Welcome to the Release Celebration for Sky Raiders
Sky Raiders is the first book in Michelle’s new space opera series. Michelle has a message below and if you miss the Friday post, you can go HERE, and if you missed the post on Sunday, December 18th, you can go HERE to read about star-crossed lovers. Definitely check out the giveaway below as well. Enjoy!
Sky Raiders
(Sky Raiders #1)
by Michelle Diener
Adult Sci-Fi, Space Opera
ebook, 349 Pages
December 15th 2016
First they flew their mysterious sky craft through the skies of Barit. Then they started attacking. Finally, they began to raid.
Garek’s one year of duty as a guard walking the walls of Garamundo was extended to two when the sky raiders appeared. Two long years away from home and his lover, Taya. When he finally returns, the town is empty. While Garek was protecting Garamundo, the sky raiders were taking their victims from his hometown.
Taya can’t bear looking into the night sky. All she can see is Barit, her home planet. Impossibly, the sky raiders have brought her and their other victims to Shadow, the planet that shadows her own, and looking up makes her aware of everything she’s lost. Garek is out there somewhere. She knows he’ll look, but he’ll never find her.
She and the other captives have to find a way to escape. Without the food and clothes the sky raiders bring them from their raids on Barit, they’ll starve on the almost barren wastes of Shadow. And when they’ve given the sky raiders enough of what they want, that’s exactly what the sky raiders will leave them to do.
What Taya doesn’t realize is she’ll have some help with her plan. Because Garek isn’t giving up on finding her. And he’s even more resourceful than she could ever have imagined.
Nothing is going to keep him from Taya. Not even space itself.
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Star-crossed Lovers Who Won’t Bow to Their Fate
The official definition of star-crossed lovers is two people who love each other deeply but cannot be together because fate is against them. Whatever is written in their stars means they are doomed to never find happiness, never be together.
Obviously, this is not a HEA or even a HFN situation 🙂
Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde . . . they’re the gold standard of star-crossed lovers, but when I was writing Sky Raiders, I thought a lot about the concept, because I kept thinking of Garek and Taya, my hero and heroine, as star-crossed, but only to a point. They love each other, and fate keeps them apart, but neither of them accepts this.
Garek throws caution to the wind and never lets the obstacles in front of him even slow him down in his determination to get to Taya. And she, equally, is driven not only to survive, but also to work a way out of her situation, because she will not give up her desire to be with Garek again.
It was so much fun, but also really poignant, to write a love story like Garek and Taya’s, and I loved every minute of it. I hope my readers enjoy it just as much. Tristan and Isolde, but without the downer at the end 🙂
–Michelle
Michelle Diener is the award-winning, bestselling author of the Class 5 series. She writes historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction and lives in Australia with her husband and two children.
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Release Celebration Giveaway
10 winners will receive a ebook of Sky Raiders
Open internationally
Ends December 22nd
a Rafflecopter giveaway
I just saw that my publisher put the ebook version of IN A TREACHEROUS COURT on sale for $2.99 (ONLY in the USA, unfortunately). Not sure how long it will last, but thought I’d give my US readers the heads-up.
He rescued her despite impossible odds—Garek has rescued Taya and the rest of his village from the sky raiders, but their return home doesn’t bring easier times. The sky raiders aren’t simply going to go away—they still need the shadow ore they came for, and they want the ships Garek stole from them back. But they aren’t the only threat . . . 
