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There’s a Problem with
the East Coast Training Facilities
Alisha joins the West Coast SkyRyders, but unfortunately her
captain comes from the East Coast facility. It turns out all three of the East
Coast Captains who came to the west coast are seriously psychotic. Like most
captains, they call new cadets ‘dogs’ and make then do all the chores, even
though the regs clearly state the house chores should be distributed fairly.
There’s also a reg that forbids the use of derogatory terms such as ‘dogs’ but
if you point that out, you’ll probably end up with your head in a dirty
toilet. But that’s just typical torment
that all cadets must endure—makes ‘em strong! (Yeah, right.)
Unfortunately, the three captains from the East Coast must
have been trained by a sadist, for there is nothing they won’t do to a cadet.
And if their colonel objects because an abnormally high quantity of cadets die
under their care, the captain will contact the general and complain his colonel
is coddling the men and interfering with the captain’s ability to improve his
squad. That always pisses General Powell off. He doesn’t believe in coddling
the squads.
One of the East Coast Captains tormented a cadet until he
couldn’t take it anymore. Only instead of offing himself, the cadet offed the
captain. So now there are only two demented captains on the West Coast.
Unfortunately, one is determined that Alisha’s first day as a cadet will be her
last. Her captain, DC, has tried but failed to kill her twice now. He is in too
deep to ever let her live now.
Read the excerpt below
to see what happens…
Scavenger’s Mission
By Liza O’Connor
Blurb
Meet Alisha: A young woman who refuses to live the life her
parents want.
In a single month,
Alisha Kane has gone from a wealthy debutante to street girl to scavenger. While testing her new flying skills in the
Cully Canyon, Alisha incurs a near-death crash
landing. She’s “rescued” by a colonel of the SkyRyders and her life changes
forever.
Meet Logan: A SkyRyder colonel in charge of a sleepy fort
with little to do other than arrest the occasional scavenger.
For the first time in
his life, Logan’s attracted to a young woman, only she’s probably a scavenger
and he’ll have to arrest her. But first
he offers her a shower and food while he checks on his crew. His videographer
has captured her extraordinary flight through the Cully and her flying is
astounding!
He forgoes arresting
her and puts his career at risk by asking MAC to assess her skills and
integrity as a potential SkyRyder. If he can get Alisha into the SkyRyders, it
will be his greatest contribution to the Corps.
Meet MAC: The Artificial Intelligence that runs the
SkyRyders Corps.
Upon seeing her
arrival, MAC upgrades Alisha’s test. Her flying skills are not just excellent;
they exceed what was previously thought possible. MAC classifies her as its top
asset and soon she proves her value.
But…the SkyRyders remain
a male dominated Corps where Alisha’s sense of right and wrong often clashes
with her superiors. How long can a rebellious young woman survive in a
regimented Corps?
Excerpt
Alisha’s best chance of survival was to become invisible to
anyone on the ridge or flying above. Using her hands,
she scraped a small indentation in the sand at the base of the wind turbine and
lay down. Within just a few minutes, a
fine layer of sand covered her blue suit. Soon she would disappear altogether.
The only problem with lying in a desert, buried in hot sand,
with an injured knee throbbing from pain, was that time wouldn’t move. Minutes
turned to hours.
She had almost convinced herself that her watch had broken
and DC must have given up by now when she sensed the proximity of a
wind-catcher. How she heard it over the drumming of the turbines she had no
idea, but a second later, its shadow crossed over her.
Thank God she hadn’t moved and caused the sand to shift off
her suit. The close call gave her incentive to remain buried, no matter how
slowly time moved or how much her leg hurt.
Alisha breathed a sigh of relief when the entire squad flew
over her and headed east toward the compound. She still waited another twenty
minutes before she pushed herself out of the sand and tried to stand up. The
pain literally knocked the breath from her lungs. How the hell can anything hurt this bad? Shouldn’t my body go into
shock and stop hurting?
She crawled to the base of the turbine and used it as a
backrest. Taking a swallow of water, Alisha realized she only had a quarter of
a pint left. She had no food, little water, and no gun to fend off coyotes and
mountain lions. If the colonel didn’t rescue her before dark, he’d probably be
taking bad news to her grandfather.
LINK
The SkyRyder’s Series,
Book 1
Scavenger’s Mission
About the Author
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ with her dog Jess. They
hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an
adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New
Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white
sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and
raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid gardener, amateur
photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through her
entire life, her first love has and always will be writing novels.
SCIENCE FICTION
Sci-Fi Soap Opera with humor, romance,
and science
Sci-Fi/Romance
The SkyRyders Series
Sci-Fi Romance
Scavenger Falters-coming 2017
Scavenger Vanishes-coming 2017
Thanks for having me over!
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DeleteThis is a wonderful book! I can't wait to read the next one!!
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