Scavenger's Mission @Liza0Connor

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Liza O’Connor

How to get along in the SkyRyders. Be male and don’t fly better than your captain. Have your family send their best sweets in your monthly care package so you can give them to your captain. Accept your position as Dog for the first year of training. 

If you are female, expect to be abused, tormented, and diminished, because as far as the captain is concerned, females are only good for one thing. And if you refuse to play, prepare to die.

So what’s going to happen to Alisha when she flies with skills far beyond her captain’s and knows him to be the one who murdered her friend?

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Scavenger’s Mission

Blurb

Meet Alisha: A young woman who refuses to live the life her parents want.

In a single month, Alisha Kane has gone from a wealthy debutante to street girl to scavenger.  While testing her new flying skills in the Cully Canyon, Alisha incurs a near-death crash landing. She’s “rescued” by a colonel of the SkyRyders and her life changes forever.

Meet Logan: A SkyRyder colonel in charge of a sleepy fort with little to do other than arrest the occasional scavenger.

For the first time in his life, Logan’s attracted to a young woman, only she’s probably a scavenger and he’ll have to arrest her.  But first, he offers her a shower and food while he checks on his crew. His videographer has captured her extraordinary flight through the Cully and her flying is astounding!

He forgoes arresting her and puts his career at risk by asking MAC to assess her skills and integrity as a potential SkyRyder. If he can get Alisha into the SkyRyders, it will be his greatest contribution to the Corps.

Meet MAC: The Artifical Intelligence that runs the SkyRyders Corps.

Upon seeing her arrival, MAC upgrades Alisha’s test. Her flying skills are not just excellent; they exceed what was previously thought possible. MAC classifies her as its top asset and soon she proves her value. 

But…the SkyRyders remain a male-dominated Corps where Alisha’s sense of right and wrong often clashes with her superiors. How long can a rebellious young woman survive in a regimented Corps?

Excerpt

After her third stall-out and dunking on the ridge, Alisha attempted to out-climb him, but Washington and Ollie were behind her, diverting a major portion of her wind. All she did was increase the distance of her fall when she stalled. Thank God the suit she wore was three sizes too large, for it helped her to slow the descent and direct her fall into an overhanging tree so the wind-catcher caught in its limbs, preventing her from smashing down onto pointy granite rocks at high speed.

When the tree limbs broke from the force of impact, she still fell and hurt her knee in the tumble, but at least she lived.

She had hoped DC would be satisfied with the results of the day. She’d been thoroughly beaten, humiliated, and humbled. While severe, her injury would not cause him censure. His punishment had been perfectly planned and executed.

To her shock, he commanded her to get up and take another run. Alisha realized something had broken in his twisted mind. It wasn’t his intent to punish her. He planned to kill her.

Thus, Alisha saw no alternative but to fly into the wind farm. Using a standard catcher, death was a probability, but if she didn’t escape DC and his obedient squad, she now realized death was a certainty. If his intent had been anything but murder, he would have stopped after the last crash.

How she managed to turn and steer her clumsy catcher into the farm, she didn’t know. Feigning left, she pulled the catcher hard right, aiming between two rows of invisible blades. The greatest danger was that the wind would blow her catcher into a blade. There would be no recovery. Within seconds of first contact, the blades would reel her in and chop her body into a thousand pieces.

Without question, she’d be safer if she just collapsed her catcher and hit the ground, but if she landed too close to the border of the farm, DC could hunt her down on foot. With her leg busted up, she’d be the slowest rabbit he’d ever bagged.

Alisha held the catcher steady against the west wind until she estimated she was a mile into the farm. She released her harness at the exact same time she collapsed her catcher. She hoped it would fall safely to the ground and not wrap up in a wind generator, but if it did, she sure as hell didn’t want to follow it up.

She hit the ground favoring her strong leg, but it didn’t matter. The pain was so intense that she rolled into a ball, trying desperately not to black out.

“Get up,” she warned herself. “Hide the catcher and get away from here.”

Somehow Alisha forced herself to move farther into the farm. She didn’t worry about leaving prints in the sand. The wind blew so hard any footprints disappeared in seconds.

