Don’t miss this exciting and enthralling collection by author Edita A. Petrick. Filled with multiple plot twists, well written characters, and thrills that will keep you glued to the pages, this collection is certainly a much needed addition to any library. Enjoy!
Thy Killer’s Keeper
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
… what remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth
A horrific murder has taken place in upstate California. Emily Waters, a local teacher, has been bound in duct tape-leaving only her eyes exposed-and crushed to death under the wheels of a semi-trailer heading down the Eureka freeway. The local police can’t even guess at a suspect in a murder as brutal and bizarre as this.
The San Francisco field office of the FBI sends two of their agents to investigate the Eureka murder. Special Agent John Salton is just as good at hiding dark secrets as he is at making himself appear as an ordinary, everyday person. He and his partner, Special Agent Ruby Tam set to explore the dark secrets of a town driven by sex and alcohol even as Ruby grows increasingly uncomfortable with her partner pushing his outlandish agenda that may see both of them dismissed… or killed.
However, when Salton’s eight-year-old autistic son is transferred to an experimental facility situated not too far from the scene of the latest bizarre murder, Ruby starts to wonder just how deep actually is the rabbit hole of her partner’s life? Suddenly the question as to who murdered Emily Waters becomes just as important as why won’t Salton visit his institutionalized son.
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Servant of The Skull: Book 1 – Skullspeaker Series
by Edita A. Petrick
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The moment Gia’s hands touch a skull, the living history of the skull’s owner bursts inside her head. Indeed, for as long as her hands rest on the skull, she is a prisoner of its life-history. When she receives a field assignment in Greece to reconstruct skulls of three victims who perished in a plane crash, she thinks it’s just for identification purposes. But nothing could have prepared her for the kind of situation she walks into. There are just as many family members who want her to do her job as there are those who’ll stop at nothing to prevent it. When the skulls prove to be fake, and a woman’s body is found on the bottom of the cliff, Gia knows the killer would rather see her dead than let her confirm the victims’ identity.
But that’s not what worries her at all. The most worrisome thing is that everyone who has arrived at the cliff-top monastery to wait for Gina to finish her job, stands only to gain a great deal from identification of the victim’s skull. There is no one, but absolutely no one, who stands to lose if the skull proves to be that of the deceased patriarch. So why is someone trying to sabotage Gina’s reconstructive work… ?
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Lords of the Winter Stars – Books 1, 2 and 3
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rimworlds Conspiracy – Book 1
A passionate, beautiful native leader of the resort world of Hettamir who fights to free her people. The idealistic young brother of the confederation president who wants to serve his family as much as his world. Both are about to sign a treaty of great historical significance, but one random act of kindness may give their enemies the ammunition to destroy them all!
On the brink of a major historical first, the resort world of Hettamir and the Galactic Assembly of Star Systems, known as the Confederation, led by President Esteban DeWynter, will sign a treaty. This binding promise is meant to change the destiny of the world. Trusting no one, the president sends his brother, Avram, to sign the treaty on the unified galactic government’s behalf. Accompanied by his family, diplomat Avram DeWynter is glad for the opportunity to serve his galactic community and to spend time with his family.
Ahrun Dyem is the beautiful and passionate native leader of the Hettamir. Determined to free her people from slavery to the tourist industry that drives the economic tides of her world, Ahrun is proud to have brokered their first treaty with the federation. She’s not blind to the factions working to destroy the alliance between Hettamir and the Confederation, but how can she ever imagine that one act of kindness will spark a cataclysmic event and forever change the destiny of every world in the Confederation?
Rimworld Legends – Book 2
Is magic in the jungle real or lore… ?
A young envoy and his wife, are sent to a distant Rimworld to re-establish commercial and cultural ties with the man the Allied Confederation had appointed as the planetary Regent. The frontier world is a gateway to the new galactic horizons still left to explore. It has enormous developmental potential. It has unbelievable lore and legends about jungle magic that are unlike any in the galaxy. And its Regent is a scheming, treacherous viper who is poised to ‘hand over’ the world to his buddies — the pirates and mercenaries from the neighboring New Hebrides. With the invasion imminent, it’s the worst possible time for the envoy and his wife to find out that they are to become parents — and are stuck on a world that’s about to be decimated by pirates.
Rimworlds Rising – Book 3
The distant future looks promising… and menacing at the same time.
