Weekend Writing Warriors - Starquest - penultimate post - things are looking bad!

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I'm currently sharing excerpts from Starquest, the first of the Destiny Trilogy

Moving forward a bit - The crew of the Destiny  has landed at the area on the planet Phidia, which has been invaded by the Alien Ayandos. Unfortunately things do not go according to plan and they are confronted by Ayandos as soon as they step on the surface.


Without warning, Ayandos leapt forward in a fluid movement that was almost too fast to comprehend, and caught hold of Jess’s arm, dragging her back to where he’d previously stood.

“Let me go!” Jess lashed out with her free hand, struggling to free herself, but she was no match for the strength of the mutant. Kerry lunged toward the albino, as Jess cried out, the dread in her voice tearing through him like blaster fire.

“Kerry, no—he has a gun!”

Too late, Kerry saw what she had seen and Ragin sensed, a tiny laser concealed in the alien’s palm and aimed at his chest. Jess twisted in Ayandos’s grasp, trying to wrest the small weapon from him, and kicked out. Ayandos staggered a little from the blow, and she pulled herself free and sprang toward Kerry. A beam of almost invisible laser light struck her between the shoulders and she fell at his feet.

STARQUEST (The Destiny Trilogy, Vol. 1)

BLURB: When Jestine Darnell is rescued from her sabotaged starship by the crew of the Destiny her only objective is to complete her mission and keep her promise to save a world from slavery. Love is the last thing on her mind. However, she has not counted on losing her heart to Kerry Marchant the ship’s second in command, who makes his distrust of her painfully obvious, despite the chemistry between them. The completion of her mission has consequences that neither of them could have foreseen.

Enter Dahll Tarron, who becomes involved in a long and dangerous quest to find the Destiny. Fates become intertwined, perils shared, culminating in the realization that sometimes love may be so close that there is a danger it will not be recognized until it is too late…

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Bound Souls Book Tour and Giveaway

Bound
Souls

Forever
Yours Book 1

by
N.D. Jones

Genre:
SciFi, Fantasy Romance

A supernatural love triangle that tests the bounds of science, truth,

and faith.

Regent Lela of Asiya is the most powerful person on her planet but she is

powerless to save the life of her beloved soulmate—Zion Grace. For

thirty years they lived as husband and wife, but Zion’s time is at an end. Lela must go on without him.

“There will never be anyone else for me.”

Despite having died, nothing can keep Zion from his soulmate. He’s back but

not as the man he once was. Zion must help Lela move on with her life, lest he lose her forever. But how can Zion convince Lela to accept the love and affections of another man when he still wants her for himself?

“I love you, Lela. My heart is forever yours.”

Lela and Zion are bound souls, destined to live eternity together. For these lovers, death is not an end, but a fateful beginning.

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N. D. Jones lives in Maryland with her husband and two children. Having earned a M.A. in Political Science, she is a dedicated educator. She

taught high school social studies for nine years. Currently, she is a professional development teacher specialist with a local Maryland

school system, working on increasing student achievement through teacher and administrator efficacy. N.D. is also a continuing education student who is pursuing her doctorate in education in

Community College Leadership.

A desire to see more novels with positive, sexy, and three-dimensional African American characters as soul mates, friends, and lovers, inspired the author to take on the challenge of penning such  romantic reads. She is the author of two paranormal romance series: Winged Warriors and Death and Destiny. N.D. likes to read historical and paranormal romance novels, as well as comics and manga.

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Winged
Warriors Series:

Fire,
Fury, Faith

Heat,
Hunt, Hope

Death
and Destiny Trilogy:

Of
Fear and Faith

Of
Beasts and Bonds

Forever
Yours Series:

Bound
Souls

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Liquid Cool Book Tour and Giveaway

These Mean Streets Darkly

Liquid Cool Prequel

by
Austin Dragon

Genre: Cyberpunk Detective Thriller

THESE
MEAN STREETS, DARKLY the prequel to the cyberpunk
detective series, Liquid Cool.

It’s a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the “Neon Jungle.” Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the supercity, but so does crime.

An average woman, Carol—hardworking and decent in every way— loses

her daughter to the psycho Red Rabbit. Can Police Central find the

girl in time—alive? And is it really a random, senseless kidnapping

in the fifty-million-plus city?

