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    Obsolete
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    Obsolete

    By Viola Grace

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    Olena enjoys taking things apart and repurposing them. She enters the Volunteer Program, and after some coaxing, she agrees to leave to find her fortune in the stars. The fortune she gets is a grimy salvage station where family ties keep her from rising to the top, and her life is a series of endless grey days until she takes apart a chunk of debris that turns out to be a life pod.

    Brin Tai Wekk has been waiting for a compatible female to share the burden of the mind of a planet. When the woman who slams the lid of his capsule on his hand wakes him, he knows he has found someone capable of sharing more than her instinct for survival.

    A discarded career, a stolen mate and a talent for turning the obsolete into something useful track Olena to a new world with a new start.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateJul 15, 2015
    ISBN9781487403423
    Obsolete
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    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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      Book preview

      Obsolete - Viola Grace

      A talent for salvage leads her to the end of the universe where a sleeping alien has been waiting to make her his own.

      Olena enjoys taking things apart and repurposing them. She enters the Volunteer Program, and after some coaxing, she agrees to leave to find her fortune in the stars. The fortune she gets is a grimy salvage station where family ties keep her from rising to the top, and her life is a series of endless grey days until she takes apart a chunk of debris that turns out to be a life pod.

      Brin Tai Wekk has been waiting for a compatible female to share the burden of the mind of a planet. When the woman who slams the lid of his capsule on his hand wakes him, he knows he has found someone capable of sharing more than her instinct for survival.

      A discarded career, a stolen mate and a talent for turning the obsolete into something useful track Olena to a new world with a new start.

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      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Obsolete

      Copyright © 2015 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0342-3

      Cover art by Martine Jardin

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Devine Destinies, an imprint of eXtasy Books Inc

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      Obsolete

      Terran Times Second Wave

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Olena Jackobi put the last few touches on the whirligig that she was completing for a client.

      I know they are inviting me. I don’t want to go. Olena released the strut and watched the creation spring to life at the touch of the wind.

      She cocked her head and saw the delicately balanced pieces swing and swirl in all directions in a dance that took the blades perilously close to one another without touching.

      Her boss sighed. Then, why did you apply?

      Olena shrugged and set the gears to slow the rotation. It had to be locked down for delivery. The wind machine had been crafted from found objects that had been sliced into the perfect size and shape.

      Margaret persisted. Why did you apply?

      Olena scowled and looked at her the moment she finished prepping the device for delivery. I applied because I wanted to play with their toys, to see if alien technology was different from ours. They just gave me normal, boring human technology to play with.

      Margaret sighed. Then, you must tell them that you are not returning.

      Olena looked at her as she wiped her hands on her work apron. I will.

      You should do it soon. No sense in dragging these things out.

      I said I would do it. Quit bugging me.

      Margaret smiled knowingly and walked away.

      Two weeks later, Olena stared out the viewing window on the lunar base and muttered, How could she do that?

      Her instructor cleared his throat. Who are you speaking of?

      My previous employer. Margaret. She knew I was going to end up here, she just had to goad me into it.

      I am sure that it was a master manipulation. Now, tell me what the parts can be used for.

      She turned and looked at the workbench. The shattered remains of nine weapons and what appeared to be a toaster were in front of her.

      With deliberate motions, she stripped the usable parts from the irreparable. Her instructor nodded, but she kept going, splicing the irreparable into useful connections over and over until the pile of recovered pieces was nearly as large as the factory salvage.

      Heilos blinked in surprise. You have done more than I expected. I would not have thought to combine those wires into a usable connection.

      They are the same metal and will conduct power neatly. The effect of cold and hot will be easily executed through those coils as well; they just need to be nested instead of singular.

      Heilos looked at the coils. Ingenious. Two completely different species developed that tech, and you made it work together. Continue to assemble it. I want to see what you create out of these obsolete parts.

      Seriously?

      "Seriously. Go

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