Legacy Hunter is a multi-book
scifi-adventure series with romantic elements in the vein of Indiana Jones
meets Farscape. It is suitable for teens and adult readers. It is co-authored
by Chris Heinicke and Kate Reedwood
Book 1,
Queen
Killer, available in
ebook and print July 29
th 2017 on all platforms.
Book 2,
Star
Keeper, scheduled for
release November 29
th 2017
Book 3, Dark Horizon, scheduled for release March
29th 2018
Book 1, Queen Killer
Blurb:
Stardrives.
Powerful, beautiful, bio-mimetic energy
in its purest form. A benevolent gift meant to launch humanity into a new age
of space travel. They were the hope for the future. The key to the next
stage in human discovery.
But every gift has
its price.
Nearly a thousand
years after Earth took its place in the network of galactic commerce, the
planet is depleted of resources and on the edge of collapse. Can stardrive technology bring
the Earth back to life? Adventurer Axel Ryan is betting his life that it can.
But there aren't any stardrives left to be found
on Earth, and ships capable of interstellar travel are hard to come by. His
only choice is to enlist the aid of mercenary pirates to steal one. With the
stakes high, and the future of Earth on the line, does it matter he'll have to
betray the love of his life?
Keep your friends
close and your enemies closer has always been Element Cruz's motto. And it
couldn’t be more true with Axel Ryan. Drugged, abandoned, and her ship stolen,
she's more than ready to let the price on his head kill him. Except
Axel holds the key to saving humanity. And if there's one thing Ellie
can't refuse, it's the chance to win.
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Excerpt:
What the hell had he done? No ship was
worth this.
“Warning, hull breach imminent.”
“Escape pod. Now!” he shouted. Built
for two, the women would be protected by the automatic defense system on board,
while the pod sped them to the safety of the nearby Terran colony on
Europa.
“Oh God,” Rose said, panic clear in
her voice as she checked Ellie over. “I think it’s her leg.”
“I’ll bring her. Just go!” Axel picked
up Ellie, ignoring the way she winced and screamed as her left foot banged his
thigh, and hurried in the direction of the escape pod.
Smoke was seeping in around the
edges of the main door, making the red light of the emergency system a hazy
mist. The sound of stressed metal reverberated throughout the room. As did
the resonant hum of blasters being fired.
“This is all your fault, you
bastard!” Rose screamed at him, speaking aloud what Axel already knew to
be true. It was his fault. All of it. The betrayal. The
hurt. All of it.
The pod door slid open with the touch of
Rose’s hand. Her expression sparked with hatred as she pressed herself into the
upright harness of the cylindrical tube and reached for her daughter. Axel
helped Ellie into the other tether as he counted the seconds in his mind, willing
the main door to hold just a heartbeat longer. One, two, three—
Boom!
The stressed metal exploded, breaching the
room.
“Axel!” Ellie screamed. She reached
for him, her green eyes wide.
“Only room for two,” he said and hit
the release button.
The capsule door slammed shut, separating
the two women from his view. Then it was gone, disappeared down the launch
tube.
Safe.
Axel gasped for breath in the thinning
atmosphere of the room and raised his hands into the air.
If there was one thing in life he found
impossible to mistake, it was the cold hard steel of a blaster, pressed to the
back of his head.
Book 2, Star Keeper
Blurb:
Axel Ryan is running
for his life.
Pursued by bounty
hunters with a price on his head, he should disappear into the stars to hide
and continue his search for Stardrives. But his soulmate, Element Cruz, has
resurfaced and after spending the last six months searching for her with no
luck, finding her again is worth gambling his life. She’s putting her own in
danger by infiltrating an illegal slave auction where the Star Keeper of
Endaria is being sold; a woman with empathic abilities, worth more credits then
Axel can legally gather.
It should be an easy
mission. Crash the auction, save his girl, and fly off into the galaxy to live
happily ever after together. But the universe has another destiny in store for
Axel, one he’ll need to embrace to save them all, or die trying.
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“Ellie!” Axel screamed as he raced through the door on the left of
the corridor he was in. Through a meter-wide window, he saw the tired face of
Element Cruz. Relief collided with panic and turned to rage. She was still
alive, but for how long? And why the frell did she have a fist-sized welt on
her cheek? The mark was dark red and stark against her skin, swollen and
painful.
