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    Rogue
    Rogue
    Rogue
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    Rogue

    By Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

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    Mysterious ships swarm a rogue planet which has suddenly appeared at the edge of allied space. The last thing battle-weary warrior Andromeda Spar wants is another skirmish. But since her mother is the fleet Admiral, how can she refuse? As Andromeda prepares for her final battle, she discovers something extraordinary. The drones she’s come to annihilate are not what they seem.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephanie Bedwell-Grime
    Release dateJul 20, 2014
    ISBN9780991759088
    Rogue
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    Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

    Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is the author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over fifty short stories. She has been nominated for the Aurora Award five times and has also been an EPIC eBook Award finalist.

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      Rogue - Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

      ROGUE

      By

      Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

      Copyright 2014 by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

      Cover Art by Derek Grime

      Published by Feral Martian Publishing at Smashwords

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      ROGUE

      Wind drilled sand against my windows. I paused, a mug of stim halfway to my lips, looked through the pressure-sealed glass and sighed.

      This is my life now, I thought darkly. I get up. I shower. I switch the cats.

      The cats’ roar greeted me as soon as I stepped into the enclosure. Desert Lahti aren't what you'd call sociable. They don't even care for the company of their own species. Still, I have limited space here on my small patch, so I've been trying to spread their scent around in the vain hope that they might learn to tolerate each other. They don't know it yet, but those two are going to mate. I was feeling especially doubtful about that whole enterprise as the scaled desert cats sniffed each other disdainfully, snorting at each other's scents, and hissing at each other through the mesh fence. I eyed them with some annoyance. Did no one in my life ever get along? They loathed each other almost as much as my mother had hated my late BetaaDon boyfriend, Yaub. Which, I suppose, was understandable. Mom was the Admiral, and Yaub was an alien. Even coming from an allied planet didn't make him suitable boyfriend or Heavens forbid, marriage material.

      So I was a little surprised to see them both peering over my compound fence watching the snarling Lahti nervously. I blinked in shock. Mom and I hadn't been on speaking terms for some time. Not since I'd retired from the air force. And Yaub was, well...dead. I blinked again, focused. Memories flooded in, I choked them back.

      On second glance, the guy with my mom wasn't Yaub. Still, he looked enough like him to be his twin in a bald, blue-skinned kind of way. Yaub had been taller, broader in the shoulders. I swallowed past the lump in my throat. Yaub had been my lover and my best friend.

      I came to my senses suddenly, realizing I’d left them to stand in the glare of the three noon-day suns. Just because Mom and I had disagreed about Yaub − oh hells, we'd disagreed about everything−was no reason to be rude.

      Come around to the gate, I called.

      They hesitated, cast another glance at the growling Lahti. Even the BetaaDon seemed to have a healthy fear of them. Hells, I had a healthy fear of them.

      The cage is locked. When they still didn't move, I added, And fortified.

      They moved as one then, coming around to the gate. I keyed in the sequence to drop the force field, let them through, then reset it.

      I noted they stayed as far away from the Lahti cages as possible. I glanced at the BetaaDon. He stared back at me with yellow eyes, so like Yaub's it made my breath catch.

      "Let's go into

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