Tales of Tolari Space
By the mid-26th century, Earth and its colony worlds, now governed from Tau Ceti, had recovered from three centuries of chaos and were finally establishing a place among the races of the Trade Alliance. All that stood in the way of their continued expansion was a dangerous region of K-space called The Drift – and the reclusive race living within it: the Tolari.
Marianne Woolsey never wanted to go to Tolar, and she certainly never planned on having to decide between her loyalty to Earth and her love for an alien who had befriended her.
“A beautifully realized story that proves that politically motivated space opera and tender love stories do not have to be mutually exclusive.” – Kirkus Reviews
“For anyone who enjoys tightly-written, wonderfully imaginative science fiction wrapped with romance, this one is a must!” – InD’Tale Magazine
Winner of the 2013 PRISM Award for Futuristic Romance (Romance Writers of America)
For Marianne Woolsey, linguist and tutor, being empathically bonded to the leader of the Tolari turns out to be a bed of roses – complete with thorns. Especially thorns. With diplomatic relations severed and humans expelled from Tolari space, the Earth Fleet ship Alexander is gone … for now … but Earth Central Command hasn’t given up trying to get Marianne back. As she struggles with nightmares, life-changing surprises, and a bond-partner who can’t be tamed, she just wants to figure out where she fits in a society that isn’t quite human.
Laura Howard, the Admiral’s widow, only desires to be left in peace to gather the fragments of a shattered heart, but Central Command has plans for her, too.
“…an absolute delight… everything a romance reader wants in a science fiction story!” – InD’Tale Magazine
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Laura Howard, Earth Fleet widow and exile from human space, found more than safety on Tolar: she captured the love of a Tolari ruler and became a powerful Tolari empath. But a serious injury erases Laura’s time in Parania — and, perhaps, loses her the love of her Paran, who yearns for the woman she once was.
Armed only with the memories of her youth, and empathically bonded to a man she can no longer understand, she struggles to recover and find her place, and herself, before a hidden enemy forces the Paran to do what he had always considered unthinkable: risk his life, and Laura’s, to fight for the leadership of the ruling caste.
The Fall is the story of a world re-opened to the stars after millennia of isolation, and the hazards and opportunities that abound when one’s feelings are known to everyone around you.
Exiles of the Drift
The Tolari had finally broken centuries of silence, as the races of the Trade Alliance realized the empaths of Beta Hydri IV were not the primitives they seemed. But the first Tolari to leave their world was a exiled ruler, determined to cause trouble – for Tolari and humans alike.
Farryn of Monralar had tried to shake his people from their isolation – tried and failed, losing his honor in the process. Now an outcaste, he puts his past behind him by building his own criminal empire among the colonies of Earth.
Only Farryn’s estranged lover Sharana – scholar, political analyst, and empathic sensitive – dared to follow him into human space, desperate to find out what has become of him, hopeful of convincing him that she never betrayed him. Unfortunately, Earth Central Security is watching, and when she falls into their hands, Farryn decides to rescue her – so that he can kill her himself.
“…remarkable prose… richly drawn characters in a beautifully detailed world… a solid entry for readers craving new, original space operas. .” – Kirkus Reviews
Stationmaster and exiled aristocrat Albert St. John Rembrandt—Bertie to his friends—is in love with a Tolari ruler he believes he can’t have. When he nearly dies finding out the hard way that some Tolari are as poisonous as their planet, it’s only the beginning of his troubles.
A ship has gone missing and his station is in crisis, and Bertie must somehow recover his health and manage the disaster while trying to decide whether to accept genetic modification in order to be with the man he loves.
And no Rembrandt has ever taken a gen mod.
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Perhaps casual nudity hadn’t been Kim’ s best idea.
Dr. Kimberly Storm-Gale was no one particularly special, just a Tau Ceti professor on a research sabbatical. But then his research subjects kidnapped him and took him to Tolar, which was strictly off limits — and that goes double for the alien empath who is invading his dreams.
“Sink into these stories and be entertained.” — Sharon Lee, author of the Liaden Universe.
Release Date: November 12, 2024!