Free this week on Amazon - The Witches' Stones Book One: Rescue from the Planet of the Amartos
Helena
Puumala's Science Fiction Romance novel "The
Witches' Stones Book One: Rescue from the Planet of the Amartos"
will be free on Amazon this Wednesday through Sunday (Novermber 11 to
November 15, 2015).
The book is set in the
middle future, a time when the Milky Way galaxy is rife with
political intrigue, espionage, clandestine action, and danger.
Heroine Sarah Mackenzie and hero Coryn Leigh must battle the shadowy
force known as The Organization, on behalf of the Terra Confederation
and the Witches of Kordea (who are a race of beautiful and powerful
psychic aliens). The Organization has its sights on a weapon that
could upset the fragile balance of power, allowing its political
paymasters to control the galaxy with a deadly and ruthless
efficiency. Sarah is the key around which the action and romance
swirls.
The novel is about 100,000
words, or 250 pages. It is the first book in the Witches' Stones
series; Book 2 is also available, published in May, 2015. Book 3
will follow in the next few months.
The book has a beautiful new
cover, featuring a backdrop painted by artist Leona Olausen, of a
soft gamma repeater (a type of dangerous neutron star), which
represents a pivotal scene in the book.
Links to the book and the
book summary are below.
U.S.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008PNIRP4
U.K.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008PNIRP4
Canada
Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B008PNIRP4
Germany
Amazon: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B008PNIRP4
Australia
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B008PNIRP4
Witches’ Stones Book
One – Rescue from the Planet of the Amartos
Sarah
Mackenzie had trained as a space ship mechanic at the Space Port of
her home city on Earth. She left Earth to explore the galaxy, and,
some months later, landed a dream assignment, to become the ship
mechanic of an Explorer ship, the Beth 117.
The
Beth was on its way to a planet at the edge of the galaxy, where its
crew members were to search for the Witches’ Stones, or amartos,
the mysterious crystals, which the Witches of the world, Kordea, use
to channel and augment their psychic energies. Sarah has no
idea that she, herself, happens to be Stone-sensitive, just like the
Witches are.
Under perilous
circumstances, she comes across the cache of the Stones which the
Explorers are looking for, and, unwittingly, “keys” them,
igniting a psychic blaze that attracts the attention of The
Organization, the implacable foe of the Terra Confederation, the
centuries-old star-spanning government of most of the human race, and
its non-human allies. To make use of amarto-energy, The Organization
needs, not just the Stones, but also amarto-sensitive individuals
whom they enslave to the devices which they have developed in their
pursuit of galactic domination. Thus, they want not just the cache of
Stones; they also want Sarah.
To forestall galactic war,
rescuers, from a counter-intelligence group, known as The Agency, are
sent to the Planet of the Amartos. A fast scoutship, manned by an
Agent and a Pilot, must try to fetch Sarah and the amartos, bringing
them to a safe haven among the Kordean Witches.
Sarah, herself, has to deal
with serious conflicts. In the psychic realm she must choose between
The Organization and the Kordean Witches, while retaining mastery
over her own mind. In the physical reality, she has become the centre
of an armed battle between the Terran scoutship and a military task
force sent by The Organization to capture her and the Stones. Her
determination to keep control of her own self sends her into
unexplored mental realities, while exciting but dangerous physical
events swirl around her and the crew of the scoutship, Camin.
To further complicate
things, she senses within herself, the beginnings of an attraction to
the handsome Agent sent to rescue her. However, she’s merely a
naive young woman from Earth; surely, her hopes are beyond
realization....
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