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Star Cruise: Marooned
By
Veronica Scott
Meg Antille works long hours on the charter cruise ship Far Horizon so she can send credits home
to her family. Working hard to earn a promotion to a better post (and better
pay), Meg has no time for romance.
Former Special Forces soldier Red Thomsill only took the
berth on the Far Horizon in hopes of
getting to know Meg better, but so far she’s kept him at a polite distance. A
scheduled stopover on the idyllic beach of a nature preserve planet may be his
last chance to impress the girl.
But when one of the passengers is attacked by a wild animal
it becomes clear that conditions on the lushly forested Dantaralon aren’t as
advertised – the ranger station is deserted, the defensive perimeter is
down…and then the Far Horizon’s
shuttle abruptly leaves without any of them.
Marooned on the dangerous outback world, romance is the
least of their concerns, and yet Meg and Red cannot help being drawn to each
other once they see how well they work together. But can they survive long
enough to see their romance through? Or will the wild alien planet defeat them,
ending their romance and their lives before anything can really begin?
Excerpt:
Excerpt
from Star Cruise: Marooned by Veronica Scott
What in the seven hells had Drewson been
thinking, taking off without them?
The
ranger station was ominously quiet. The storm shutters were latched and the
usually immaculate landscaping had become overgrown, weeds running riot,
untrimmed vines establishing a foothold on the ornamental fence, and even
scaling one wall.
“How
long do you guess the rangers have been gone?” Meg said, eyeing the building.
She glanced at the living quarters to the left, noticing the same general run
down air. The three small houses were tightly sealed, as if hunched against a
coming storm.
“The
forest grows fast,” Red said. “Probably not more than a few months. I wonder
why we weren’t warned, though.”
“Warned?”
Callina Bettis picked up on his remark. “Are we in some kind of danger?”
Red
and Meg exchanged glances. “He means we should have been notified there
wouldn’t be any immediate help onsite,” Meg said, forcing herself to speak the
lie calmly. “In case of an emergency, like the unfortunate bite Sharmali
suffered.”
Setting
the injured woman on a picnic table, Red went to the front door of the station,
Meg on his heels. She tried activating the portal to no avail, punching the
tabs hard. “You think the last person out would have left it set to open,
general access, in case anyone needed help the way we do.” She thumped her fist
on the door.
“Unless
the staff didn’t expect anyone to be here,” Red said. “Are you sure there’s not
something you forgot to tell me?”
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