After walking over half a mile east into the farm, she noticed blood dripping from her knee. She unzipped her suit and pulled off her shirt, wrapping it tightly around the open wound. The pressure hurt like hell, but she had to stop the bleeding. While the sand covered the drops of blood in seconds, the tracking gear DC had could still follow it.

Realizing they had to be close behind, she altered her direction and headed south.

A sense of danger made her turn around. When she did, she saw the laser bead on her shoulder. She weaved through the windmill posts, hoping the metal would confuse the bullet as it attempted to follow the path to its target. When she heard the bullet ricochet on metal, she stopped for a moment and re-assessed the situation.

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Scavenger’s Mission

By

Liza O’Connor

When a colonel realizes he’s lost control of his squad.

What happens when a good colonel discovers he has abandoned his squad to a captain unfit to command? He blames himself and thinks about resigning due to his utter failure to protect his squad. 

Every member of the squad, except for Alisha, doesn’t believe the colonel can save them from an early death if they piss DC off.  And frankly, they’re correct. Unfortunately, Colonel Logan has a general who thinks he’s the problem. Every time Logan attempts to modify DC’s behavior, the captain sends a complaint to General Powel and Logan gets slammed by the General.

His crew knows DC is the one who holds the power, and if they want to live, they had better keep him happy. So when DC decides Alisha should crash and die on the ridge, his crew obeys his orders. When Alisha survives the crash, and he orders them to run it again, she does something no sane person would ever do. She flies into the wind farm. Even for Alisha the chances of surviving were slim, but she knew death would be certain on the ridge.

By a miracle, she survived and landed in the massive 200,000-acre wind farm.  But DC couldn’t let her leave the wind farm alive. Unlike his crew, she was not broken, and would undoubtedly bring charges against him.

Scavenger’s Mission

By Liza O’Connor

Blurb

Meet Alisha: A young woman who refuses to live the life her parents want.

In a single month, Alisha Kane has gone from a wealthy debutante to street girl to scavenger.  While testing her new flying skills in the Cully Canyon, Alisha incurs a near-death crash landing. She’s “rescued” by a colonel of the SkyRyders and her life changes forever.

Meet Logan: A SkyRyder colonel in charge of a sleepy fort with little to do other than arrest the occasional scavenger.

For the first time in his life, Logan’s attracted to a young woman, only she’s probably a scavenger and he’ll have to arrest her.  But first he offers her a shower and food while he checks on his crew. His videographer has captured her extraordinary flight through the Cully and her flying is astounding!

He forgoes arresting her and puts his career at risk by asking MAC to assess her skills and integrity as a potential SkyRyder. If he can get Alisha into the SkyRyders, it will be his greatest contribution to the Corps.

Meet MAC: The Artifical Intelligence that runs the SkyRyders Corps.

Upon seeing her arrival, MAC upgrades Alisha’s test. Her flying skills are not just excellent; they exceed what was previously thought possible. MAC classifies her as its top asset and soon she proves her value. 

But…the SkyRyders remain a male-dominated Corps where Alisha’s sense of right and wrong often clashes with her superiors. How long can a rebellious young woman survive in a regimented Corps?

Excerpt

“Sir, if you have opened an official inquiry into today’s events, according to regulations, as captain, I should be running the investigation.”

“You might want to reread your regs again, Captain. As commanding officer, I may take lead on any inquiry I deem necessary.”

DC still didn’t back down. “I must officially object to your interference in my command again, sir.”

“Object all you like, Captain. I trust you know the procedure as well as any soldier in the Corps.”

“Regulations still allow me to be present during the interviews, sir.”

“No, Captain. They certainly do not.”

“Sir, Regulation 4.593 states—”

Logan cut him off. “You obviously missed the exceptions to the reg. An officer will be excluded from any inquiry that may implicate said officer in possible infractions or misjudgments.”

DC paused before replying but still looked as if he expected to win the argument. “I was under the impression this concerned the actions leading to the injury of Trainee Kane.”

“That is correct.”

