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    Cracked Control: Tales of the Citadel, #60
    Cracked Control: Tales of the Citadel, #60
    Cracked Control: Tales of the Citadel, #60
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    Cracked Control: Tales of the Citadel, #60

    By Viola Grace

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    Addy was a lost Terran. Her ship was captured on the way to the Alliance training center, and she and the other occupants were held for experimentation.

    Months of agony with her fellow humans dying under the test-to-destruction methods of the researchers ended the day that Addy was taken to the edge of her limits. A rescue operation came to save her and the other survivors, and she was sedated for the trip back to the Alliance.

    Addy lay in stasis while the world she had set on its path to destruction shattered and the rescue shuttle fought for its own survival.

    Thirty years later, Addy is woken to find that the world has changed, she is alone at a base, and she has the power in her cells to break the world under her feet. No pressure. Ha.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateJan 5, 2018
    ISBN9781487416010
    Cracked Control: Tales of the Citadel, #60
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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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    Cracked Control - Viola Grace

    Abduction, genetic modification, and a nap that crossed decades is just the start for one of the first Volunteers to enter the Citadel, thirty years late.

    Addy was a lost Terran. Her ship was captured on the way to the Alliance training centre, and she and the other occupants were held for experimentation.

    Months of agony with her fellow humans dying under the test-to-destruction methods of the researchers ended the day that Addy was taken to the edge of her limits. A rescue operation came to save her and the other survivors, and she was sedated for the trip back to the Alliance.

    Addy lay in stasis while the world she had set on its path to destruction shattered and the rescue shuttle fought for its own survival.

    Thirty years later, Addy is woken to find that the world has changed, she is alone at a base, and she has the power in her cells to break the world under her feet. No pressure. Ha.

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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.

    Cracked Control

    Copyright © 2017 Viola Grace

    ISBN: 978-1-4874-1601-0

    Cover art by Martine Jardin

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    Cracked Control

    Tales of the Citadel Book 60

    By

    Viola Grace

    Chapter One

    Addy huddled in the back of her cage, and she hoped that she wasn’t picked for experimentation that day. She really wasn’t up to it.

    Hey! Addy. I am guessing it is nearly Christmas at home. The prisoner from next door called out.

    Kelly had been next to her on the shuttle that was approaching the jump ship, right before it was swallowed by a hole in space. Out of fifty human Volunteers on that vessel, there were only nine left alive.

    Kelly had lost her sight after the third week, so her experience of the world was via other senses. If she said it was nearly Christmas, it was.

    Addy sighed. Happy holidays, Kelly.

    Merry Christmas, Addy.

    Addy hated to ask, but she did anyway, Kelly?

    Yes?

    How long have we been here?

    Six months, three days and five hours.

    Do you think anyone is looking for us?

    Kelly’s voice had a smile in it. Yes. They are looking. They are also very close.

    Hope flickered in Addy’s chest. Do you think they have coffee?

    Kelly laughed, and Addy sat with her back against the wall that she shared with Kelly. It was the closest thing to a hug that they could manage.

    Their laughter and smiles faded as they heard the footsteps in the hall. They were here for a subject, and Addy and Kelly were the only two in this section.

    Addy held her breath as her door was swung open. The stun bolt knocked her to the floor, and she was dragged out of the cell and down the hall with her nerves screaming and her muscles jerking.

    The two handlers hauled her about a kilometre, her toes dragging until they bled. She was just getting her limbs under her control again when they strapped her down.

    Racks of coloured fluids, equipment that had application pads to electrocute, probes and scanners were all lined up.

    She looked at the alien medics and researchers around her. Gentlemen, shall we tango?

    The first injection hit, and the next six hours were her trying not to scream and focusing on time with family and her memories of home. The holidays were a good focus, and it was only when the decorated tree in her mind started to shimmy and buck that she came back to her body.

    She opened her eyes and watched the displays tipping over, the vials and chemicals smashing. One of the men was screaming for someone to shut it down, but the riot of energy wouldn’t stop.

    If Addy wasn’t strapped down, she would have fallen over. As it was, the exam table she was on was jittering across the floor.

    A thunderous crack started outside, and the lab split down the centre. Three of her persecutors fell into the rift and everyone else ran.

    Whatever world they were on was coming apart around them, and Addy was strapped to a fucking table!

    Another wedge was carved out of the flooring, and she heard metal uncoupling in the walls as they heaved upward. Gas flew out of the walls,

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