Cassie's Troubles 3
Blurb
The SkyRyders are no
longer the best-skilled fliers in the sky, and MAC is determined to rectify the
situation by breeding better fliers. However, the introduction of an
exceptional flier into the project brings an underlying cancer to light.
Convinced the Corp removed a maneuver so a female could pass the flight exam,
the male cadets in the Academy revolt. Sensing chaos and mutiny at the Fort,
the enemy cartel gathers a force to annihilate the entire West Coast forces.
Excerpt
Twelve months later, Cassie glared at the grey walls of
General Adams’ waiting room. Of all the betrayals in her life, this was the
hardest slam, and because of her twenty-year contract she signed, she didn’t
see how she’d get out of it.
What angered her most was she hadn’t even seen it coming.
Yet, she should have. The signs were there. She had noticed the absence of
women captains, yet she let her captains distract her with lectures to focus on
herself: “Apply yourself and you’ll go far.”
Well, she applied herself, and look where it got her, in
some Ryder’s version of a medieval harem. She had flown herself right into the
Corp’s dirty secret that no female recruit ever heard about.
Dare to exceed and the Corp turns you into a breeding cow to
make future fliers.
“Cadet Brown, the general will see you now,” the male admin
announced.
Cassie stood up and tugged at the ridiculous short skirt she
wore. She longed for her fly-suit.
General Adams surprised her. He was both younger and better-looking
than the general at Dix, and the expression on his face, she had never seen on
a general’s face before. He looked at her with an expression of kindness. It
still didn’t change her resolution not to be part of this breeding program. She
had not signed up for harem duty.
“Sit down, Cadet Brown,” the general ordered.
Cassie sat in the chair on the other side of his desk and
tugged at her skirt.
He smiled at her sympathetically. “It’s just a uniform, cadet.
I find all this braid about the neck quite irritating, myself.”
“If you want to trade uniforms, sir, I’m game,” she replied.
He gave her a slight smile and walked around the desk.
Leaning against its edge, he studied her. “You aren’t particularly pleased with
your new assignment.”
“No, sir, I’m not,” she replied curtly.
“What did you find inspiring about it, Cassie?”
The change in his voice and the use of her first name in
such a familiar manner threw her off-guard for a moment, but she rallied.
“It inspires me to
inform you I find my new assignment insulting and belittling, and I will be
extraordinarily bad at it.”
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About the
Author
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ with
her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or
snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ,
hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive
with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, skydive
in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid gardener,
amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet
throughout her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing
novels.
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