FALLING, ADALTA VOL III, CHAPTER ONE

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Now that Hunter, Adalta II is alive and on Amazon, I finally have time to go back to work on Falling, book three. I started by going back through what I had written. It is nice when you actually like what you’ve done. 

As I promised, here is the first chapter of Falling. Please keep in mind this is a work in progress, and if you find a typo or spelling mistake, or I’ve written something like—Daryl is standing at the table, then all of a sudden he gets up—oops, he was already standing, or Cedar is drinking a glass of wine, but now she has a coffee cup in her hand—please make a comment so I can fix it. Right now I’m concentrating on getting the story down on “paper” and ready to publish next June.

I know that seems like a long time, and I wish I could write faster. My goal is to finish the draft in January, because, honestly, what really takes time and is sooo frustrating is the work that has to be done to get it edited, proofed, and published. The writing is the fun part. 

In the meantime, here is Chapter One. I hope you like it. I’d love to hear your comments.

CHAPTER ONE

Cedar Evan’s ears popped. The quarantine pod shuddered. The watering can fell off the bench. She lost her balance and smacked into a seedling table. The light over the containment hatch blinked red—on-off on-off on-off––again. Shit.

Cedar moved to the control panel. Oxygen levels were down but climbing. Pressure was down, but climbing. Her stomach was down but climbing. And climbing. Climbing a rope in her throat on its way to panic.

Yet another glitch. One or two or more––they increased every week now on Alal Trade Consortium’s five-hundred-year-old spaceship.

The light switched to steady green. Her stomach slid back down the rope, and the sigh she didn’t know she was holding burst like juice from an over-ripe orange.

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Chapter One of Hunter, Adalta Vol. II

Hunter will be published next week for Advanced Review. If you'd like a copy, send me your physical address and I'll mail you one as soon as I get the copies. I'm working on Falling, Adalta Vol. III to publish next year. 

Here is the first chapter of Hunter, and in two weeks I'll post the first chapter of Falling, or rather, the working copy of the first chapter. 

In the meantime, while you'r waiting for your copy, Karda is available on B&N and Amazon for print, and Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Ibooks and Google Play for ebooks. Fun reading for these dogs days of summer before the world comes back from vacation in September.

Chapter One. 

Tessa Me'Cowyn paced from her window to her bed to the door. She pressed her ear to the varnished oak. She could hear clashes of metal on metal, shouts, screams, running feet echoing up to the corridor, growing closer, louder, ever more threatening.

Or was this finally rescue?

After weeks as a hostage in Readen’s keep, the elegance of the furnishings, the thick rug, the private bathing room didn't make Tessa feel any less trapped.

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