The humanity hasn’t really spread through the galaxy. It was always there, waiting to grow and stretch its technological tendrils into a collective. The ultimate goals was to connect with its many star-clans through alliances — and common enemies.
The Rimworlds are the distant coveted frontier — raw and unexplored. When the Allies establish a Regency on Synoor, a charming frontier world that’s strategically positioned between their mortal enemies, the Shoultain Warlords, and the privateer strongholds in New Hebrides, they believe they’ve gained a huge advantage in the deadly game of galactic expansion. Two decades later, the world is attacked by pirates. Its solitary Allied settlement is razed to the ground. No one is thought to have survived; certainly not the son of the fleet admiral and his wife who were sent to Synoor to confirm rumors of Shoultain collaboration… and determine whether it’s just local lore or whether there’s more to the rumors that there is “magic in the jungle.”
But someone did survive the horrific massacre, though it’s not anyone who should be allowed to leave the world.
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Rimworld Outcast: Lords of the Winter Stars – Book Four
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Romance | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science Fiction
Two extraordinary young women, each harboring a terrible secret buried in their tragic past, penetrate several layers of security to gain access to a fearful prison planet.
Karin is a prodigy. She psychoanalyzed a roomful of medical professionals at seven. She sliced her first cadaver — real, not plasmaflesh — at twelve. And she rescued a traumatized youngster on a distant Rimworld at fifteen. Then offered to be her friend and mentor. The world sees an extraordinary young woman wasting her talent and potential serving as a field medic on dilapidated freighters and destroyers. What the world doesn’t see is what drives Karin to do what she does. A need for revenge so deep-seated it corrodes her every dream. Karin is like a diamond emblem on a shuttle-wreck floating in a junkyard.
Kitaya is a foundling. Her savage name makes her an outcast. History full of tales of enemy spies inserted into the ranks of humans as clones, is a padlock on her rightful place in the ranks of the DeWynter aristocracy. She is alternately feared and scorned, depending on what relative crosses her path. She backs away from every conflict before it even starts to heat up. Retreat makes her invisible. It’s precisely what Karin told her to do in order to safeguard her future… and that of every living creature in the galaxy.
But there is one conflict that rises in their path that neither Karin nor Kitaya can ignore.
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Winter Stars – Lords of the Winter Stars Book 5
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
In ten thousand years of bitter conflict, the enemy has not revealed its greatest secret… and the humanity has no idea how close they are to extinction.
Five years ago, a deadly conflict unfolded in a jungle clearing on a distant Rimworld — otherwise known as the last galactic frontier.
A young girl lost her heritage and was cast out to survive in a complex and hostile galactic society. Those who were her caretakers for thirteen years, blocked her memory of who she was, how she came to be their ward and most importantly why, then faded from the galactic scene. Unwanted by her parents’ star-clans, and ostracized by those who should take care of her upbringing, Kitaya lives for the infrequent trans-galactic calls from Karin. The young doctor is the only one who knows that Kitaya is a seed of new galactic order — a formidable telepath who one day may even eclipse the frontier gods who cared for her for thirteen years and then cast her out. But that’s not why she remains Kitaya’s friend. Five years ago, she matched Kitaya’s DNA against her parents and the DeWynter nobility refused to accept the Rimworld foundling. It’s when Karin realized that everyone outside the Rimworlds wants nothing more than to lock up the child who is not just the hereditary DeWynter duchess but the Princess Royal of Bollidor.
Each time Karin visits Kitaya in her remote quarters in the royal palace, she is able to make Kitaya remember snippets of her life before the tragedy in the jungle. She knows that it won’t be easy for Kitaya to re-discover her mental talents without revealing herself to members of her extended family, but progress is measured in tiny steps, not quantum leaps.
Finally, the day arrives when Kitaya is allowed to leave the world that has been her prison for five years. With Karin by her side, they head for Caritan, the birth-world of Kitaya’s father and one of the four Core worlds of the Confederate Union. Their first joint assignment is mundane… or so it seems. Providing escort to a drone convoy carrying supplies for worlds that lie on the other side of the Neutral Zone — in the enemy’s backyard. It’s a test and a trap — and they both know it. The marine humanoid race that has been in a state of conflict with the mostly human populations of the Confederate Union, is known for its cunning and cruelty. Since the two have been mortal enemies for millennia, and the aggression is always about the borders and galactic expansion, there are no secrets to uncover… then again, there has never been a human telepath of Kitaya’s skill and magnitude going out on convoy escort through the enemy territory.
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