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Hello, Readers! Just to let you know … there’s a special promotion going on over at Kobo, where you can get 50% off ALL ebooks, and you can use the promo code an UNLIMITED number of times !! All of MY ebooks are there for purchase, so if you’ve been waiting to get a deal on an Elle Casey title, now’s your chance! The books downloaded from Kobo will work on all ereaders but the Kindle software. Use the following promo codes to get the deal:

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Ask My Anything! Submit your questions before Friday afternoon!

I’m going to be featured on Inkitt.com’s “Ask Me Anything” event this Friday, the 23rd of October at 1:00pm PST. Submit your questions anytime before that, and I’ll do my best to answer them. I can’t wait to share! (And knowing me, there will be some oversharing to look forward to.)

For Kobo users … a SUPER deal on ebooks!

Weekend eBook Sale – Get 3 for the Price of 2! Valid Oct 15th – Oct 19th only!Just click that link up there, and you can shop on Kobo (an ebook company based out of Canada with a really great online store) and buy books for your ereader. They’ll come in the same format as all the retailers but Amazon use, i.e. “epub”.

Enjoy!

Onward and Upward!

If you caught my last post, you read about my husband’s terrible horseback riding accident that put him in the hospital for going on two weeks now. I wanted to post an update on his condition for all of you who reached out to me with your wonderful words and acts of kindness. I heard from readers all over the world, receiving messages and emails that brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your kindness and love. I will work every day to deserve having you in my life!

This post is also for any of my readers who want to know what’s up with my publishing schedule which has been delayed by this accident. Honesty, I had no idea how hard it would be to write anything at all … even an email … when my husband was on death’s doorstep! Awful stuff, truly awful. I could have written a slasher novel told from a serial killer’s perspective; that’s how dark I’ve felt over the last 10 days. But there’s a light at the end of this tunnel of ours, so onward and upward! We have only good things to look forward to, friends.

Husband Update

Craig still has a broken pelvis, but it’s on the mend, and his internal bleeding has stopped on its own without much surgical intervention (he had a femoral arterial ablation done, but that was better than what was on the menu!). He’s walking like a 120-year-old man with a walker, but hopes to graduate to a cane soon. I’m going to buy him a really cool one with a dragon head on it, of course. Broken bones don’t heal when they’re not under pressure, so he has to walk on the dang thing. It’s crazy painful, but he’s tough and determined to get this thing behind him, so he walks. He’ll be coming home this week, and I’ll have a really fancy (ugly) hospital bed in our living room all ready for him, and there it will stay for the time being, since he can’t walk up stairs for the foreseeable future. Maybe in a month or two he’ll be just on a cane for occasional use; that’s our goal, anyway.

Drifters’ Alliance

Now, for my publishing schedule… I’m just about finished with Drifters’ Alliance 3. I had only 10,000 words left to go on it, so I’m hammering those out this week, come hell or high water! I have a bunch of pre-orders on that book, and no one needs to worry about being disappointed with a delay. The book will be delivered on time, right to your Kindle if you’ve preordered. I’m not sure if it’ll be live in mid-November as scheduled or earlier. We shall see.

War of the Fae

My War of the Fae fans have been waiting patiently for books 9 and 10, and number 9 was supposed to be available at the end of October, but that’s unfortunately not going to happen. (Boo hiss!) There will be a delay for both books of about 60 days. That puts their releases in either late December or maybe even January. I’m going to try to do things faster for you guys, but I hate to change plans and delay things again, so lets just keep it fluid for right now, and as we draw closer to the end of the year, I’ll be able to fix a more definitive date. This series is very special to me, and I need to do the right thing and not rush it just for the sake of hitting a date that was fixed before I knew the surprises life was going to hand me. Thank you very much for your patience and understanding. I promise, you won’t be disappointed. Jayne and friends still have a lot of adventures to share.

Just One Night and Just One Week

My Just One Night series continues to be popular with readers, and its sequel Just One Week is coming out in November and December, life willing. I’ve gotten about half of it done, and I will press on and try to get the rest of it finished so it can release on time. Best case scenario, it’ll be out in weekly installments (it is a serial, after all) starting in November; worst case, January. This is another one of those fluid situations. Thanks to my fans of this series for their patience too!

Welcome, new readers!