“Then respectfully, sir, I must point out the regulations exempt you from opening the inquiry.”

“How so, Captain?” Logan asked, truly amazed at DC’s objection. This bastard sure as hell didn’t back down.

“Because, sir, it was you who recruited and placed into my squad an untrained and unlicensed flyer. The fact she came to harm during exercises today is solely your responsibility.”

“Then you don’t consider your own actions in any way at fault?”

“No, sir, I have a duty to my crew and the Corps not to lower the standards of training. To do so would endanger every man on my squad. I believe it better we weed out inferior trainees immediately. Just because you’re screwing her doesn’t make her a flyer. If you want to keep her here as your whore, I’ll turn a blind eye. But I can’t let you place her on the squad, sir. She’s not fit. She proved that today.” Then he smiled.

It took every bit of Logan’s control not to pound DC’s smirking face into the wall. He knew that was precisely what the bastard wanted. One blow and an official inquiry would be started on him, and his own inquiry would be placed on hold until resolution of the new charge. And the hall camera would nail him as guilty.

When he finally had control, he gave DC his coldest smile. “You no doubt meant to goad me with your absurd claim, but it won’t work.”

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Scavenger’s Mission

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How MAC reads your mind.

MAC is a scary AI. It can read your mind, but not directly. It does it by projecting images of what you are thinking about in a room that is wall to wall sensors. When the average person realizes that whatever they think will appear on the wall, they will try NOT to think of the items they don’t want MAC to know, but that just highlights those memories.

Thus, for most people, the ethics assessment is an exhausting and brutal experience. Some have almost died from the assessment. It leaves no stone unturned.

It begins, letting the viewer believe they can control the images on the wall based on what they eat. (Lunch is served at the first of the test). But this sense of control soon ceases and upon discovering they have no control over what MAC sees, every bad thing they’ve ever done tends to show up.

Alisha is either an exceptionally good person or she’s very forgiving of her sins, because she scores higher in ethics than any Ryder has ever done. And she falls asleep at the end of her test. (Most are retching in the bucket located by their chair.)

Scavenger’s Mission

By Liza O’Connor

Blurb

Meet Alisha: A young woman who refuses to live the life her parents want.

In a single month, Alisha Kane has gone from a wealthy debutante to street girl to scavenger.  While testing her new flying skills in the Cully Canyon, Alisha incurs a near-death crash landing. She’s “rescued” by a colonel of the SkyRyders and her life changes forever.

Meet Logan: A SkyRyder colonel in charge of a sleepy fort with little to do other than arrest the occasional scavenger.

For the first time in his life, Logan’s attracted to a young woman, only she’s probably a scavenger and he’ll have to arrest her.  But first, he offers her a shower and food while he checks on his crew. His videographer has captured her extraordinary flight through the Cully and her flying is astounding!

He forgoes arresting her and puts his career at risk by asking MAC to assess her skills and integrity as a potential SkyRyder. If he can get Alisha into the SkyRyders, it will be his greatest contribution to the Corps.

Meet MAC: The Artificial Intelligence that runs the SkyRyders Corps.

Upon seeing her arrival, MAC upgrades Alisha’s test. Her flying skills are not just excellent; they exceed what was previously thought possible. MAC classifies her as its top asset and soon she proves her value. 

But…the SkyRyders remain a male-dominated Corps where Alisha’s sense of right and wrong often clashes with her superiors. How long can a rebellious young woman survive in a regimented Corps?

Excerpt

When Alisha completed the regs test, she ate her lunch in a windowless room with no furniture other than a chair, a small table and a trash can. She had barely taken a bite when images appeared on the walls. Some were terrible, some sensual, and others were funny.

Over time, Alisha sensed a pattern. The really horrible images followed every time she ate a portion of the meat. The sensual items appeared when she ate the vegetables, and the Jell-O brought up funny pictures. Alisha avoided the meat and enjoyed the remainder of her meal.

When she finished her lunch, an image of Colonel Logan appeared on the wall, which surprised her, because she’d just been thinking about him. He looked so stern, and then suddenly he smiled at her. She couldn’t help but smile back. Images of him carrying her out of the wind farm, tending her knee in the tub, examining her for injuries, and then the two of them sleeping appeared on the wall. How did they get those pictures? she wondered.

