Showing posts with label Keir's Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keir's Fall. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

More Blue Men from Space


Blue men are incredibly popular with authors. We truly love them.
With Valentine coming up I wanted to share even more lovely blue aliens, just in case you want to take one home.





Big Blue Valentine
by
Sue Lyndon

It’s probably not smart to turn a powerful alien prince blue on purpose, but when Princess Minnie thinks her husband, Zak, forgot Valentine’s Day, she impulsively squeezes a lemon slice into his drink. She knows full well the effect lemon has on Aklannians. Now it’s just a matter of time before his golden skin turns a brilliant shade of blue. She plots to have him called back from Parliament so she can confess her naughtiness to him in private, but the scheme blows up in her face.

Prince Zak can’t believe someone slipped lemon into his drink, causing him to postpone his Valentine’s Day surprise for Minnie. But he’s even more stunned to discover his own wife is behind his sudden change in color. Big, blue, and infuriated, he storms through the palace halls in search of his wayward princess. She has some explaining to do.

Note: This story contains a mischievous human girl who delights in all things Valentine’s Day, a hunky alien prince who doesn’t take kindly to being turned blue, a bit of spanking, and other naughty scenes that are out of this world. Please don't buy this book if such material offends you.









Prophecy 
by 
Lea Kirk

One normal day turns into a nightmare when Earth is attacked. Now ER nurse Alexandra Bock is imprisoned aboard an alien slave ship with no way out. She deems all aliens untrustworthy, including the handsome blue-skinned Matiran captain who shares her cell.

One night of betrayal leaves Senior Captain Gryf Helyg a prisoner of his enemies. Because of him, Earth’s indigenous people face extinction and his home world is threatened. But his plans for escape are complicated by his inexplicable draw to the Earth woman imprisoned with him.

One ancient prophecy holds the key to free Alexandra and Gryf’s war-ravaged worlds. Can two wounded souls who have lost everything learn to trust and forgive in order to fulfill the prophecy, and find a love that will last for eternity?










Keir's Fall
by 
Pippa Jay


A seductive tyrant. A lost hero. And a galaxy about to fall...

It’s been a year in paradise for Keir and Quin, but now the idyll is over. After Quin falls sick, they return to the hidden sanctuary of Lyagnius, and what she learns there will not only change their lives, but set them on a journey that could separate them forever.

When Keir falls victim to a ruthless Nercaandi Empress bent on conquering the galaxy with her cybernetic army, it will take all Quin’s diminishing powers and the help of her son to find him. But what waits for her aboard the tyrant’s ship will test her strength and the limits of their love, and put everything she cares about at risk. Including Keir.

With the galaxy itself about to fall, will she be able to save him?


B&N 









Celestial Seduction
by
Jessica Subject

At the end of his obligated commitment to the Space Service, Frey Berger decides to stay on Earth to further experience human emotions rather than return to Ginnun where his intended has already mated with another. Looking for real love and someone to accept him for what he is, Frey enlists in Madame Evangeline’s popular dating service. Although he does not understand the concept of a one-night stand, he hopes to find his perfect mate.

Carrie Cooper’s husband divorced her for someone who could provide him with children, leaving her with little self-confidence and no desire to let a man hurt her again. Her best friend convinces her to join a dating service, claiming Carrie needs to get laid, while not winding up with a broken heart since her date requires no commitment after the night is over.

Can Frey convince Carrie that her perfect mate isn’t human at all, and that one night can lead to a forever love?





Now for the chance to win one of these fabulous books.
"But Liza," you say. "I don't know some of these books."
No worries. Read the blurbs, look for key words, and match them to the favorite lines.  You can do this!

A winner will be chosen from those who get all four right, which you will, if you follow my advice. :)


Just match the book #s to the letters below.




A.
Nameless and uncertain, 
he waited in the bedroom of the empress.

B.
“If you fall asleep, 
then I will need to reevaluate my technique.”

C.
“I’m not exactly like you and most of the people on Earth. I’m….different.”

D.
“I didn’t forget Valentine’s Day, by the way. 
You turned me blue for nothing.”


Thursday, January 14, 2016

Pippa Jay explains why alien invasions always fail and shares Bk. 2: Keir's Fall


Reasons Why Alien Invasions Always Fail.


Hi, I’m Pippa Jay, author of scifi and the supernatural with a romantic soul. I’ve just released book two of my scifi romance series - Redemption - and the main theme of the book is alien invasion. As a SF devotee I’ve read a lot of books and seen a lot of films and TV series that feature our planet being invaded by pesky aliens. So I thought I’d share some reasons why we have nothing to fear if it happened for real.