I have a bunch of new readers jumping onto the Elle Casey bandwagon due to my release of Wrong Number, Right Guy through Montlake Romance. This book has stayed in the top 100 at Amazon since its release on September 22nd, and as of this moment on October 11th it’s still hanging in there at #25. Yay! There will be more books in this series (at least two) released next year, maybe one of them even in the first quarter. I can’t wait to see what you all think of the next one! If you liked the writing style and tone of that book, you might want to check out my Rebel Wheels, Love In New York, Just One Night, or the MacKenzie Family series. You can search all my books by genre starting HERE. I write in a lot of genres, so if you like to try something a little different sometimes, feel free to click a different button or two on that page!

New Projects

There are various other little single releases I was hoping to finish for you this year, but all of those will be shuffled over to 2016 because as you can see from the above, I’m going to be very, very busy in the last quarter of 2015 getting all these other delayed projects sewn up. Good news for 2016 … I’m trying to put together all the conditions necessary for the writing of Sea Wenches, a series I’ve been contemplating for 3 years! I have the covers done and a description up on Goodreads, and readers ask me often when they’ll be out, so I hope it’ll be a fun series for all of my readers, regardless of which genre they prefer. Think Pirates of the Caribbean crossed with Little Mermaid and you might get close to my vision for the project.

Thank you, Noelle!

Last, but certainly not least, I want to send out a very special shout out to Noelle, my assistant. She has been indispensible to me and my husband in running our publishing business, but after he hit the dirt, she really kicked into high gear. I’ve never had a more dedicated colleague, and I send a special prayer up into the universe for her and to the forces that delivered her into our lives! She is a true angel of a girl, and I’m so lucky to not only work with her but to have the opportunity to share her with my readers. Come on over to our Facebook page at Elle Casey’s Inner Sanctum and say hi to her if you haven’t already. She’s a book worm’s book worm, and loves nothing more than to chat about her or your latest reads! If you’re not a part of the Inner Sanctum, sign up here!

Life can change in an instant…

Maybe you don’t know this about me, but I’m mad into horses. I started riding just two years ago at the ripe old age of 44, and I can’t see anything but manes, tails and saddles anymore. Every free moment I have is pretty much spent at the barn with my half-blood arab/draft horse, Organdy.

Now, my husband, on the other hand, is not mad into horses. He puts up with them for my and my daughter’s sake. He comes to her competitions, watches some of my lessons, video tapes things when asked, and so on. He never complains about the time we spend with our furry friends, and he even volunteers to shine boots when they get too dusty.

But one day earlier this year he announced his plans to join us in our horse-mad world and decided he was going to start taking lessons. I joined him, even though I’ve moved up in levels and he’s just starting out. We rode Thursday evenings together in the little riding ring reserved for beginners.

In his very first lesson, our instructor asked him to canter the horse. That’s not normal for beginners, but my husband was doing so well and is a fearless kind of guy, so what the hell. He did it. And he did well enough at it that our instructor had him do it in our second and third lessons too.

It’s that third lesson that will go down in history as the very worst day in my married life.

It was the last minute of the lesson. Craig, my husband of 12 years and love for 16 years, was coming around the bend in the riding ring when he started to lose his balance in the saddle. The saddle slipped. He started yelling in fear. It spooked my gentle, sweet horse into running faster. The centrifugal force was too much for all the variables in that equation and my husband went down.

Now, had he gone down at any other spot in that riding ring, he would have been fine. He would have landed in soft sand and maybe along a flexible tape that marks the edges of the ring. But he didn’t fall in any of those other places; he fell against the two wood bars that mark the entrance to the riding area, that are affixed by metal brackets to solid posts buried in the ground. His body slammed into them with absolutely nothing breaking that fall.

My husband suffered injuries very much like those suffered by people thrown from motorcycles. He broke his pelvis and an artery in his abdomen started to bleed. He couldn’t stand or walk after.

We somehow managed to put him into my car, rather than an ambulance, because all of us present, including Craig, thought he probably just pulled a groin muscle and strained his back. That’s what it felt like to him, and people have fallen off horses a hundred times there without so much as a limp after.

We went home and my husband tried to tough it out, but within a couple of hours,we knew this was no muscle pull or back strain. I brought him to the hospital and stood in the MRI booth while the scan went over his body and revealed how badly he was injured.