Suddenly the images were replaced with DC’s. Her smile disappeared. She watched as he slammed her against the corner of the bed, as he grabbed her breast and twisted her nipple. The image changed to the ridge. He flew above her and stalled her out on the rocks. The image repeated with a similar result on the second run. The third was different only because she had gained more altitude, but that just made her fall more spectacular and deadly. She re-lived the pain when the tree gave way and her knee smashed into the rock ledge. Her knee throbbed now.

The images changed to the fourth run, her crash into the wind farm and her failure to notice her blood trail until it was almost too late. Seeing the laser bead on her shoulder, she weaved through the wind turbines, trying to confuse the laser’s tracking sensor.

Alisha felt the same emotions as she watched herself—the same fear, the same fatigue, and the same hopelessness.

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Scavenger’s Mission

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Top ten things that riles Alisha into action

10) Not retreating when there is no hope of winning.  The first day as a captain, Alisha challenges the general because his stupid plan is going to get everyone killed.

9) Generals who berate her when she says she has specialized flying skills, assuming a woman can’t fly. Thankfully MAC and her colonel insisted she could fly into the wind, even though everyone believes that to be impossible.

8) Colonel Logan, who makes love to her one night then declares it a mistake that won’t happen again.

7)Stupid regs that are used to punish a Ryder after the fact when all they did was obey orders. Yes, Ollie tried to kill her, but he was only following the orders of a demented captain. So the fault was Colonel Logan’s for allowing a demented captain to lead his squad.  (She is so pissed about this reg, she refuses to go on her next mission until MAC removes this reg forever!)

6) The way everyone assumes Alisha is sleeping around. She was a 21-year-old virgin until she and Logan got it on one time. But rumor has it she and Colonel Sparks are lovers and no one will believe her when she tells them that’s not true!

5) Alisha is really angry at her parents. First and foremost because they abandoned her gramps and when she found him living in a dangerous apartment in Capital, he was almost dead.

4) Alisha’s also angry at her parents because they planned to drug her so when she woke up she’d be the new wife of the President of the Americas. Sounds like a great marriage for a debutante, but the guy made her skin crawl every time he’d stop by to enjoy her mother, so Alisha climbed out a window and ran away instead.

3) When Alisha discovers signs on two showers declaring them the private use of the former captain and his lieutenant, leaving the rest of the squad to use the third stall that has no door, she loses it!

2) Alisha hates that she can’t visit her gramps. Colonel Logan has moved him to Broadtown and assures her that her grandfather is fine, but she won’t stop worrying until she can see for herself. So many people have lied to her: Her parents, Colonel Logan…

1) The person Alisha hates the most is the SkyRyder who killed her best friend, when she lived on the streets of Capital. He beat Betty to death because she refused to ‘service’ him if he wouldn’t pay. Needless to say, Alisha is not happy when she discovers he is her new captain. When he nearly kills her the first day she flies with the squad, finally Colonel Logan realizes he has a demented captain. But until MAC reassesses DC there is little Logan can do, and since the General likes DC, matters look very dangerous.

Scavenger’s Mission

By Liza O’Connor

Blurb

Meet Alisha: A young woman who refuses to live the life her parents want.

In a single month, Alisha Kane has gone from a wealthy debutante to street girl to scavenger.  While testing her new flying skills in the Cully Canyon, Alisha incurs a near-death crash landing. She’s “rescued” by a colonel of the SkyRyders and her life changes forever.

Meet Logan: A SkyRyder colonel in charge of a sleepy fort with little to do other than arrest the occasional scavenger.

For the first time in his life, Logan’s attracted to a young woman, only she’s probably a scavenger and he’ll have to arrest her.  But first he offers her a shower and food while he checks on his crew. His videographer has captured her extraordinary flight through the Cully and her flying is astounding!

He forgoes arresting her and puts his career at risk by asking MAC to assess her skills and integrity as a potential SkyRyder. If he can get Alisha into the SkyRyders, it will be his greatest contribution to the Corps.

