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    Gaea's Chosen: Event Horizon
    Gaea's Chosen: Event Horizon
    Gaea's Chosen: Event Horizon
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    Gaea's Chosen: Event Horizon

    By Cara Michaels

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    Dr. Marcus Gilpin left Earth with the woman he loved, but the very science he put his faith in promised her to another man...

    Six months after waking in unknown parts of the galaxy, Marcus Gilpin is still recovering from a mauling that nearly killed him. His love gone, his ship lost—a crew of twenty now numbers only five, and he should have been among the dead.

    He’s not entirely certain death wouldn’t be a relief—until he learns Gaea’s Ark isn’t alone, and a distress call reveals an unbelievable truth: The love he’d thought lost forever is still very much alive, and she’ll need his help to stay that way.

    Gaea’s Chosen: Selected to settle a new world twenty light years from home...only things didn’t quite go as planned.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCara Michaels
    Release dateMar 6, 2012
    ISBN9781466025134
    Gaea's Chosen: Event Horizon
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    Cara Michaels

    Cara Michaels is a dreamer of legendary proportions (just ask her about the alien pirate spaceship invasion). Her imagination is her playground and nothing is quite so much fun for her as building new characters and new worlds with at least an edge of the fantastic. She's writing whenever the opportunity presents itself and can typically be found tinkering with half a dozen projects. Occasionally all at once.She calls Florida 'home' when she's not busy swearing about giant bugs and humidity. She has one super-cool fiancé who doesn't (usually) mind the hours spent writing, editing, writing some more, and editing a lot more, one son with aspirations of becoming either a great wizard or an artist, and three cats who enjoy sleeping on her works in progress.

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      Gaea's Chosen - Cara Michaels

      Gaea’s Chosen:

      Event Horizon

      Cara Michaels

      As my writing twin, Siobhan Muir, said as I combed through edits and notes: Great writing is rewriting.

      Thank you all for helping make Gaea’s Chosen: Event Horizon great.

      Siobhan Muir

      George Varhalmi

      Phyllis Carmichael

      Steve & Jodie Cox

      K. Victoria Smith

      Jonathan Shedaker

      Gaea’s Chosen: Event Horizon

      By Cara Michaels

      Copyright 2012 H.L. Carmichael

      Smashwords Edition

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      Cover Design: H.L. Carmichael

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      About Cara Michaels

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      Tempe, Arizona - 2380

      Hey, Professor. Can I bend your ear for a tick?

      Sure thing, I replied, smiling at the familiar greeting. For a split second I forgot about anything but the simmering heat her sweet voice inspired. I glanced up and admired the sight of her with a, You look good in my office, Dr. T.

      Marcus.

      Oh yeah, she looked good. Good and ready to hand me an insensitive jerk award for some unknown offense. I buried my concentration in the research in my hands, hoping to avoid the coming fallout. The findings here are outstanding.

      I’m not sure how to tell you this, she began.

      Have you read this report yet? The trace particulates—

      Marc, please. Don’t make me fight your work for attention.

      Her snippy tone grated. Lovely. She was pissed at me for something. I glanced at the date on my computer. Not her birthday or our anniversary. And the wedding was still a year off, so—

      With a sigh, I pushed aside analysis of comet P/2042 B1 and glanced up.

      Strong words coming from a woman every bit as inclined to lose herself in her work as me.

      Damn it. She practically growled at me.

      Okay, Tegan, okay. I held up my hands.

      Something’s happened.

      She stood in the doorway of my office, her generous lips tight and flat, toying with the ID badge clipped to her jacket, cheeks and eyes both red. Taken aback by her obvious upset, I leaned back in my chair.

      What is it?

      Have you checked your mail?

      I finally noticed the ornately styled cream envelope in her hand. I made out the artfully scrawled Dr. Tegan Hernandez on the front. The back sported a broken red wax seal.

      You mean physical mail? No, not in a few days, I said uneasily. I’ve been buried in trace analysis since getting back Earthside. Besides, I’m not expecting anything. My gaze darted to the envelope as I shut my babbling mouth. Am I?

      You should have one of these, she said, bouncing the envelope against her other hand.

      I stood, turning a three-sixty, wondering where my assistant might keep physical mail. Ninety-five percent of my mail came electronically. The other five percent usually got filed in the garbage can.

      I’ll save you the suspense. She pinched the bridge of her nose, closing her eyes briefly. It’s about the Chosen, Marcus.

      Chosen? For—oh. The only possible meaning of her words should have meant good things, but my hands fumbled, subjecting a stack of textbooks and notes to the inexorable pull of gravity. Right. The Gaea project. Noise from EASA?

      You could call it that. The letter crumpled noisily as Tegan clenched her fist. She didn’t look excited or happy with the news she carried.

      Seriously? What do they want now? I thought the crew roster was final. The stupid envelope had to be here somewhere.

      It is, she said. There’s just been a new program initiated.

      Baby, I thought we wanted this. Have you changed your mind?

      We’d met when we signed up for the Gaea project nearly three years ago. The idea of traveling twenty light years still made me a little nervous if I thought about it too hard. Thousands of years in space. And we’d volunteered.

      But we’d be together, and life on Earth didn’t hold many new frontiers for scientists whose specialties began with xeno or astro.

      Tegan, what is it? I stepped around my desk and crossed the room, pulling her into my arms. She stiffened, setting my nerves on edge, but I kept her close. She leaned into me finally, her head resting against my chest. This couldn’t be good, I knew it. Talk to me.

      We’ve been partnered, she said in the barest whisper.

      Okay—?

      With other people.

      So we have to work with other people? A tension headache brewed behind my eyes. She needed to just spit out the bad news before I lost my mind and gagged her first. I’m a biologist and you’re a rock hound. I don’t get the problem here.

      She shook her head, the sandy gold of her long hair spilling across my arms, tickling my skin. We have to mate with other people.

      We—what? I set her back a step, my hands locked on her shoulders. She didn’t want to look at me. Tegan, what the hell are you talking about?

      "Some of the tests we took

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