Work continues in the salt mines, which is me sitting at a desk in my bedroom in front of the ‘puter with some concentration music playing in the background. 15,075 words although one scene has to be deleted so the total for this book is more like 14,000.
I wish I could write faster, but I’m typical only capable of high-level executive function for a few hours every day. Send me a line if you want to encourage me to write more!
Green gladiator with a talented tail. Human woman who engineers her way out of every problem. Fate has brought them together, but can they escape Broken Stone Arena before they’re torn apart?
After being captured in an escape attempt, Suriat has been beaten, whipped, starved, and dehydrated. He considers himself a “bad male” and that this is perhaps his fate. But when he hears the voice of a human female and he’s determined to live.
Mira is an engineer on Earth’s first colony, Proxima Centauri b (Proxima for short), when she’s kidnapped and transported to a strange planet. On Barya, she wakes up in the grasp of the villainous Sideran, who wants her as a willing concubine. Repeated rejections lead Sideran to using her as bait in the gladiator arena … but against all odds, a green man with a tail rescues her. Suriat.
Suriat is sold to one of the lower ranking gladiator Houses, House Dotios, under a Serontian named Peldar. In the gladiator cells under the arena, he’s stuck with his newly-arrived brother, who reminds Suriat that he’s a selfish disagreeable person. Mira is placed in a cell across the hall, and they’re only allowed a few moments together every day.
Mira finds herself falling for this green man, despite herself. She can remember the voices of other women while she was mostly unconscious, after being kidnapped. She wants to rescue them and return to Earth. But she knows she can’t take Suriat with her. And she wonders what he can do with that tail of his …
oh it’s going to be steamy, don’t you worry!
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