Meet MAC: The Artificial Intelligence that runs the SkyRyders Corps.

Upon seeing her arrival, MAC upgrades Alisha’s test. Her flying skills are not just excellent; they exceed what was previously thought possible. MAC classifies her as its top asset and soon she proves her value. 

But…the SkyRyders remain a male-dominated Corps where Alisha’s sense of right and wrong often clashes with her superiors. How long can a rebellious young woman survive in a regimented Corps?

Excerpt

“If the men can learn this drop, it’s a much better attack plan,” Sparkes said.

“That’s a big if, and if they can’t, then we’ve let half the drugs fly off pissing the morning away.”

Ensuring her voice remained respectful, she replied, “No, sir. You’ll lose no more than ten percent, and it’s just black market medicine. The dangerous drugs will still be there.”

“We could send a squad out to pick up the morning dealers after they buy,” Sparkes offered.

Her friend Denny would be buying in the morning, and if she didn’t do something, he’d probably die out there. She had clearly heard the general give clearance to kill anyone involved. He didn’t want arrests; he wanted eliminations.

 “You go anywhere near one of the morning dealers and we’ve lost the advantage of surprise. The little dealers are used to test the lanes and make sure everything is okay. All it would take is one squeak, and these guys would be ready for World War Four.”

“So you’re saying we should just let these criminals fly out of there with their newly purchased drugs?” Powell asked in outrage. “You seem to have an odd idea about what the Corps stands for!”

Matching his outrage, she volleyed back. “I’m focused on getting ten thousand kilos of Phantasia off the market. And the Ryders we’ll save in a surprise attack. If letting a black market dealer selling arthritis medicine slip through is the price we have to pay to succeed, I think it’s a damn low cost.”

Everyone fell utterly silent. She might be the first captain ever to have yelled at a general. It would probably cost her big time, but to save Denny, she had to try.

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Research is the backbone of all stories

It's how we make our stories credible.

Since most of book one takes place in New Zealand, a place I spent many months in before I wrote this novel, these two books hold a special place in my heart.

A legal issue popped up when my FBI agent assures star quarterback Chad Tyler that he can tell him anything since he hasn’t read him his Miranda Rights. Only neither Chad nor the FBI are presently in the United States. They are in New Zealand. And the woman was murdered in New Zealand.

So off I go researching whether New Zealand has something like 'Miranda Rights'.

The FBI agent assures him whatever he says is not on record, and points out he hasn't read him his Miranda Rights. 

Since the FBI agent is in New Zealand, reading him USA rights wouldn't stand up in a court of law, but then he just wanted to get Chad talking, by making him feel safe.

But it did get me wondering. Does New Zealand have Miranda rights and what do they call them—surly NOT Miranda Rights— for while we like to name things after people, New Zealand seems more forthright.

They actually have three versions of Rights Caution: Different versions for adults, young adults, and children. That actually makes very good sense, given the slow formation of brains for children and young adults.

Adults: Rights Caution:

The following advice should be provided to people who are arrested or detained, or where police want to question someone where there is sufficient evidence to charge that person with an offence:

·      You have been arrested/detained for (give reason) [OR]

·       I am speaking to you about (give reason)

·      You have the right to remain silent.

·      You do not have to make any statement.

·    Anything you say will be recorded and may be given in evidence in court.

·     You have the right to speak with a lawyer without delay and in private before deciding whether to answer any questions.

·     Police have a list of lawyers you may speak to for free.

Note: If the advice is given before the suspect is arrested or detained, the advice must be repeated when the suspect is arrested or detained.

Sounds much like ours, right?

Actually, I believe theirs is far more restrictive to their police in practice.

Then I pondered about guns and was happy to discover New Zealand has a far stricter policy there as well.

There is very little likelihood that the New Zealand police will shoot you during an arrest, since patrol officers on standard duty don’t carry guns. Only the Diplomatic Protection Squad and airport officers are armed.

In fact, a New Zealand police commissioner went so far as to say wearing guns would impede an officers job since he would be focused on protecting his gun rather than resolving the situation.  He also went on to state protection by a pistol is illusionary.

