“I was.” She let out a breath that shook. “I’m sorry, Bedivere. I doubted you.”
“Devlin made you doubt. He kept you in a state of dilemma for years while he sold his virtues a day at a time. I have no virtues to sell you. All I have is me, scars and all. I have no hidden agenda. No secrets. You’ve been the center of my life for so long…forever, really. When you weren’t there, I sank like a rock. In the last few months I’ve learned how to live without you. I learned to swim.”
“That’s not a happy thought,” she said. Her voice shook.
“Yes, it is,” he told her. “It means that I will stay with you because I want to, not because I can’t do anything else. I love you, Cat. I always have. I always will. I intend to spend the rest of my life proving that to you.”
He kissed her and she pressed against him, soft and passionate and his. The room grew warm around them.
Master Engineer Caelen Williams is the most sought-after contractor aboard the closed-system marathon-class vessel
Endurance,
a generation ship at least four hundred light years away from its destination. Captain Lakewood, leader of the space-faring city, demands she resolve a life-threatening issue—the ship is losing water.
Caelen’s former lover, Devar, was wrongly persecuted by Lakewood’s people but for the sake of everyone aboard the
Endurance
, Caelen tries to solve the riddle of the draining water and learns that Devar is not the only one who may have been manipulated….
This is a short science fiction romance story, for fast reading and enjoyment.
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Great short that made me stop and reflect...love it when that happens.
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Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, paranormal, urban fantasy, futuristic and science fiction romances. She has published over 55 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.
She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year and
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Faring Soul
won a SFR Galaxy Award in 2015 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.
She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
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FIRST EDITION: May 2016
Cooper-Posey, Tracy
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Romance—Fiction
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