Dead World E-Book

Cora Buhlert

• Herausgeber: Cora Buhlert
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together.

Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them.

When they are hired to retrieve a weapons prototype from an abandoned planet, it seems like a routine job. But it quickly turns out that the planet is not as empty as they had thought. And soon, Anjali and Mikhail find themselves caught in a deadly chase across a radioactive wasteland.

This is a novella of 27500 words or approx. 95 print pages in the "In Love and War" series, but may be read as a standalone.

Leseprobe

Dead World

by Cora Buhlert

Bremen, Germany

Copyright © 2017 by Cora Buhlert

All rights reserved.

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In Love and War

For eighty-eight years, the galaxy has been torn apart by the endless war between the Republic of United Planets and the Empire of Worlds.

Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov are soldiers on opposing sides of that war. They meet, fall in love and decide to go on the run together.

Pursued by both the Empire and the Republic, they struggle to stay alive and free and prove that their love is stronger than the war…

I. The Mission

From afar, the Republican border world of Shashenok looked peaceful, a green globe of extensive woodlands, fertile agricultural lands, deep blue oceans and prosperous cities. It was orbited by a flotilla of satellites — communications, media, weather control and planetary defence — that encircled the world like a string of pearls.

But any spacecraft approaching Shashenok would find its hails unanswered, while scans for higher lifeforms would yield no result. Cause for all its apparent abundance, Shashenok was a dead world and had been for more than thirty years now.

As a result, hardly any spacecraft approached Shashenok these days. One of the few that did was a sleek two-seater. It had probably started life as a luxury yacht for the wealthy, but the black paint job and the extensive weapons array as well as the fact that it had no ID suggested that it had been modified for less savoury purposes.

Under normal circumstances, a vessel with no ID approaching a Republican world would have raised an alarm and brought down the full might of the planetary defence system as well as whatever military forces were stationed on Shashenok on the ship. But since Shashenok was uninhabited, the dire warnings issued by the automated orbital traffic control system were left unheeded.