End of the Line: an Arcana short story

End of the Line: an Arcana short story

Please note, this is a SHORT STORY, not a novel.
It is set in the same world as the Jit'Suku Chronicles - Arcana stories.

Enemy Captain Fedroval â€“ Val for short â€“ shoots down a one-man fighter out near the Galactic Rim, but the pilot, much to his surprise and horror, is a human woman named Lisbet Duncan. The alien warriors have a strict code. In their culture, making war on females is a shameful stain on oneâ€™s honor. The captain doesnâ€™t quite know what to do with Lisbet, but he canâ€™t let her die alone in space. He orders his men to tow her life pod into their battle ship.

Val is the last of his line â€“ heir to a doomed legacy â€“ because no respectable jit'suku woman will have him after the destruction of his family. He has put all his considerable resources into building his state-of-the-art battleship and joining the fight to take the human galaxy, hoping to restore his honor in some small way. This is Valâ€™s first foray into human space and his first encounter with a human female. He finds her strangely alluring and altogether irresistible.

Lisbet is attracted to Val as well. When he puts the moves on her, she canâ€™t resist his masculine charm, but she doesnâ€™t like being a prisoner â€“ even if she is being kept in a gilded cage, treated more like a guest. She doesnâ€™t know a lot about jitâ€™suku culture and itâ€™s pretty clear they donâ€™t understand much about humans. Itâ€™s going to be fun educating her captor about just how headstrong, fierceâ€¦ and lovingâ€¦ a human woman can be.

* The Jit'Suku Chronicles is a generational saga encompassing several centuries of warfare between the Milky Way Galaxy and its mostly human inhabitants and the Jit'Suku Empire. There are four novellas set in the same time period as this short story, in the Arcana series. They are: King of Swords, King of Cups, King of Clubs, and King of Stars.

The Chronicles continue, a century or so later, in the Sons of Amber novellas. The first of these, Angel in the Badlands is available now.

Look for more Jit'Suku Chronicles coming in 2015 and 2016.

Country	USA
Author	Bianca D'Arc
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781301823093
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Liefde Press
Manufacturer	Liefde Press
NumberOfPages	50
PublicationDate	2012-12-31
Publisher	Liefde Press
ReleaseDate	2012-12-31
Studio	Liefde Press

End of the Line: an Arcana short story

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