Bøger af Greta Van Der Rol

Three complete stories from the Dryden universe starring Tian, Brent - and PussEye of the MotherWhen fate throws Brent Walker and Tian Axmar together, it's strictly a business arrangement. She's an Imperial agent with a problem to solve, he's a space jockey with an empty bank balance and a tramp freighter for hire. Somebody's murdering Yrmaks and Humans. Somebody wants interspecies war. Tian hires Brent to help her investigate. It's an increasingly dangerous game, with more than just lives at stake. Before it's over Brent and Tian will be faced with choices which will change both of them forever.For the Greater GoodA Human settlement is destroyed and all signs point to an Yrmak raid as Tian and Brent scour the site for clues. They never expected to find a survivor, a rare alien feline with special abilities. They uncover a devious plot to incite an interspecies war designed to strike at the very heart of the Empire. With lives at risk, there's no time to waste. Racing against the clock, Brent, Tian, and Puss must stop the planned carnage, and this time for Brent and Tian... it's personal.RetributionTensions simmer on a world where Humans blame Yrmaks for their defeat in a recent war. For Celia Whitley, former head of Imperial Security and director of Humans First, it's a great place to incite an interspecies war. All it takes is money and weapons - and she can organize both. Revenge over the Yrmaks who murdered her husband will be hers. Tian and Brent scramble to prevent a war from spilling over to engulf the Empire. But interspecies war is not the only vengeance Whitley wants. Tian, Brent and Puss will need all of their abilities to prevent the cruelest blow of all.

Somewhere out in space, humanity's past is about to catch up with its future. When Morgan Selwood's spaceship is stranded in unknown space she is relieved to be rescued by humanoid aliens. But her unusual appearance and her extraordinary technical abilities mean that everybody wants a piece of her. Who's it to be? Autocratic Admiral Ravindra, who press-gangs her to help against a shadowy threat from the stars, or the freedom fighters who think she's a legend reincarnated, returned to help them throw off the yoke of oppression? Morgan doesn't much care which it is until the uprising and the atrocities start. While civil war rages across the planet the shadowy threat from the stars emerges as an implacable killer bent on destroying all intelligent life. Morgan will need every bit of her superhuman, bio-engineered intelligence to save the man she has come to love and his people from annihilation. And spare a little to save herself.

When opposites attract, explosions are sure to follow...Sara York's fight began during a bloody episode on her planet that left her vowing justice. Now, she hides her true identity behind a respectable job as a freight operator. Her mission is simple: orchestrate raids, hijacks, and piracy to support the rebels.Everything was going according to plan until Fyn reappeared in her life.Confederacy Fleet Admiral Fyn Nielsen's new assignment is to assist the ruler of a distant world to help eliminate piracy and smuggling. The last person he expects to see is Sara. He has never forgotten the woman who saved his life nearly a decade ago.What might have been a simple reunion becomes a dangerous game of subterfuge between the rebel and the military admiral sworn to stop her.As Sara and Fyn struggle with the growing love between them, they each face tough choices. If Sara risks everything, including her heart, will Fyn be there to catch her... or will he imprison her as a traitor?If you like Star Wars and Star Trek, you'll like this. It's a space opera romance with closed-door sex.

When you delve into ancient history you never know what strange forces you might unleash. When Morgan Selwood and Admiral Ashkar Ravindra travel to Morgan's Human Coalition to learn more about the origin of Ravindra's people, their relationship is soon sorely tested. Morgan is amongst her own people and Ravindra is overprotective and insecure, afraid of losing her. But not everyone is keen to welcome Morgan home, not when they'd gone to all that trouble to get rid of her in the first place. Soon Morgan and Ravindra have a rogue Supertech on their trail with only one goal - kill Selwood. Together, Morgan and Ravindra follow a tenuous trail back into humanity's past, to the time historians call the Conflagration. But what begins as an innocent archaeological investigation escalates into a deadly peril for both humans and Manesai when Morgan and Ravindra are thrust into the middle of an unexpected conflict. And that rogue Supertech's still out there, itching for revenge.

Follow your dreams. You never know where they might take you.Jirra's on the run, Siena's rescuing her lover, Toreni wants Master Chef status and Chet wants her reputation back. Four women, four goals, and one very small ship. Add a fleet request to free a rebel, the promise of little to no help and a caste-defined society simmering with discontent on the edge of explosion. Now, on their own, they're staging an escape from a backwater prison planet and navigating the murky terrain of dreams forbidden by the rigid caste system underpinning their culture. Success demands more than team work. They'll have to jettison their own prejudices and forge relationships free of the rules and caste lines.There's more than just lives at stake. There's dreams and a possible tomorrow more fragile than gossamer.

