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Star Heroes
Meet the heroes of Bezos Station. . .
STAR PUPPY
Prince Rornn feels fortunate he can pursue his passions both in the air and on the ground. Being third in line for the throne definitely has its advantages – it allowed him to join the Space Forces as a top-gun starfighter pilot. What he doesn’t expect is to find a woman there who not only competes with him – she completes him. They’re already best friends, so why can’t he convince her that they’d be even better as more?
Trysh joined the Space Forces with the secret hope that her absentee father might notice her accomplishments and acknowledge her. At the top of her game as a starfighter pilot, the last thing she needs is a way too charming prince to get in her way. Trysh learned at a young age what happened when a person lost their heart to someone above their social class – it led to heartbreak. But lately Rornn has her wondering if she wouldn’t mind being proved wrong.
Then they rescue a tiny, starving yipwag pup from an alien world. It turns out that “Puppy” is as good at sniffing out terrorists as she is at helping her two clueless humans figure out that they need each other as much as they do her. Now all Rornn’s got to do is convince Trysh that he’s nothing like her father and that she’s just the right woman for him…before the terrorists discover their furry little companion.
STAR HERO
Space Marine Lieutenant Lukas Frank has a lot in common with a street dog named Bang-Bang; they both started off as scrappy orphans fighting to survive—and beat the odds. Things change when Bang-Bang leads Lukas to starpilot Captain Carlynn Riga. The tough war hero learns what it means to surrender…his heart.
Lukas’s struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, threaten to tear the three of them apart, but nothing threatens them more than when Carlynn goes missing on a mission. Now the rugged Marine and his K-9 partner must find Carlynn and bring her home, or risk losing everything he’s finally found worth fighting for.
STAR PUPPY
Prince Rornn feels fortunate he can pursue his passions both in the air and on the ground. Being third in line for the throne definitely has its advantages – it allowed him to join the Space Forces as a top-gun starfighter pilot. What he doesn’t expect is to find a woman there who not only competes with him – she completes him. They’re already best friends, so why can’t he convince her that they’d be even better as more?
Trysh joined the Space Forces with the secret hope that her absentee father might notice her accomplishments and acknowledge her. At the top of her game as a starfighter pilot, the last thing she needs is a way too charming prince to get in her way. Trysh learned at a young age what happened when a person lost their heart to someone above their social class – it led to heartbreak. But lately Rornn has her wondering if she wouldn’t mind being proved wrong.
Then they rescue a tiny, starving yipwag pup from an alien world. It turns out that “Puppy” is as good at sniffing out terrorists as she is at helping her two clueless humans figure out that they need each other as much as they do her. Now all Rornn’s got to do is convince Trysh that he’s nothing like her father and that she’s just the right woman for him…before the terrorists discover their furry little companion.
STAR HERO
Space Marine Lieutenant Lukas Frank has a lot in common with a street dog named Bang-Bang; they both started off as scrappy orphans fighting to survive—and beat the odds. Things change when Bang-Bang leads Lukas to starpilot Captain Carlynn Riga. The tough war hero learns what it means to surrender…his heart.
Lukas’s struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, threaten to tear the three of them apart, but nothing threatens them more than when Carlynn goes missing on a mission. Now the rugged Marine and his K-9 partner must find Carlynn and bring her home, or risk losing everything he’s finally found worth fighting for.
183 pages, ebook
First published February 6, 2018
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About the author
Susan Grant
71 books452 followersSusan’s childhood dreams of becoming a space explorer fizzled when she found out calculus was involved. Luckily, she didn’t need math skills to fly jets--or to create sky-high stories in her head, first for herself, then for friends, and now for readers everywhere.
A New York Times/USA Today bestselling author and a military veteran, Susan won the prestigious RITA® Award for her book Contact, a sci-fi aviation-thriller romance.
A New York Times/USA Today bestselling author and a military veteran, Susan won the prestigious RITA® Award for her book Contact, a sci-fi aviation-thriller romance.
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September 16, 2021
Star Heroes is a two-novella book featuring stories that appeared originally in the esteemed Pets in Space anthologies one and two.
First up, Star Puppy, is an adorable tale of a smart, sweet Baresh Yipwag puppy who brings two romantically challenged humans together and puts them onto a terrorist plot.
Rorrn is a Vash Nadah prince who leaves the palace to follow his dreams to be a military star pilot as part of the fleet who patrol the frontier worlds under Earth's oversight. He loves his fellow pilot, Trysh, but she resists his efforts to court her. Trysh is competing with the exasperatingly charming Rorrn and struggles to resist his flirting efforts with her. He isn't serious and besides, after her high class military hero dad abandoned her trailer class mom and wanted nothing to do with her, she will trust that rather than her heart to the Vash prince. Until a puppy...
Engaging and warmhearted with a tinge of intrigue. Loved that Puppy gets to narrate alongside her 'Tall Ones'.
Star Hero is the second of the two novellas telling the heroic story of Puppy's Yipwag buddy, Bang Bang and his 'Tall Ones'. Bang Bang was a rescue dog for the taciturn Marine, Lt. Lukas Frank, and he happily repaid his companion by bringing him to Star Pilot, Carlynn Riga, in a love at first sight moment. All seems to be going well between the big Marine and the charming star pilot until Lukas' PTSD starts driving a wedge into their relationship when he shuts down and pretends he's fine. It takes Carlynn disappearing while on a mission for Lukas to realize what he stands to lose. Bang Bang must help his Tall Ones find each other once again.
I loved this quick sci-fi military love story with a dog hero matchmaker. It might be short, but is full of excitement and nice development.