There are a million victims and perpetrators in this High-Tech, Low-Life

World. This is one of those stories…before we meet our private eye

(and unlikely hero), Cruz, in the debut novel, Liquid Cool!

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Cool

Liquid
Cool Series Book 1

Cyberpunk
Thriller To Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat!

Liquid Cool is the action-packed (and funny), cyberpunk detective series.

How Much is One Life Worth?

In the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon shows why you never want to meet a cyborg in a dark alley. Liquid Cool is a cross between Blade Runner and the Maltese Falcon. There is plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs.

It’s cyberpunk reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers,

hovercars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and egacorporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus super-city, but so does crime.

We meet Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), in this super-city

with a million victims and perpetrators. Watch out for tech-tricksters, analog hustlers, and digital gangsters—psychos, samurais, and cyborgs aplenty. Visitors have a way of becoming permanent attractions.

Welcome
to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.

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Blade Gunner

Liquid Cool Book 2

The Cyberpunk Detective Thriller Blade Gunner Keeps
You on the Edge of Your Seat!

Liquid Cool is the action-packed (and funny), debut cyberpunk

detective series.

Who is Blade Gunner?

In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author

Austin Dragon shows you when two forces of evil want to kill each

other—get the hell out of the way! The Liquid Cool Series is the

sci-fi classic, Blade Runner meets the Old Hollywood classic, Maltese

Falcon. There is plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even

a few laughs.

It’s the cyberpunk novel reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal

skyscrapers, hover-cars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus super-city, but so does crime.

Sinister secret megacorporations. Savage Cyborg cults. And the Blade Gunner.

How does Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), solve this case—let alone survive? Off-worlders will do anything to stop the unknown man called Blade Gunner—even to blow up a supercity from space! The seedy spousal surveillance case doesn’t look so bad  after all, but it’s too late to go back. You haven’t read a cyberpunk novel like this.

Welcome

to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.

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NeuroDancer

Liquid Cool Book 3

The Cyberpunk Detective Series Continues to Thrill in NeuroDancer!

Liquid Cool is the action-packed (and funny), debut cyberpunk detective series.

Has Cruz met his supervillain match in NeuroDancer?

Liquid Cool is a Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon. In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon goes from less frenetic cyberpunk to a smoother, cyber-noir with our hero, Cruz, matching wits with the sultry NeuroDancer. There  is always plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs.

It’s the cyberpunk novel reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal

skyscrapers, hover-cars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic

mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good

one either. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control

of the fifty-million-plus super-city, but so does crime.

“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful,” she said to him. He should have
listened to his instincts when she strolled into his office to hire
him. “I knew I wasn’t gonna touch this case with a 10-foot pole.
It had danger written all over it, back and front.” But he did take
the Case of the NeuroDancer. Is this the private eye story where the
bad “guy” rides off into the sunset and the hero lies flat on his
back waiting for the meat wagon to fly down in their hoverambulance.

Which is crazier, indeed: the criminal—or the client? Welcome to the
high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.

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The
Electric Sheep Massacre

Liquid
Cool Book 4

The Cyberpunk Detective Series Goes to London! 

But in The Electric Sheep Massacre does our detective come back? And, is that before or after someone tries to kill him in the world of virtual reality?!

Liquid Cool is the action-packed (and funny), debut cyberpunk detective series.

Liquid Cool is Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon. In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon takes our private detective from the wild, concrete wastelands outside the supercity Metropolis across the Great Ocean to London Prime (that’s what they call it in the future) to the most dangerous place in the world—virtual reality, where all of a sudden

people are killing and dying. 

It’s the cyberpunk novel reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal

skyscrapers, hovercars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus supercity, but so does crime.

Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool. 

**.99 on Amazon!**

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Austin Dragon is author of the After Eden Series, including the After Eden: Tek-Fall mini-series, the classic Sleepy Hollow Horrors, and the cyberpunk detective series, Liquid Cool. He is a native New Yorker, but has called Los Angeles, California home for the last twenty years. Words to describe him, in no particular order: U.S. Army, English teacher, one-time resident of Paris, political junkie, movie buff, campaign manager and staffer of presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, Fortune 500 corporate recruiter, renaissance man, and dreamer.

He is currently working on new books and series in science fiction, fantasy, and classic horror!

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