Veronica:
I’m really pleased to have my SFR Brigade friend Donna S. Frelick here today as a guest, talking about her newest book, Not
Fade Away!
Donna:
Some people look up at the stars and long to explore “strange new worlds.”
Others fear the alien inhabitants of those other worlds might have designs on
our cozy blue planet and warn us to “watch the skies.”
In that case Earth would have to hope for
the defenders I’ve made the heroes (and heroines) of my contemporary SFR Interstellar Rescue series. In the IR
universe, Earth is a backwater planet, unaware of the wonders and dangers of
the larger, much busier, galaxy—a galaxy full of slave-trading aliens,
abolitionist agents, avenging space pirates and a host of intriguing supporting
characters.
The heroine of my newest standalone novel
in the series, home health care nurse Charlie McIntyre, has her cozy world turned
upside down when she takes on a new client with an irresistibly attractive
guardian. Here’s more about Not Fade Away,
Interstellar Rescue Series Book 4, launching today on Amazon!
Earth shielded his
secrets--
Until her love unlocked
his heart.
Rescue agent Rafe Gordon is human, though
Earth has never been his home. But when his legendary father Del becomes the
target of alien assassins, Rafe must hide the dementia-debilitated hero in the
small mountain town where the old man was born—Masey, North Carolina, USA,
Earth.
Home care nurse Charlie McIntyre and her
therapy dog, Happy, have never had such challenging clients before. Del’s
otherworldly “episodes” are not explained by his diagnosis, making Charlie
question everything about her mysterious charge and his dangerously attractive
son. Rafe has the answers she needs, but Charlie will have to break through his
wall of secrets to get them.
As the heat rises between Charlie and
Rafe, the deadly alien hunters circle closer. The light they seek to extinguish
flickers in the gloom of Del’s fading mind—the memory of a planet-killer that
threatens to enslave the galaxy.
In this snippet, Charlie gets a hint of
what might be behind the curtain for her with the hero, “retired” Rescue agent
Rafe Gordon:
“Just think of all those stars,” Charlie said.
“Maybe all those other worlds circling them. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go
there? To see what’s out there in all that wide space? What would it be like?”
Beside
her, Rafe tensed. “Don’t you imagine long ago tribal people in Africa stood on
the western shore and looked across the ocean wondering what was on the other
side before the slavers came for them? Be careful what you wish for.”
She sat
up to look at him. Even in the darkness she could see his features had
hardened, his jaw clenching, his lips compressing as in pain.
“Well,
that was quite a jump.” She tried to keep her tone light. “What are you talking
about?”
“There’s
a scientist—Stephen Hawking—ever heard of him?” When she nodded, he went on.
“He said once that you should pray Earth never does encounter alien beings.
They will almost certainly be more advanced than you and out to do you harm.”
She
noted the use of “you,” not “we” or “us.” Her pulse kicked up, and she shivered
inside her warm jacket. Had she spent the evening with some kind of UFO nut?
She
smiled, trying to distract him. “You sound like you have direct experience, Klaatu.”
He
didn’t smile back. “Don’t need experience to agree with the guy. Maybe I just
don’t like the idea of something snatching us up off this sweet little planet.”
“But there could be good aliens, couldn’t
there?” She was optimistic enough to believe it. Of course, there would be
differences in alien civilizations—of culture and language. Of technology. Of
biology, certainly. But there would always be good and evil, in any society.
“Like E.T. Or Superman?”
His
brows came together in a frown. “Not the kind of aliens I’m talking about. I
don’t think.”
Not Fade Away,
Interstellar Rescue Series Book 4, debuts
today on Amazon.
Follow the same link to find all three other Interstellar Rescue series novels on sale at $0.99 each for a
limited time only!
Donna S. Frelick has been a journalist, a
Peace Corps Volunteer and an author of STAR TREK fan fiction. She was an RWA®
Golden Heart® Double Finalist in 2012 for the first two novels in her contemporary
SFR Interstellar Rescue series, and a
2016 SFR Galaxy Award Winner for the third book in the series, Fools Rush In.
Find her at http://donnasfrelick.com; blogging at http://spacefreighters.blogspot.com; on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DonnaSFrelickAuthor and on Twitter
@DonnaSFrelick.
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Donna-S.-Frelick/e/B00TSTE06E/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1473284864&sr=8-1
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