Abbaddon Rising.
Summary: Joss is one of a thousand women abducted by the Chiagan-Se as brides for a dying race. The males thought they'd come willingly, the women believed they'd been kidnapped and when the two sides meet, sparks fly.
Abaddon Rising is Book 3 in the Star Brides (Deg'Nara) Series. Joss is captured, enslaved and forced to fight in the alien gladiator ring...and then came Kanaan!
Snippet:
Yells and curses rent the air! Whips cracked overhead as the
slave handlers rounded up their charges and herded them towards the conscripts’
quarters.
Joss ducked
in time to avoid a direct hit from a serpentine strap before standing up. One of these days she silently vowed. I really hate those frickin’ whips! Physically
drained and mentally brain-dead, she found a place in the straggling line and
followed the exhausted slaves towards the dormitory. This rotation had been a
singularly grueling one and she ached in every bone and muscle. Two more rotations and we’ll leave this
shithole! And then what? If I win,
I’m back here and if I lose…
The whole
depressing scenario left her downhearted and hopeless. Only thing I can hope
for is that Master Luidoc loses and I’m bought by a Master who’ll set me free! Fat
chance that! The Destroyer will never be defeated in the ring and if I survive,
I’m right back here! Big f’ing deal!
Without
conscious thought, she kicked out, landing a solid blow on the lower leg of the
slave ahead. The shaggy red head whipped around.
“Watch ass, female,” the creature snarled
from thin blue lips.
She stepped back, startled. The
left portion of his face was a mass of burn scars, twisting the blue lips into
a perpetual one-sided smile.
The yellow-green eyes snapped with
anger. “Or I kills you next time!”
“Oh yeah,”
she snapped back. “You and who else?”
Euo, she recalled. One of those conscripts
slated for the mass battle. From her experience in the sparring bouts, his
skills were modest at best and he’d be one of the first to fall. A brief surge
of sympathy gave her a moment’s pause. Have
I become so callous to the suffering of others? Edie would be so ashamed of me!
“I’m…I’m
sorry,” she apologized. “Just tired!”
The shaggy
red head dipped in an acknowledging nod. “Bad place here.” He spit into the
dust. “Deg’Nara bad. All bad,” he hissed under his breath.
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