Craig is in the hospital now, and they cannot figure out where he’s bleeding from. He can’t move from his back, he can’t sit up, he can’t stand, he can’t walk. Their first priority is to find that bleeding and make it stop. After that, we’ll talk about him going into rehab to walk again.

My husband has only left my side in 16 years to visit family. Never have I ever been in a position where I couldn’t call my husband in an emergency and say, “Please come home. I need you.” I’m there now, and let me tell you, it sucks. It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever had. I don’t like it one bit, and I hate the fact that I have no control over it. No matter how hard I work, no matter how much I beg, no matter what deal I’m willing to make, it won’t change. He’s hurt and he needs time to get better, and until that happens, we will be apart.

I tell you this for two reasons: (1) I want you to go to the people you love right now and tell them how much you appreciate having them in your life, because you never know when they won’t be; and (2) I know a lot of my faithful readers are expecting a few books from me over the next couple months, and now that I’m going to be spending a lot of time at the hospital and at home picking up all the loose ends my husband regularly manages, those book releases will be delayed.

My publishing schedule will be updated very soon to reflect my new reality, and I want to thank you right here first for being so understanding, as I know you will be. You always are, and I’m so very lucky to have each of you in my life. Bear with me, and I promise, I will get those books to you as soon as possible!

Much love, and please be safe out there when you try your new hobbies. Remember: You must walk before you can run!

Elle

My Newest Release!

I have some very exciting news… I teamed up with Montlake Romance to start a new romance series, called Bourbon Street Boys, and the first book has arrived! It’s getting some fantastic reviews (phew!) and it’s stayed in the Amazon Top 100 since it launched a week ago. Daaaaang, I’m so proud! Working with the Montlake team has been really great, and we’re already talking about the next book, so if you like this one, you’ll have more to look forward to! Below you’ll find links to purchase, a description of the plot, and a few reviewer comments. Happy reading, and please, SHARE this news with your reader buddies! HUGS…Elle

Wrong Number, Right Guy
$3.99
Author: Elle Casey
Series: Bourbon Street Boys, Book 1
Genre: Romance & Chick Lit
Length: 351 pages
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Publication Year: 2015
ISBN: 9781503947450

When a mysterious text message summons May Wexler to a biker bar in downtown New Orleans, she knows something is very wrong. Her sister has sent out an SOS, but when May gets there, she’s nowhere to be found and May is the one in trouble—she’s wearing pink espadrilles, she’s got a Chihuahua in her purse, and she’s in the middle of a shootout.

After tall, muscular Ozzie comes to her rescue, May has no choice but to follow him to safety. At the headquarters of his private security firm, the Bourbon Street Boys, she finds a refuge for the night—and the offer of a job. But it’s not long before a gun-toting stalker isn’t the only complication in May’s life: the more time she spends with Ozzie, the less she can deny that they’ve got some serious chemistry. A wrong number got her into this mess…Will it also get her the right guy?


Overview

HERE’S WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT WRONG NUMBER, RIGHT GUY:

“I loved every single page of this book. May was so much fun to get to know. And Ozzie, well, he had me from the beginning. I’m so excited to see what Elle Casey has in mind for the future of this series. You can rest assured that I will first in line waiting for the next book.”~ Carol, Goodreads Addict

“I loved this book from start to finish and I laughed the whole way through. Elle Casey must have a wicked funny personality as when she writes humor, she does it soooooo well!!!!” ~ Jackie Kluyts, Kiwi Book Nerd, Goodreads reviewer

“I started Wrong Number, Right Guy last night and could’ve continued reading straight through… I literally laughed out loud from start to finish (I think I even pulled a muscle trying to laugh quietly in bed), in true Elle Casey fashion. It’s one of the things I love most about this author. The overall story was unique, engaging and, like I’ve stated, funny. I really hope this turns into a series because I’d love to see some books about the other characters in this book. They all have very unique personalities and Ms Casey does a great job of making each person completely different from the next.” ~ Desiree, Goodreads reviewer

Slight change to publishing schedule

For those of you who don’t already know, I try to publish a full novel every month. Sometimes I’ve hit 6 weeks and sometimes 3, but I’d say my average over 40+ books is about 4 weeks. I’m so used to doing it, it’s not that big a deal, although when I procrastinate and save up some big word-count days toward the end of the month, I do tend to over-caffeinate.

