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jaceyLinnea Sinclair: Gabriel's Ghost
A science fiction romance in which fleet Captain Chaz Bergren, framed and sent to an inhospitable prison planet for a military mistake she did not make, is rescued by Gabriel Sullivan, one time smuggler, drug dealer and terrorist, reported dead two years earlier. Sully has a problem. Someone is breeding vicious Jukors, deadly killers, long since outlawed, and it seems to be someone high up in the Empire's political system, or maybe even the military themselves. Chaz, raised on the military base Sully needs to infiltrate, is number one on Sully's recruitment list, but she doesn't trust him. It tuns out she's right not to. Sully has a secret that just might be more dangerous than the Jukors and their masters. Unfortunately by the time Chaz finds out it's too late, she's hooked.
This is straightforward romance with a soft-SF setting, but none the worse for that even though it's a predictable plot: girl meets boy, girl is betrayed by boy, girl is reconciled to boy. On the plus side it's action packed, sexy, well-paced and a fast, engaging read with Sully's secret being teased out gradually until in the end he has to choose between losing Chaz or telling all, It looks like it's set up for a sequel and on checking I discover, 'Shades of Dark' was published in 2008. There are also at least two other associated novels in the same universe featuring characters coming to the fore from the periphery of this one.
A science fiction romance in which fleet Captain Chaz Bergren, framed and sent to an inhospitable prison planet for a military mistake she did not make, is rescued by Gabriel Sullivan, one time smuggler, drug dealer and terrorist, reported dead two years earlier. Sully has a problem. Someone is breeding vicious Jukors, deadly killers, long since outlawed, and it seems to be someone high up in the Empire's political system, or maybe even the military themselves. Chaz, raised on the military base Sully needs to infiltrate, is number one on Sully's recruitment list, but she doesn't trust him. It tuns out she's right not to. Sully has a secret that just might be more dangerous than the Jukors and their masters. Unfortunately by the time Chaz finds out it's too late, she's hooked.
This is straightforward romance with a soft-SF setting, but none the worse for that even though it's a predictable plot: girl meets boy, girl is betrayed by boy, girl is reconciled to boy. On the plus side it's action packed, sexy, well-paced and a fast, engaging read with Sully's secret being teased out gradually until in the end he has to choose between losing Chaz or telling all, It looks like it's set up for a sequel and on checking I discover, 'Shades of Dark' was published in 2008. There are also at least two other associated novels in the same universe featuring characters coming to the fore from the periphery of this one.
