A Trip to Another World

One doctor, one alien lover, one botanist, and one engineer on a desperate mission to save earth from human destruction.  

Book blurbs can really grab one's attention and when you read one like that, you certainly want to investigate further and find out what the story is.  That the blurb for the new book, Retaliation.

It is written by Haley Cavanaugh, and it certainly caught my interest and made me want to know more.  Haley is my guest today in My Writing Corner. She is  a military veteran, wife, and mother who is an alumna of Columbia College. She also says she is, a musical theater nut, and she loves to dive into any book that crosses her path. Haley resides with her family in the United States and enjoys spending time with her husband and children when she’s not writing. She tells us she loves to hear from her readers, and encourages you to contact her via her website and social media. That information is posted below, but first let's get more on her new book. Here is the blurb:

  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?

I don't know about you, but the blurb only got me more interested and now I know I want to read on. Let's get an excerpt:

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.

OKAY! Now, if you're ready to read on, here are the buy links.  I know I'm hooked!

 

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082MB9VPV/

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082MB9VPV/

Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B082MB9VPV/

Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B082MB9VPV/

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/retaliation-haley-cavanagh/1135488266

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49206345-retaliation

iTunes: https://books.apple.com/us/book/retaliation/id1491106031

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/retaliation-20

And if you'd like to know more about Haley and her other books, here is her contact information:

Website:  www.haleycavanaghbooks.com 

Newsletter:  https://haleycavanaghbooks.com/vip-readers-group/

Bookbub:  https://www.bookbub.com/profile/1769243778 

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/haley_cavanagh 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/haleycavanaghbooks/ 

Pinterest:  https://www.pinterest.com/ambitioushales/ 

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42207961-astraeus

Thank you, Haley, for giving us a chance to know more about you and your book!

Any questions or comments for Haley?