As I’m coming down the home stretch with Drifters’ Alliance 3 (my space opera series I started this year), with just 2 more days left until I MUST upload the final draft (per my contract with Montlake who is publishing a romance I wrote titled Wrong Number, Right Guy), I realize I just need more time.

Here’s what happened (grab a snack, I have a feeling this is going to be long):

I started writing this third book in Drifters’ Alliance with the thought that it would wrap up the story arc started in book 1 and begin a new arc that I could stretch across another 3 books (4, 5, and 6). I’d like this series to just keep going for as long as I’m having fun writing it and my readers are having fun reading it. I’m such a huge Firefly fan, and this is my way of keeping my head in space, as it were. Not that this is fanfiction or anything, but hey, space is space…

As many of you know, I don’t use outlines. I just sit down and write whatever my characters are saying and doing, like I’m typing out a dictation of a movie I’m watching in my head. That always means surprises, but sometimes there are bigger surprises that show up than other times. In this book, that happened, big time.

I thought it was all going to be pretty easy to tie things up and find the ending, but NO, I was wrong. All kinds of weird shit happened midway through the book, and new characters popped up who I had no idea were going to join the party. And then these sinister undertones hinting about the existence of other characters being out there (as yet unknown to me) showed up … Ack. Big mess of a story line.

Long story short, DA3 is going to be a lot more complicated to finish up than I expected. I won’t feel comfortable wrapping up this book until I’ve gone back (again) and re-read books 1 and 2 to make sure all the loose ends are tied up and the consistency is there. There are just too many threads to tie together, and I don’t want to shortchange my readers by dropping the ball. Books 1 and 2 worked on setting the stage and developing the characters a little, but this book brings it all together.

Soooo … long story short, here’s my new pub schedule (which is still subject to change!): August 28th you’ll get Drifters’ Alliance 2. September 22nd, you get Wrong Number, Right Guy (First in a series of 3 romances). End of October you’ll get Drifters’ Alliance 3 and at least one War of the Fae book (9) and possibly #10 as well. November, #10 of War of the Fae if it isn’t already out and Just One Week, a serial romance that is related to the Just One Night series I wrote last year.

That’s it! I hope you don’t tear your hair out over this (like I am).  Big hugs to all my faithful (and patient) readers!

I’m floored… Let’s hear it for girl (em)power(ment)!

I received this message/comment on my Facebook page from a reader named Jesse, and I just had to share it because it made me cry (in a good way). I’d also like to add in response to this message, and for anyone who agrees with what this reader said, that my books are slowly being added to the Overdrive system. For those of you who have no idea what that means, I provide this bit of data: Overdrive is the company that makes ebooks available to libraries all over the world so that readers can check them out and read them for free without pirating! Yay to no pirating! So, very soon you will be able to go into your library and request Elle Casey books from your  librarian, and they’ll be able to stock them as ebooks for you to borrow. Free to library patrons!

Here’s the message from Jesse, referring to my War of the Fae series. Book 1, The Changelings , is FREE, at every retailer that allows free books (Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, & Google Play).  If you haven’t read it yet, head over to any of these sites to download your copy, or maybe share it with a young teen you know who might need a little escape and a heavy dose of girl empowerment.

Amazon US l Amazon CA l Amazon UK l B&N l GooglePlay l iBooks l Kobo

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“I really enjoy reading Jayne’s adventures! From the first books ending I was straight to book 2! I always like seeing how characters grow & she reminds me very much of myself at her age. I was also lucky enough to have a friend like Tony to help me escape from things and help hold me together just by being there. So I get her loyalty to the friends who are her family and so many other things. We even have the same favorite word (working on that with my little RockStar Baby Bee in the house and it’s soo hard, can you ask Sam to whip me up a spell please?!) & lack of patience! Because the end of August seems like it’s forever away! But I’m looking forward to seeing what comes next!

Thanks again for bringing such an awesome & inventive world to literature! Especially one with such an empowered leading female! Jayne Sparks doesn’t play around and she will take care of your family planning if you mess with her or her loved ones! I’m so thrilled to see the influx in badass, booty kicking leading female characters in books, movies and in real life as well! I do volunteer work with young women who have been victims of abuse of all kinds, been addicts and several other situations. I always encourage them to read books with strong women characters because it’s a great way to escape & also empowers them. I have given so many books away because they loved them so much. One of my girls told me that she would pay me for the book I’d let her borrow because she wanted to frame it as it helped her see that she was strong enough to break the cycle and she’s never looked back! I’ve given this series to 3 of my younger girls & Jayne has helped them deal with their own turmoil from their various traumas. One girl has been rereading the series over and over again nonstop since she first read it. You really captured the feelings that come with abuse & showed that it doesn’t have to define your life… it just makes you stronger for surviving the bad times and savor the good times all the more!

