Pilot in Command
By Viola Grace
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Helen needed more from life as a pilot than the Alliance could offer. When a handsome Azon offers her a new position, she can’t say no, to anything.
Helen has enjoyed her tenure as an Alliance pilot, but working with unpredictable crews is wearing on her nerves. When an incident of defense of the innocent via mutiny ends her career, controlling warships is over. Joining the Sector Guard felt right, but if she had known what was ahead of her, she may have held back when the handsome Azon doctor offered her a job.
Hyder has always known the matches that he sees are the perfect mate for the person he is speaking to. He may not know a name, or a location, but he knows what everyone’s perfect match looks like. Seeing himself as the Terran’s perfect match is a surprise, but when he looks her over, he is sure he is up to the challenge. He just has to put Pilot in command.
Viola Grace
Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
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Pilot in Command - Viola Grace
Helen needed more from life as a pilot than the Alliance could offer. When a handsome Azon offers her a new position, she can’t say no, to anything.
Helen has enjoyed her tenure as an Alliance pilot, but working with unpredictable crews is wearing on her nerves. When an incident of defense of the innocent via mutiny ends her career, controlling warships is over. Joining the Sector Guard felt right, but if she had known what was ahead of her, she may have held back when the handsome Azon doctor offered her a job.
Hyder has always known the matches that he sees are the perfect mate for the person he is speaking to. He may not know a name, or a location, but he knows what everyone’s perfect match looks like. Seeing himself as the Terran’s perfect match is a surprise, but when he looks her over, he is sure he is up to the challenge. He just has to put Pilot in command.
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Pilot in Command
Copyright © 2011 Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-77111-051-8
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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Pilot in Command
Sector Guard Book 25
By
Viola Grace
Prologue
Before there was a Sector Guard, there were talks for years about a joint task force to cover all of the minutia of peacekeeping in outer reaches of the Alliance and Nyal sectors. Multiple species all trying to gain a leg up on the staffing so that their races would be represented in the majority.
When the Avari joined the discussion via long-range communication, they proposed a compromise. The first official Guardsmen would be a pair—one from an old race of the Alliance and one from a new one. The candidates would be selected on merits that would have made them Champions of their own species if they had not already been involved in the Alliance. Psychic talents of unusual strength or application were preferred.
Several species who had worked hard to expunge the psychic genes were outraged, but they calmed when they were informed that they would be allowed to contribute support staff to the project.
As everything settled, the first candidates were selected and approached by the Alliance. Out of one hundred fourteen candidates, only thirty accepted and the males only agreed when added incentive was arranged.
One man had the talent to make those arrangements viable and he needed to meet with each of the men to confirm their needs.
Hyder Mihal was an Azon doctor with a talent for organization and matchmaking. He just needed a pilot and a note from the Haldis Imperium explained exactly who he needed.
Chapter One
Helen Taline swung her ship around so that the gunners had full access to the raider ships. They fired back and she felt every impact on her hull like a mild burn.
Pilot! What the hell are you doing?
The com screamed in her mind, a sound run through the wires that led to her implants.
I am flying the ship, Captain. Nice of you to ask.
She winced as another strike hit her broadside.
I told you to clear the area!
"There are civilians in the area. We are buying them time, Captain." Her voice was a mock-up of her physical voice translated from electrical impulses into a speaker.
Captain Westerhale was a coward. She had filed numerous complaints against him, but it was a pilot versus the captain. It was not as if she could physically witness anything from inside her tank.
With a quick flick of her mind, she disconnected all manual controls. The crew was in her body, they were going to have to play by her rules.
Her gunners were devastating the raiders and they fell back, but it wasn’t good enough. Keeping the bulk of the Burnt Star between the raiders and their initial targets, she pursued them until an array of ships was lying in her wake.
The captain was screaming into her sensors and she released the control back to the control-room staffers who were trying to cut her override.
She would face disciplinary action for the hijacking of her own ship and she was ready for it. Those family transports had nowhere to hide and for a moment, she had been the only thing between them and disaster. She would do it again.
She was weak, but the Azon physician who worked on her had gentle hands. She wanted to