To celebrate, here's a never-before-seen sneak peak at the story:
Scene set-up:
Encountering the Enemy
Network Agent Rigel Blackline and his StarDog partner, Maura, are on a critical mission, but they've just encountered a member of the enemy Ithian Alliance--a legendary female warrior-class Rathskian. Rigel isn't buying her story that she's also working with the Network, and secretly decides his next move.
Excerpt from SpyDog
She relaxed the tension in her
trigger finger.
So did he.
“You are a Network agent,”
she whispered, her eyes going round.
This changed everything.
Whoever she was, whatever she’d
seen, she was even more dangerous than he’d first thought. She’d IDed him as an
agent? Not good. She was privy to Network passcodes? That left some big, fat, unresolved
question marks. Leadership needed to know what she knew—and how she’d come to know it. How extensively had the
Network been compromised? This breach could destroy everything they’d worked so
hard for.
She wouldn’t die today. He’d just
bagged a counter-intel asset. He’d deliver her to Network authorities so they
could interrogate her—get to the bottom of how much damage had already been
done and take corrective action. Meanwhile, he’d let her think he believed her
story.
Always keep your enemies in your laze-sights. That was his motto.
“Right,” he muttered, easing his
laze-pistol back to low ready. “You’re Network.”
She, too, lowered her weapon then
holstered it.
He scowled when Maura left the
confines of his satchel and took a few tentative steps toward the woman, nose
twitching.
“Hello, little one,” the
Rathskian said, going to one knee. “Can we be friends now?” She reached out to
let the StarDog sniff her hand then gave Maura a gentle pat.
Maura responded by quickly
scaling the women’s arm. The Rathski stiffened in surprise—and so did Rigel—when
Maura wrapped herself around the woman’s shoulders like a furry, golden scarf.
Maura never took to strangers
like this. It had to be an act.
The Rathski smiled and stroked
the StarDog’s long back.
“Way to draw her in, partner.” Rigel managed not to smirk at his SpyDog’s
cleverness. “Disarm and charm her. Let her think we’re falling for her story
while we set the trap.”
“It’s important I reach the
transport leaving for MONA Loa in a few days,” she told him. “Can you help me
get there?”
“Possibly,” Rigel answered. “But
there’s something I need from you if we’re going to team up.” He gave her a
friendly smile. “Your weapons.”
Defiance flashed in her ebony
eyes. “The spaceport is crawling with patrols. Do you think that’s wise?”
“I think it’s a necessity if
we’re going to be traveling together.”
For a moment, she went rigid then
eased her stance and slowly, deliberately, drew her weapon and offered it to
him.
“And your dagger?”
She pulled the blade from her
thigh sheath and surrendered it as well.
He secured the laze-pistol in the
thigh pocket of his field fatigues and parked her dagger in his boot keep. Well, that was easy. He really hadn’t
expected her to comply so willingly. Now all he had to do was find a way to
deliver her to Network Headquarters. Hopefully he’d have a little assistance
with that soon.
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