We need writers like you reaching out to young women across the world & letting them know that they can kick just as much ass as Jayne, be as smart Hermione, survive everything like Katniss & be brave like Tris! I may have a son, but I also have 2 nieces, and as a member of the human race, I want both my nieces, little cousins and every single little girl out there to grow up empowered, knowing that she can take on the world & the world better watch out for her!”

I agree, Jesse. We do need more literature that speaks to young girls and makes them feel powerful and strong. I’m thrilled to know that you and the girls you work with feel that way about my work.

Reader Expections : Blessings or Curses?

If you know me, you know I write in several genres. At last count, those included urban fantasy, romance, thriller/suspense, paranormal, action-adventure, dystopian, and hard science fiction-space opera. The hard sci-fi was new for me as of last month. It’s a genre I enjoy as a fan of TV, film, and novels (Dune was my first!), but had never experienced as a writer.

So far I’ve published one sci-fi novel (Drifters’ Alliance, Book 1) and a short story prequel to that series (Winner Takes All), which is scheduled for release on August 24th as part of an anthology titled Dark Beyond the Stars.  I’ve really enjoyed stretching my wings and trying this new thang. I love space battles! Pew-pew!

I’ve also realized something important about myself and my job as a writer, and because this new discovery is kind of slowing me down and holding me back from writing my next book (by clogging up my brain), I figured I’d blog about it. Generally speaking, when I write something down in the blogosphere, it gets it out of my head and allows me a clear path ahead. And right now, my brain is completely clouded and jammed up with the specter of … duh-duh-duh-duuuhhhh … Reader Expectations.

What exactly do I mean by reader expectations?

Once you write a book, if it’s good enough and all the planets and stars have aligned (meaning you get some kind of online exposure somewhere, be it via a retailer and/or an influential blogger), you gain a following of readers looking forward to your next release. And those readers will naturally have some expectations concerning that next release. For example, they’ll want your next book to be similar in tone and style, similar in length (or longer if possible), and capable of evoking the same kind of emotional responses the previous one did. Fair enough, right? That’s cool.  I’m down. I’m a reader too. I toootally get it.

When there are just a few expectant readers out there, it’s somewhat easy to make them happy. After I wrote one book, I had maybe three people who bothered to email me and tell me what they were hoping to see in the next book (and one of them was my mother). I was happy to accommodate any of those requests that made sense for the next story, and I did my best to write the second book with as much passion and focus as I had the first. Reader expectations in small doses like that were invigorating!

But once you write 30 plus books, you gain a lot more readers and along with them, a lot more expectations, a lot more email messages with strong opinions, and a lot more … shall we say … vigorous requests for certain story arcs, character development points, and other various things that go into telling a story. Shoot, I even have people telling me how I should run my business.

What kind of expectations are we talking about here?

I’m pretty open about my writing process, and I regularly invite readers to contact me and discuss my books. Maybe that’s why I get so many passionate messages from people who have opinions about how I should write my books and what they hope to see from me next. My reviews are often written as messages directly to me, since my readers know I read those things every day. It’s cool! I love it! But you know, even very wonderful things tend to have a dark side to them, and reader interaction is no exception.

The problem with reader expectations for me at this point, really, is twofold: First, because there are so many, they constantly conflict with one another; and second, because of that first point, they eventually make it very difficult for me to write anything at all.

I’ll give you an example of the first situation, a phenomenon you can verify by reading the reviews on any of my books. For the same book, I’ve heard from readers that :

the story is too long, and the story is too short,
the girl should have gone with boy #1, and the girl should have gone with boy #2,
a girl of this age would never do what my character did, and my character acted exactly as a girl of this age would,
I didn’t resolve the main conflict, and the main conflict was completely resolved
people don’t say in real life what my characters say, and my characters are so real they practically jump off the page,
I don’t know what I’m talking about, and I’m a frigging genius,
series suck, and series are awesome,
cliffhangers suck, and cliffhangers are awesome,
characters shouldn’t swear (because it’s not nice to read in a book), and characters should swear (because real people swear and characters in books should act real).