He ran up and touched the window, her face on the other side. “Who
the frell hit you?” he yelled, not sure if Ellie could hear. When she stared at
him blankly he shook his head and added, “I will get you out of there!” He
could dole out justice to whoever had harmed her once he knew she was safe.
She gestured at her comm where it hung useless and broken from the
collar on her suit and put her hand up against the window too. She mouthed the
words, “It's a trap,” clearly enough for Axel to understand the lip movements.
“Get out of here!”
He glanced around the room he was in. Some kind of observation
chamber, he guessed. But for what purpose, he had no idea. Shiloh had led a
peculiar existence. The room itself was divided, a couch and table on this side
with a glass partition separating him from the other where Ellie and Iris and
Shiznit were held captive.
Iris had escaped her own bindings and was working on undoing
Shiznit’s restraints with her fingers. Ellie banged her fists against the
glass. “Leave!” she screamed.
Axel ignored her and tried the cell’s door, first with a tug on the
handle, then with his blaster, but the laser fire bounced off the glass without
doing any discernable damage.
Axel turned back to Ellie, so close to him but separated by safety
glass that would take more fire power than he could muster right now to break.
She may as well be on the other side of the galaxy.
But he refused to give up and let her and the others die. Darius
wasn’t going to win.
The charges. Where were they? A blinking light caught his eye by the
edge of the cell window. Rectangular and about the size of his palm, the explosive
charge had been attached to the wall. One of several, in fact, he realized.
He moved to the charges and studied them. He was no expert, but the
arrangement seemed simple enough. Square casing. Couple wires. Blinking red
light, the flashes increasing in speed. A countdown in progress? Shit.
The others banged on the window. Axel glanced at them but ignored
their frantic expressions and pleas for him to leave. He needed to focus on
diffusing the situation.
“Who am I kidding, I've never done this shit,” he said out loud. He
did know the red digital display was just that, a display, but that there was
some type of timer inside that was counting down to zero. The nearest charge
had been placed at his height, and he knew that the first thing he should do was
try to pull one of the wires out to disrupt the circuit. But which one? Black
or red? And if he picked wrong, would it instantly detonate and set off the
others?
Sweat poured from his brow like a slow dripping tap, and he quickly
wiped it with the back of his hand.
He could stand here and wait, or he could take a chance and act. The
others were shrieking frantically, banging on the glass. The right wire would
save them. They were dead for certain if he stood here letting time run out.
Fifty-fifty chance. Life or death? Red or black? Which future did fortune
favor?
He chose black.
Pulling with all his strength, he broke the wire free of the charge
with a snap. The blinking stopped and became a solid red light, glaring at him
with its brightness. A high-pitched whine filled the room.
“Oh shit.” I’m so sorry, he thought. “Ellie! Get
back!”
Author Bios
Although working as a baker for
many years, writing has been a passion for Chris for some time, starting in
high school and reigniting again in 2006, when he first got the inspiration to
begin writing 'The Man In Black.'
After completing that project eight years later, he took part in NaNoWriMo in
November 2014, culminating into a project named 5PM. Deciding to
self-publish, 5PM came out in February 2015, and then The Man In Black in
August.
2016 saw the release of 7PM, and in that same year, his writing path met with
that of Canadian author Kate Reedwood. A mutual respect of each other's work
ignited an interest in working together, creating the Legacy Hunter series, the
first of which to come out in July 2017.
Apart from writing, Chris enjoys travelling, reading, watching movies and all
things geeky. He resides in Coffs Harbour with his wife and three children.
Chris will be at Nexus Con on
July 29 celebrating the release of the first book in his Legacy Hunter series.
Kate Reedwood, also know as Felicity Kates, is a
mild-mannered manager by day. At night, she trades in her high heels for bunny
slippers and lets her imagination run wild.
A trained artist and writer, Kate enjoys writing
stories that combine humor with strong characters who know what they want and
aren't afraid to go get it. Every story is an emotional journey where the
characters must struggle to find their happily ever after. But they do always
reach it in the end, no matter the time or place in the universe.
She lives off of coffee and dreams and enjoys
going for walks along the shores of Lake Ontario, taking pictures of whatever
catches her eye. A romantic at heart, she loves to snuggle under a blanket with
a good book to warm up the cold Canadian winters.
When not dreaming up new worlds and books to
write with Australian author Chris Heinicke, she can most often be found
enjoying the quiet company of her husband and son.
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