About the Book
Title: Rimrider
Author: L.A. Kelley
Genre: YA Space Opera
Teenager Jane
Benedict is awakened by her father and ordered to memorize a mysterious code.
Hours later, Mathias Benedict is dead and Jane and her brother, Will, are wards
of United Earth Corporation. To evade the company's murderous clutches and
uncover the meaning of her father’s last message, Jane leads Will on a
desperate escape across the galaxy aboard the Freetrader smuggler ship, Solar
Vortex. Tangled in the crew’s fight against UEC, Jane saves the life of young
smuggler Maclan Sawyer and learns her father’s code identifies a secret cargo
shipment that can spell doom for the entire Freetrader cause and the extinction
of an alien race.
Piracy, intrigue, romance, and a
daring rebellion from Earth wait on the planet Rimrock. Will Jane answer the
call to adventure and find new purpose on the galactic rim or will death for
high treason be her fate?
Author Bio
I’m the author of
seven fantasy and science fiction adventure novels with smart female characters more comfortable with thinking
rather than shooting their way out of a tricky situation. Rimrider
is the newest and the first book in the Rimrock Adventures series. The second, Outlaw Jane,
is also available with the third due in 2017. The story arc is a nod to the
American Revolution, but with space colonists as the Yankees and Earth as the
redcoats. A reader can expect to find an element of fantasy and sweet romance,
humor, space battles and conflict, but no gore.
Florida is my home.
The state is a good place for speculative fiction since most people speculate
the heat and humidity here have driven residents slightly mad. I can’t argue
that. In my spare time I enjoy calling in Bigfoot sightings to the Department
of Fish and Wildlife. They are heartily sick of hearing from me.
Rimrider is available
for 99 cents on Amazon or free for members of Kindle Unlimited.
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Book Excerpt
As the train came to a
halt, Jane grabbed her backpack and exited. Sweepers patrolled the platform. A
group of men and women dressed in gray utilitarian coveralls descended from the
first car. Their ankles bound with electronic shackles—more workers headed to
the mine.
Pity tugged at Jane’s
heart. Her eyes followed as they shuffled past to waiting transportation.
One of those people
used to be Adelyn.
An edgy sensation
traveled along her spine. One of them
could be me if I’m not careful in Golgotha.
The scent of cooking
tickled her nose. A man in a kiosk sold balls of fried sweet bread. Jane eyed
them with regret. No use dreaming. Her credits were earned on the Solar Vortex.
She couldn’t spend them here without raising questions. Breakfast had to wait.
She asked the man at the kiosk for directions to the admin office, and he
grunted a response.
Jane shouldered her
backpack. Her stomach rumbled as she got another whiff of fried dough. “Stop
it,” she muttered to herself. “Besides, have you seen the prices he’s charging?
Four credits for fried sweet bread? Lyla would have a fit.”
The admin office sat
next to the station. It was still closed, so Jane wandered to the platform and
sat on a bench. Everyone had gone except a single sweeper and the man at the
kiosk. An errant breeze wafted another scent of fried bread in her direction.
She sighed.
Goosebumps rose on
Jane’s arms with the uncanny notion of being watched. Jane looked left and
right. Neither the sweeper nor vendor paid her any attention. She shifted on
the seat as the feeling grew stronger. A tickling sensation prickled the back
of her head. Jane turned around. The little golden creature peered at her from
a tree limb.
Jane stood and gazed
into those striking eyes. Was it the same animal she noticed from the train?
Hungry.
Jane started. She
glanced back and forth searching for the source of the whisper, but no one
except the creature was near. She scratched her head. How weird was that? She
was now hungrier than ever. The whispered word increased the sensation of an
empty stomach, as if the desire to eat wasn’t hers alone.
“I must have breakfast
on the brain,” Jane muttered, eyeing the fried sweet bread piled on the kiosk.
The poor thing sure looked as if it needed a meal. “If I had four credits to
spare, I’d buy you a plate.”
The sweeper near the
kiosk turned in her direction. His eyes narrowed as he peered over her
shoulder. He raised the laser gun and pointed the barrel at the creature.
“No!” she yelled.
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