• Technology. Aliens always think their high tech gadgetry is more powerful than anything us backward little humans have. But as Independence Day proved, a simple computer virus whipped up on an Apple Macintosh Powerbook 5300 can whoop alien ass better than any advanced alien technology you care to mention.

• Human beings. We’re stubborn, aggressive, breed like rabbits, and we’re full of nasty little germs to which no alien is immune! Ask the tripod aliens in the original War of the Worlds if you don’t believe me. Wiped out by germs—how humiliating is that?! Never mind nuclear weapons—just sneeze on 'em!

• Doctor Who. Yes! No matter what invades planet Earth, the sonic screwdriver wielding, ‘never carries weapons’ Time Lord (er, let’s ignore the sword-swinging, ‘no second chances’ #10 and the gun-toting #9) will always save us!

• Numbers mean nothing. Hell, you’re intelligent enough to cross the galaxy in your vast hordes, but that means nada to humans! Yep, no matter how many of you there are and how many of us you kill, someone will always figure out your weakness, whether it be yodeling which makes your super-intelligent brains explode à la Mars Attacks or the silicon in shampoo that makes the giant alien, super-speedy evolving amoeba in Evolution go boom.

• Planet Earth. Okay, if like the aliens in Signs you happen to be vulnerable to water, then Earth is probably the most idiotic place to invade. Bearing in mind the planet is 70% water, and humans themselves are 60% water. Seriously, did NO ONE spot the flaw in that idea?! Or if you happen to have eyes sensitive to sunlight like the gecko-related invaders in Battleship so you can’t see the humans approaching in daylight. Sheesh.

• Bad guys always lose. Yep, invading aliens are always the bad guys, therefore they CANNOT win! Isn't that what Hollywood has always taught us? :P


Keir's Fall
by 
Pippa Jay
Blurb:


A seductive tyrant. A lost hero. And a galaxy about to fall...

It’s been a year in paradise for Keir and Quin, but now the idyll is over. After Quin falls sick, they return to the hidden sanctuary of Lyagnius, and what she learns there will not only change their lives, but set them on a journey that could separate them forever.

When Keir falls victim to a ruthless Nercaandi Empress bent on conquering the galaxy with her cybernetic army, it will take all Quin’s diminishing powers and the help of her son to find him. But what waits for her aboard the tyrant’s ship will test her strength and the limits of their love, and put everything she cares about at risk. Including Keir.

With the galaxy itself about to fall, will she be able to save him?



Review  of Keir’s Fall by Pippa Jay
This is a rather dark, very intense, well written story. I had hoped book two would be lighter, but that didn’t happen. In fact, at times I wasn’t certain anyone was going to survive this book.

The villain was well conceived. How she took control of her army and continued to expand her power was totally credible.

Our hero, Keir, and heroine, Quin, have a great many problems/new revelations to deal with in this story, which impacts them on a survival, emotional, and family level. All are handled very well

There is a false ending where things start to wrap up nicely and then bam! All hell breaks loose. That took me by surprise, and I’m sure it breaks some writing rules about arcs, but I actually liked it once I got through it. During this section, I admit, I was begging Pippa to stop torturing the nice people. I became terrified she’d had a terrible row with her hubby and was going to kill all the good people.  Matters were very bleak indeed, but she must have heard my pleas, because she turned matters nicely so we could end with no one presently dying or being tortured. 

However, I’m pretty sure there are more books in the making and more torture for Quin and Keir. Since the books tend to be addictive, I’ll probably read them as well.



Book Two of the Redemption series and part of the Travellers Universe.

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Bio:

After spending twelve years working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay is now a stay-at-home mum who writes scifi and the supernatural. Somewhere along the way a touch of romance crept into her work and refused to leave. In between torturing her plethora of characters, she spends the odd free moment playing guitar very badly, punishing herself with freestyle street dance, and studying the Dark Side of the Force. Although happily settled in the historical town of Colchester in the UK with her husband of 22 years and three little monsters, she continues to roam the rest of the Universe in her head.

Pippa Jay is a dedicated member of the Science Fiction Romance Brigade, blogging at Spacefreighters Lounge, Adventures in Scifi, and Romancing the Genres. Her works include YA and adult stories crossing a multitude of subgenres from scifi to the paranormal, often with romance, and she’s one of eight authors included in a science fiction romance anthology—Tales from the SFR Brigade. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3rd place), the 2015 EPIC eBook awards, the 2015 RWA LERA Rebecca (2nd place), and the GCC RWA Silken Sands Star Awards (2nd place).

You can stalk her at her website, or at her blog, but without doubt her favorite place to hang around and chat is on Twitter as @pippajaygreen.

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