After you read a few hundred of these conflicting messages, you start to wonder if there really is any way to please anyone. (In fact, *spoiler alert*, you can’t. In case you didn’t already know that.)

That leads me to my second point, which is that as each new book comes out in a genre I’ve already written in, the pressure increases exponentially and makes it very, very hard to write anything at all. Pressure with book #1 in a new genre? Practically zero. Maybe 1 out of 10. Pressure with book #2? 5 out of 10. Yeah. Big jump there. Pressure with book #3? 10 out of 10. And I have a series that’s going on 9 books now. You can imagine the freak-out level I’m at with that one. (War of the Fae, holla! Book 1 is FREE, yo, jus’ sayin’.)

With every single word that flies off my fingers and onto the keyboard, I’m questioning whether I’m doing the right thing, whether I will disappoint a huge number of people and make them hate me (readers can get really, really cranky when you don’t deliver, trust me on this), and whether I will finally see the end of my career as a storyteller. I’m a human being. I want to be loved just like everyone else. But these books are part of my brain, part of my spirit, maybe even part of my soul. It really, really stings when people say I let them down. Knife. In. The. Heart kind of sting.

On the other hand, the process of writing a book, the mechanics of it, get easier with each one. I can whip out a manuscript formatted perfectly, I’ve lost most of my bad habits, I edit faster, etc. But to actually create the story inside the book…? I swear it gets harder with every one I write, sometimes tortuously so. For me, it’s not writer’s block that slows the start or completion of a book; it’s the high expectations readers have for me and that I have for myself.

Solutions?

Now … would I change it if I could? Get rid of all the reader interaction and just focus on writing for myself? Leave those expectations unnoticed in the dark? Ignored?

No. Because in order to have demanding readers, you have to write books people want to read, books people get excited about. I get excited about good books. I know how that feels to read something awesome and want to talk to someone about it. And to be able to talk to the author? That’s some kind of miracle for a bookworm like me.* So why wouldn’t I want to do that for other readers who like my work? I’d have to be crazy to shut myself off from all that reader love, regardless of the side effects.

I must be doing something right, because the expectations for my work seem to get higher and higher with every release. So according to my long-winded blog post here, that means I have more and more pressure to look forward to. But what’s the alternative? The way I look at it is this: the alternative to life is death, so even when life gets tough, it’s better than the alternative. And what’s the alternative to reader expectations?  No reader expectations because no one gives a crap about what I write. And I could never live with that. Talk about soul-crushing!

So, I guess what I’m saying after reading my own words here, is bring on the expectations and the opinions, bring on the passion, and bring on the rage if that’s all you can manage; just don’t stop reading and loving my stories and my characters. Readers, you are ALL blessings to me. But if I’m a few days late delivering a promised book, please don’t roast me over a fire for it. I’m doing the best I can in this pressure cooker that is my brain.

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*(I’ve only fan-girled once and somehow managed to hold back from asking the author why he wrote a particular scene that drove me crazy with wondering, as much as I wanted the answer! The book was Defending Jacob by William Landay in case you want to check it out. I recommend it!)

My Newest Release… Drifters’ Alliance

Introducing Book 1 in my new Science Fiction Space Opera Series!
**Only $2.99 for a few more days, then the price goes up to $3.99**

DESCRIPTION

One hand of cards and it’s all over but the crying… Cass Kennedy finally gets what she’s been dreaming of for the past ten years: a drifter ship to call her own. All the sim time and battle training is going to pay off in spades as she sets her course for the future. She’ll be living on her own terms, not those of her father’s. But drifting through deep space with a crew of nutty strangers on the DS Anarchy carries a lot more surprises than she bargained for. Nobody told her that her ship is falling apart, that dead chickens are something you really want to hang on to, and that the OSG has big plans for the universe that don’t necessarily jibe with her plans for herself. Jump onboard with Cass and her crew as she charts a course towards an alliance that will either make her or break her as Captain of the DS Anarchy.

SERIES: This is Book 1 in a series of 3 or more.

GENRE: Science Fiction, Space Opera

AUDIENCE: For older teens and adults

CONTENT WARNING: Colorful language, sexy stuff, and general badassery

Now available here:

Amazon US

Amazon CA

Amazon UK

B&N

Google Play

iBooks

Kobo

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