Just a footnote: New Zealand has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world.

So now you know. The police will not kill you, but the many fabulous adventures you can take in New Zealand might. There’s also active volcanoes and earthquakes to worry about. But a finer group of people, in a more beautiful country, you’ll never meet.

Public Secrets

Book 1 of the AI Sci-Rom Series

By

Liza O’Connor

Blurb

Carla Simon is a best-selling novelist besieged by death threats and lawsuits because her stories keep turning out to be true. She is considered an extraordinary researcher, uncovering facts unknown by field experts.

The truth is far simpler and more disturbing. Carla has a software program that “fixes” her mistakes and rewrites her novels so they are error-proof both in presentation and in content. The result is beautifully written and completely accurate stories about real people and events.

Some of those people want her silenced forever. `But first, she has to survive the assassin who has never failed to deliver on a contract.

Excerpt

Chad: “I can’t believe this. She didn’t know who I was.”

The FBI agent: Luke snorted his disbelief. “Oh, she knew who you were. She knew all your secrets. Secrets that no one would ever want to be revealed. Your sister’s rape by your cousin, her suicide attempts. Your mother’s drinking problem caused by your father’s frequent infidelities. Your gay roommate in college, who crawled into your bed one night when you had both drunk too much.”

***

Chad stared at the agent in shock as he felt his world crumble beneath him. My God! How could she have known those things? They’d been buried so deep within the family shame that no one, not even family members, spoke of them. He forced himself to breathe through the pain that gripped his heart. He’d thought her the woman of his dreams, but instead, she’d been his worst nightmare.

“May I see this book?” he finally asked.

“Sorry, it could be key evidence in your murder trial.”

Chad looked up, reeling from yet another blow. “You think I killed her?”

“She was going to destroy your life. What choice did you have?”

“You’ve got the wrong guy!”

“I haven’t read you your Miranda rights,” Luke pointed out. “You can safely tell me the truth.”

“I didn’t kill her,” he insisted. “I didn’t even know about the book. Surely there must be other suspects besides me.”

“A few hundred, but you make the top. You have the best motive. You might have prevented her from revealing your secrets, whereas everyone else could only act on revenge since their secrets have already been exposed. Secondly, you and your assistant, Davis Grimes, are the only two we’ve found in New Zealand.”

“Well, it wasn’t me, nor did I hire someone to do it. In fact, I thought I might have fallen in love with her.”

“Betrayal is a strong motivator...”

“But I didn’t know her intent until now. I still can’t believe... She seemed so real, so sweet.”

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About Liza

Liza O’Connor was raised badly by feral cats, left the South/Midwest and wandered off to find nicer people on the east coast. There she worked for the meanest man on Wall Street, while her psychotic husband tried to kill her three times. (So much for finding nicer people.) Then one day she declared enough, got a better job, divorced her husband, and fell in love with her new life where people behaved nicely. But all those bad behaviors have given her lots of fodder for her books. Please buy these books, because otherwise, she’ll become grumpy and write troubled novels instead. They will likely traumatize you.

You have been warned.

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Surviving Outbound — Earth is doomed, but the odds of surviving outbound isn’t much better.

Surviving Terranue — Welcome to Terranue. Prepare to be baked, pummeled, and frozen. But first, you’ll have to survive the black death growing in the cliffs.

Surviving Sojourn — You know you have reason to worry when a hyper-grown one-year-old is made captain of the ship.

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Scavenger's Mission  -- From Debutante to Street Girl/Scavenger to Sky Ryder. Alisha proves to be the most extraordinary flier ever known. 

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Scavenger Falters -- Alisha is promoted to Colonel in charge of Flight Instruction. Only there is far more than flying required and she falters on the other duties.

Scavanger Vanishes -- Alisha gives up. All she wants is out! The General hates her, the other colonels are abusive. And Logan, the only man she has ever loved betrays her. So she disappears and goes into hiding as a massive manhunt begins, not just by the Corp, but by the President of the America's, who wishes to break her before he kills her.

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