells you to travel 24 light-years to a long-term assignment you never asked for, you go. High school teacher Marianne Woolsey has no choice but leave her hometown in rural Iowa to spend 26 years teaching the daughter of an alien ruler so humanlike that she has to keep telling herself that he is just her boss. Handsome, deadly, and far older than he looks, the Sural finds himself drawn to the tutor he requested from Earth. He cannot reveal anything to her that he wants to conceal from the spacefaring races of the Interstellar Trade Alliance, but he cannot stay away from her. As their friendship grows, so does his conviction that she is hiding something from him. This first novel in the Tales of Tolari Space series explores what can happen when you put an unsuspecting human on a planet of empaths.
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Summary: Twenty-eight years ago, the best man at Margrave Aric kan Ingan’s wedding was given a pass to Aljansur City’s Pleasure Dome. Miles Sheffield redeemed his gift, then returned to Terra, unaware he’d sown a single wild oat who flourished as the Dome’s most famous employee. Returning Aric’s daughter to her father, Miles is back on Arcanis and face-to-face with a son who’s the star attraction at the planet’s largest brothel. Miles expects blackmail, half-brother Mark is delighted to have an older sibling, and Tam simply wants to leave his past behind. Gaining Tam’s custody, Miles takes him to Terra and a ‘normal’ life, but it’s an uphill struggle for father and son. Miles’ wife rejects her new stepson, beginning a messy intergalactic divorce; Mark helps Tam adjust to college life in the worse way possible; and then, there’s the way Tam earns his pocket money… Things eventually settle down and are going well, until… On the way to a party, Tam and Mark disappear, their aircar found abandoned. While their frantic father searches for his sons, aided by the Peace Forces of two galaxies, the brothers are whisked away to a slave emporium in the outer reaches of the galaxy, to be sold as sex slaves. Aware of what happens next, Tam attempts to protect Mark from the coming danger…but the two are separated. With his brother’s fate unknown, it’s left to Tam to survive and find his way back to Terra. Alone.
