Retaliation by Haley Cavanagh - Book Tour + Giveaway
Retaliation
The Oceanstone Initiative #2
by Haley Cavanagh
Genre: SciFi Romance
Publisher: Covey Publishing, LLC
Publication Date: December 27, 2019
One doctor, one alien lover, one botanist, and one engineer on a desperate mission to save earth from human destruction.
Sakota saved Astraeus and her friends from certain death, but in doing so, she gained the attention of the Oreck, who will stop at nothing to destroy everything in their path.
With their ship severely damaged, Sakota and her crew land on a nearby planet and seek sanctuary while they make repairs to return home. But nothing on this perfect planet is as it appears, and Sakota soon learns they've traded one danger for another.
Hunted and targeted, will Sakota be able to carry out her mission, or will everyone she cares about be destroyed?
Sakota took a deep breath.
“Okay. Let’s do it. We’re not going to survive if we don’t.” Hisoka and Tatiana
turned around to man their consoles. She ate the last of her ration piece and
slipped her hand into Astraeus’s. The escape pod reached the mouth of the black
hole, then without warning, surged forward.
When Sakota was a child, long
before Alistair rescued her from the orphanage in the squalid wasteland of
London, the other children liked to play a game called Lights Out. In the main
room where she bunked with fifteen other girls, a shaft of light streamed in
from the hallway, in the same spot every night, like clockwork. The adult on
night duty would check in once an hour and perform a headcount as they slept.
A few nights a week, a handful
of the girls awakened and killed the hallway lights so they could scare and
torture whomever they didn’t like among them. It was a powerful systematic
lesson, however cruel. Sakota grew up knowing her place at the bottom rung of
life. She’d never fit into the cookie-cutter type molding the upper-class girls
had been bred for. She’d proved early on that she’d fight back with a vengeance
when provoked, but she wasn’t certain which was worse; being preyed upon or
listening to other girls’ pleas for help as she lay in the pitch-black room.
The memory had stayed with her well into adulthood, as well as the countless
times she could and should have stepped in to help instead of being crippled by
primal fear and self-preservation. Children could be cruel. But the fear she’d
experienced then was nothing, nothing, compared to being
sucked into a black hole.
The escape pod whirled inside
the conduit and pitched them around in a circle. They spun, at the mercy of
inexhaustible energy along the black hole’s trajectory. Though she’d
experienced raw fear when the Oreck had taken over the Sleipnir science vessel
and killed everyone, this was different. Before, she at least had an idea what
she was up against. Three razor-sharp talons emerging from claws didn’t lie.
Being sucked into the black hole was like being an ant in a cyclone.
Astraeus squeezed her palm
reassuringly. She turned and looked at him. They were both strapped in, tight.
Astraeus squeezed her hand.
“Don’t be afraid.”
The speed of the escape pod
amplified. Ribbons of light streamed past the windows like gossamer silk as the
ship darted into unknown darkness. Sakota gritted her teeth. Oh, screw not
acting afraid. She was terrified.
Astraeus
The Oceanstone Initiative #1
Publisher: Covey Publishing, LLC
Publication Date: October 12, 2018
One pre-apocalyptic Earth. One desperate space mission to find a solution. One unexpected alien.
When Dr. Sakota Thorell signed onto the mission to scout out a new, habitable planet, she knew discovering extraterrestrial life was always a possibility. But she never expected to find an alien adrift in space, nor for that alien to be so intriguing. Sakota feels an instant and undeniable attraction to Astraeus, but he represents a million possibilities, and just as many threats.
There are others hunting Astraeus, and his rescue may cost Earth its last hope.
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2 Comments
Thank you for having me on the blog today! I'm available all day to answer any questions for readers. I hope you all enjoy the book.
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Haley C.
You're very welcome! :)
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