New York is no place for a tiger - not for weretiger Sally Carter or for the white tiger she finds in a Harlem basement, guarding an enormous stash of heroin. Sally's daring rescue of the tiger attracts journalist Dave Gardner, who sniffs a story and a lead to a drug baron he's being trying to nail for years. While Sally is determined that the white tiger will find a home in a sanctuary, Gardner follows a tenuous trail from the tiger back to the drug cache - and a whole lot of trouble. Soon Sally and her weretiger husband find themselves mixed up in a drug baron's plot for revenge where even their amazing weretiger talents may not be enough to save Gardner - or themselves.

Grand Admiral Chaka Saahren has the rewards of rank ...but he doesn't have Systems Engineer Allysha Marten. Determined to keep her safe, Saahren will go to any lengths to win back the woman he loves. Allysha agrees to temporary employment by the Fleet, hoping to avoid at all costs the man she believes responsible for the death of innocent civilians, including her estranged father. Sean O'Reilly has a plan... ...and it involves hijacking Allysha and convincing her, one way or another, to do just one more job-a job that would clear his debts and save his hide. Allysha Marten must come to terms with her feelings... ...in the face of a reality that suggests she is a pawn in a growing power struggle, one where she will need all her skills and cunning to outwit a heinous plot that could result in the loss of billions of human lives. When Allysha decides to tackle the conspirators on her own, she forces an impossible choice on... The Iron Admiral.

Amid rising inter-species tensions, brilliant systems Engineer Allysha Marten takes one last job to rid her of debts and her cheating husband. On the mysterious planet Tisyphor a security guard wins her trust and her affection. Together, they uncover a plot that threatens to plunge the Galaxy into inter-species war. As they scramble to prevent the coming holocaust, Allysha is horrified to learn that her new lover is ex-Admiral Chaka Saahren, the man the Ptorix call Chozhu the Destroyer, the man responsible for the death of her father, along with millions of other innocent civilians. In a race against time, Saahren must convince Allysha to set aside her conflicted emotions about him to help him prevent the coming conflagration. And perhaps while he's doing that, he'll win back the only woman he's ever loved.

He haunts the jungle - and her dreams When Dr. Sally Carter travels to India to regroup from a broken heart the last thing she wants is to fall in love. But Raja Asoka (Ash) Bhosle is entirely too attractive to ignore, even though she knows it can only end in tears. Hers. Ash guards a secret that lives in legend, protecting tigers from mindless slaughter. From the moment he sets eyes on the Australian doctor, he wants her, despite the objections of his mother and her unsuitability as a wife. While Ash fights tiger poachers, Sally struggles against cultural prejudice and increasingly vivid nightmares. Can the Legend of the Black Tiger be the bond that brings her and Ash closer together, or will it rip them apart? The closer Sally comes to understanding what the legend means, the more frequent the nightmares become. Is she losing her sanity, or is there more to Sally than she herself knows?

Surviving the shipwreck was the easy part 1629. Shipwrecked on an uncharted reef thirty miles off the coast of Australia, two hundred men, women and children scramble ashore on tiny, hostile islands. There is no fresh water and the only food is what they can salvage from the wreck, or harvest from the sea. The ship's officers set out in an open boat on a two-thousand-mile journey across uncharted ocean to seek help. But there's not enough food and water for everyone on the islands to last until a rescue ship arrives. One man will stop at nothing to ensure that he is among the survivors. But adversity throws up heroes. Soon there's war between two groups, both determined to be there to greet that rescue ship when it arrives. If it arrives. The terrifying true story of the Batavia shipwreck. Contains graphic violence.

Surviving the shipwreck was the easy part1629. Shipwrecked on an uncharted reef thirty miles off the coast of Australia, two hundred men, women and children scramble ashore on tiny, hostile islands. There is no fresh water and the only food is what they can salvage from the wreck, or harvest from the sea.The ship's officers set out in an open boat on a two-thousand-mile journey across uncharted ocean to seek help. But there's not enough food and water for everyone on the islands to last until a rescue ship arrives. One man will stop at nothing to ensure that he is among the survivors.But adversity throws up heroes. Soon there's war between two groups, both determined to be there to greet that rescue ship when it arrives. If it arrives.The terrifying true story of the Batavia shipwreck.