Graveyard Shift E-Book

Cora Buhlert

• Herausgeber: Cora Buhlert
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

While docked at the civilian space station Unity for repairs, the Republic of United Planets battlecruiser Great Endeavour undertakes a trial flight with an inexperienced bridge crew. Disaster strikes and the Great Endeavour crashes into Unity's shopping concourse, killing more than three hundred people.A tragic accident, but in times of war, the public is not willing to accept tragic accidents. And so the Republic's government sends its best troubleshooter, Colonel Brian Mayhew of the Republican Special Commando Forces to initiate a cover-up.This is a novelette of 14100 words or approx. 48 print pages in the In Love and War series, but may be read as a standalone.

Leseprobe

Graveyard Shift

by Cora Buhlert

Bremen, Germany

Copyright © 2016 by Cora Buhlert

All rights reserved.

Cover image © Grandfailure, Dreamstime

Pegasus Pulp Publications

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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 Concourse

High in orbit above the border world of Legrelle, spun the space station Unity, one of the biggest civilian space stations in this sector of the Republic of United Planets.

Among the people who strolled along the main concourse of Unity was Tabitha Tyrone, tall, statuesque, dark-skinned, her hair braided into neat cornrows. She had just turned thirty-eight and served aboard the deep space freighter Freedom’s Horizon, in theory as first mate and in practice as Girl Friday, who handled everything nobody else could be bothered to do, in this case handing in paperwork at the civilian docking office.