Work Journal 2/2/2020
Going through the 1st draft of Quantum Light. It went really fast. I didn’t put much of a love scene in it. I couldn’t because my two lovers Rupert and Sesuna are both sharing a room with someone else both when on Trellya and aboard the Free Trade ship. If I went out of the way to put one in, it would seem artificial, so I left it out.
Quantum Light:
A family of innocent botanists finds themselves thrust into the middle of a drug war on an alien planet.
Rupert and Aire have come to Trellya to negotiate the purchase of plants Rupert uses in the medicines and cosmetics his company makes. The dactyl Pelcon is with them because he goes everywhere Rupert goes. Sesuna came with them to find out what is happening on her family’s estates. Teenage Selick came to see Trellya and meet the birth mother who sold her to the Thieves Guild as an infant.
To her horror Sesuna discovers her family’s property has been over-run by rebels who plan to finance their revolution with the sale of Submit, a banned, highly addictive drug employed to make users compliant. They have already planted some fields on her property with plants used to create Submit. If she can’t prove her innocence the Magistra will use this as an excuse to seize the estate. But Before Sesuna can destroy the fields she and Selick are kidnapped by the rebels, whose leader intends to force Sesuna into marriage to gain control of the estate. Can Rupert and Sesuna defeat him and save her family’s lands?
THE ENFORCERS
I started researching for The Enforcers, which is the next book in the St. Antoni series. Both the MCs appeared as minor characters in the first book, but now I need to go in and create a deep background for the both of them (most of which will never appear in the book but I need to have it straight in my mind because it affects how they act). Haven’t got the cover for this one even on tap yet. I have a Spring 2020 deadline (In my mind) though so I need to get cracking on it.
On the frontier world of St. Antoni, you got tough — or you got dead.
The Portal to the world of St. Antoni was unsanctioned. Immigrants who reached there were desperate to escape earth. They snuck through the Portal with only what they could carry to face an alien world without earths advanced technology. by sheer grit and determination St. Antonoians fought their way back to the steam age. In two hundred years they created a civilization as different from that of earth as Mars is from Venus.
City states are controlled by powerful families, and the outlying ranches and mines outside them are held together by guns and guts. But the St. Antonoians new civilization had a flaw: a man or woman could commit crimes in one City state, flee to another and be safe from pursuit.
To combat this flaw, the Enforcers were created. Only this group of brave men and women, an elite law enforcement agency commissioned by the combined city states, dares to pursue outlaws across the borders. When they catch up with them, they serve as judge, jury and sometimes executioners…
Chloe has killed before as an agent of the Women’s Circle. She came prepared to do so again. But someone has beaten her to the job. A rapist named Samuel Adams has a wicked knife sticking out of his groin. It looks like her knife. It isn’t, but hers is missing, and her past is about to catch up with her.
Caleb Jones is a man with a violent past. After his family was destroyed by the Smiths, he went to work at the only job he knew. As an enforcer for the Marshals of the Federated City States of St. Antoni he hunts killers. He came to Junction City looking for the assassin who killed a rich farmer back in Azure City. Instead he finds Chloe. Is she the assassin he’s looking for or the woman who can replace everything he lost?
