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Arcadia Series
Broken: A Romantic Science Fiction Eco Adventure (Arcadia Book 4)
A fabled earth analogue, paradise world, or a planet facing disaster?
Arcadia is the most perfect Earth Analogue world in all the Alliance – a world on which plenty are eager to settle in place of the present owners if they keep abusing their world. That’s what the Galactic Alliance has threatened, and the Alliance never makes false promises. Arcadians must change how they treat their world, or they will be removed. But too many Arcadians refuse to believe the threat is real, and a band of conspirators will use any means possible to hold onto their wealth and profits, including kidnap, blackmail, maybe even assassination. The Federal Marshals ask Cumchdach den Coille to infiltrate the conspiracy and expose it.
Cumchdach has known since their teens that he’d marry his beloved Anna one day. But not that conspiracies and business fraud would come between them. When Anna’s father defrauds Cumchdach’s family company, Anna leaves him, taking their baby.
As one the top botanists on Arcadia, Anna den Coille specialises in how plants work together and within their ecosystem to best thrive. Work needed by her government to help fix their world. Then she is betrayed by her father, which doesn’t surprise her. But Cumchdach’s betrayal threatens to destroy her. Even worse, her snarled up family connections and special skills make her a target for their enemies.
Can Anna and Cumchdach survive long enough to expose their enemies and save their world—and save their marriage?
Exiled (Arcadia Book 3)
Sentenced to exile by his home world, he’s hungry for revenge. Only he isn’t innocent and Alliance space is no safe haven.
When off-worlders promise Seolta den Coille revenge against those who helped falsely imprison him, he grabs hold with both fists. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t end well and he’s banished into exile. All that does is give his hunt for vengeance a few more targets. Top of the list, the two off-worlders who lured him into betraying his home world.
Anyara a Prithand2 wants only two things in life: to be left in peace to manage the biota systems of her space station, and to avoid giving her uncle an excuse to kill her. When a newcomer to her home world offers to help her escape, she accepts. Now she just has to survive the adventure - and the unexpected desire flaring to life between them.
Chased across Alliance space by their enemies, Seolta and Anyara’s only chance lies with the Alliance Council, the overall governing body of settled space. An organisation as riven with political strife as the enemies they are fleeing.
Can the cleverest of the den Coilles and the habitat worlds’ best biome scientist stay alive long enough to expose those threatening their worlds?
Taken: (Arcadia Book 2)
Fix your planet before we have to, warns the Alliance.
All Ethan Winter ever wanted was to run his family’s solar energy business. But that business has been attacked, he’s been imprisoned and brutalised, his planet threatened, and to save them he must work with a woman set on fighting him every step of the way. The planet Arcadia’s environment is dangerously unbalanced and the Alliance is demanding they fix it or lose their home world. The Alliance of Human Worlds doesn’t make empty threats.
Union organiser, daughter of a workshop supervisor and a fiery politician, Sarwenna Beren is set for battle from the moment Ethan Winter arrives at her remote desert town surrounded by rumours of change. He’s rich, powerful and heir to the family that owns the town’s main business. His arrival threatens the jobs of all those who have put their trust in her. Sar isn’t about to let him shut down the one place keeping her town alive.
Then a frightened boy runs off into to the desert. Ethan’s flyer is his best hope of rescue, but he needs Sarwenna’s local knowledge. Together they try to trace the boy’s flight—only to come under attack from a strange beam and an unknown flyer that nearly kills them both. Ethan and Sarwenna must find out find out who is behind the mysterious attacks and why before they succeed. It doesn’t help that both have their own suspicions about who is helping their attackers. Suspicions that must be kept secret, especially from each other.
You don’t betray family.
Torn (Arcadia Book 1)
When settlers push a planet to its limits, can two star-crossed eco-engineers save it? Environment, meet hardheaded opposites.
Eons ago, ecological engineers like Caleb and Fee terraformed their world to suit its new settlers. But now the settlers have made too many changes, greed overtaking science, and the planet Arcadia is threatened with environmental collapse. Only the men and women of the Ecological Survey can save it..
"Storms, floods, drought. Don’t bother taking your pick," says the planet, "you’re going to get the lot."
When the Survey sends tree-loving Fee to help make a lake smack in the middle of Caleb’s desert plains, he’s less than thrilled. He loves his dusty homeland, as does his family. If they knew what Caleb and Fee were doing, they’d run them out of town. So the two must work in secret, altering entire landscapes before the locals find out and try to stop them. An impossible task, surely, when the only things they have in common are a love for the places they must change and an unwanted mutual chemistry.
But why Fee and Caleb, and what does the Survey truly plan for them?
An exciting mix of science fiction adventure and romance, this is space opera for the environmental age.
Aftermath (Hathe Book 3)
War or Peace. It doesn't matter. There is always an enemy.
SFR Galaxy Award winner 2019 - Potent Post-War Setting Award.
Jacquel des Trurains of the planet Hathe knows all about enemies. He’s spent years as a resistance agent battling the Terran invaders of his home world. Now the war is over, but Hathe has been left divided and hurting. Years of oppression have left their mark on every dirtsider who stayed behind. The other Hathians who fled to the moon have now returned to their lost homes, but the greed of a few threatens all of Hathe. Someone has to fix it, and who better than a decorated leader of the Resistance. Jacquel is sent back into battle, but this time it’s to restore his home world. Then Jacquel’s bosses decide he needs help.
A gifted diplomat, Rheia asn Postrova spent the war off-world, playing twisted games to protect the secrets of Hathe. Talk, promise, beg; whatever it took to stop the other worlds betraying Hathe’s schemes to the Terrans. She's paid her dues to Hathe. All she wants now is to hide in peace. Unfortunately, her boss has other ideas.
Together, Jacquel and Rheia must find a way to heal their home. But Jacquel has lost too many already. Can he risk losing—or loving—one more? And Rheia has secrets of her own.
Aftermath: Hathe Book Three is the final book in the Hathe science fiction trilogy. If you like superbly plotted novels, cut-throat politics and engaging heroes and heroines, then you’ll love this SFR Galaxy award-winning book by Mary Brock Jones.
Toil and Strife
(Hathe Book 1 and 2)
When two worlds clash in a fight for survival, what chance have a pair of duty-plagued lovers caught in the middle?
Previously published in two parts as RESISTANCE and PAY THE PIPER. This revised version includes a Character List and Guide to Pronunciation.
Five long years ago, the Terrans invaded Hathe and life on a once peaceful and wealthy world changed forever. Major Hamon Radcliff is one of those Terrans. He does what he can to mitigate the brutality against the Hathians yet knows the Terran occupation must succeed. Earth cannot survive without the urgonium found only on Hathe.
But all that changes when Hamon discovers a woman of the long-lost Hathian ruling class. He suspects Marthe asn Castre of being an undercover agent. If he only knew she’s much more. She’s a key player in a secret resistance force intent on freeing Hathe from Terran occupation.
Now Hamon must choose. Protect the woman he loves and let millions of his people die.
Or break her, by any means possible, to find out what she knows and save Earth from a long and torturous end.
*Sensitivity warning: includes a scene with an element of sexual assault.
