Crisis at Validor

Newly-promoted Captain Brett Butcher is about to achieve his life-long ambition to command a battle cruiser. But before he takes up his new posting, he goes home on leave, hoping to perhaps catch a glimpse of his first love, the unattainable Lady Tarlyn.

When the queen is assassinated in a terrorist attack, Tarlyn’s life is thrown into turmoil when she, too, becomes a target. The last person she expects to rescue her is her childhood sweetheart, Brett Butcher.

As Validor’s Ptorix and human populations face off over a group of islands neither owns, the calls for war grow louder. Torn between love, duty and ambition, Butcher and Tarlyn struggle to prevent an inter-species conflict, while the ember of love that has smouldered for so long bursts into flame. But with planetary peace at stake, both will be forced to choose; love or duty.

Crisis at Validor is the 4th in the Ptorix Empire series, but the book is stand-alone. The ebook is priced at $3.99 and is available at Smashwords, Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Kobo etc Greta van der Rol loves writing action-packed adventures with a side salad of romance. Most of her work is space opera, but she has written paranormal and historical fiction. She lives not far from the coast in Queensland, Australia and enjoys photography and cooking when she isn't bent over the computer. She has a degree in history and a background in building information systems, both of which go a long way toward helping her in her writing endeavours.

This is an excellent addition to the Ptorix Empire series. The author continues to dazzle with an intimate exploration of the cultural and political differences between species struggling to maintain a balance within their own spheres of influence and with each other. This time, we take a good look at human and Ptorix at the local level. Their insularity and peculiar histories have created splinter groups within each that make this particular slice of the galactic 'Verse intriguingly complex.

Crisis at Validor is also a romance at its core, truly the best of both worlds, adding the element of sensuality to raise the stakes and to humanize the players acting on a planetary stage in a Universe of colliding cultures and species. (Beach Bum Books)

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