First up, Star Puppy, is an adorable tale of a smart, sweet Baresh Yipwag puppy who brings two romantically challenged humans together and puts them onto a terrorist plot.
Rorrn is a Vash Nadah prince who leaves the palace to follow his dreams to be a military star pilot as part of the fleet who patrol the frontier worlds under Earth's oversight. He loves his fellow pilot, Trysh, but she resists his efforts to court her. Trysh is competing with the exasperatingly charming Rorrn and struggles to resist his flirting efforts with her. He isn't serious and besides, after her high class military hero dad abandoned her trailer class mom and wanted nothing to do with her, she will trust that rather than her heart to the Vash prince. Until a puppy...
Engaging and warmhearted with a tinge of intrigue. Loved that Puppy gets to narrate alongside her 'Tall Ones'.
Star Hero is the second of the two novellas telling the heroic story of Puppy's Yipwag buddy, Bang Bang and his 'Tall Ones'. Bang Bang was a rescue dog for the taciturn Marine, Lt. Lukas Frank, and he happily repaid his companion by bringing him to Star Pilot, Carlynn Riga, in a love at first sight moment. All seems to be going well between the big Marine and the charming star pilot until Lukas' PTSD starts driving a wedge into their relationship when he shuts down and pretends he's fine. It takes Carlynn disappearing while on a mission for Lukas to realize what he stands to lose. Bang Bang must help his Tall Ones find each other once again.
I loved this quick sci-fi military love story with a dog hero matchmaker. It might be short, but is full of excitement and nice development.
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November 4, 2022
STAR HERO was STRAY in Pets in Space 1
I read the original short version in the PETS IN SPACE 1 box set. See review below.
Whilst this stays true to the original, we get so much more about Lucas and Carolyn.
Lukas and his struggle with PTSD is referred to more and done in such a believable way.
Carlynn also seems more rounded and likeable. I loved their interaction in this story.
I thoroughly enjoyed this new extended version.
ORIGINAL REVIEW from Pets in Space Anthology.
My review from STRAY, the original title in the box set.
I have never read anything by this author before and I have been missing out. What a wonderful story that kept me reading right to the end. It grips you from the first words and you feel yourself in Bang Bang’s place.
I felt for Lukas with his PTSD and was sorry it made his relationship with Carlynn difficult.
Both Carlynn and Lukas felt real to me without any silliness and I just loved Bang Bang. What a sweetie.
I was glad to read the puppy also gets her own book.
Will be looking for more from this author.
STAR PUPPY
What a lovely sweet read. Condensed a bit which is a pity but nonetheless enjoyable. Lovely to read what happened to Puppy whom we very briefly met in the PETS IN SPACE box set.
Trysh and Rornn go from friends to lovers but Trysh struggles with believing Rornn loves her due to the differences in how they were raised.
The negativity from her mother and the snubbing from her father who ignored her existence have all combined to create Trysh’s belief that she is not lovable or good enough for Rornn.
Rornn nearly realises too late how special Trysh is to him when someone else shows an interest in Trysh.
Luckily Rornn is a Vash Prince and is not giving up on his special one but everything he says and tries gets lost in translation. It does not help that women flock to him and he naturally flirts not knowing it reinforces Trysh’s opinion of him.
Puppy is a yipwag, they are extremely smart, easily trainable but are also eaten as food on their planet. When she gets saved by Rornn and Trysh her life changes for the better.
This gives Rornn a reason to spend more time with Trysh. He finally convinces her he is serious.
Puppy gets trained to be a K9 unit and when Puppy discovers a bomb and alerts Rornn and Trysh they are able to save a lot of lives.
The epilogue with Trysh’s dad was not interesting but it may give Trysh closure of sorts.
I read the original short version in the PETS IN SPACE 1 box set. See review below.
Whilst this stays true to the original, we get so much more about Lucas and Carolyn.
Lukas and his struggle with PTSD is referred to more and done in such a believable way.
Carlynn also seems more rounded and likeable. I loved their interaction in this story.
I thoroughly enjoyed this new extended version.
ORIGINAL REVIEW from Pets in Space Anthology.
My review from STRAY, the original title in the box set.
I have never read anything by this author before and I have been missing out. What a wonderful story that kept me reading right to the end. It grips you from the first words and you feel yourself in Bang Bang’s place.
I felt for Lukas with his PTSD and was sorry it made his relationship with Carlynn difficult.
Both Carlynn and Lukas felt real to me without any silliness and I just loved Bang Bang. What a sweetie.
I was glad to read the puppy also gets her own book.
Will be looking for more from this author.
STAR PUPPY
What a lovely sweet read. Condensed a bit which is a pity but nonetheless enjoyable. Lovely to read what happened to Puppy whom we very briefly met in the PETS IN SPACE box set.
Trysh and Rornn go from friends to lovers but Trysh struggles with believing Rornn loves her due to the differences in how they were raised.
The negativity from her mother and the snubbing from her father who ignored her existence have all combined to create Trysh’s belief that she is not lovable or good enough for Rornn.
Rornn nearly realises too late how special Trysh is to him when someone else shows an interest in Trysh.
Luckily Rornn is a Vash Prince and is not giving up on his special one but everything he says and tries gets lost in translation. It does not help that women flock to him and he naturally flirts not knowing it reinforces Trysh’s opinion of him.
Puppy is a yipwag, they are extremely smart, easily trainable but are also eaten as food on their planet. When she gets saved by Rornn and Trysh her life changes for the better.
This gives Rornn a reason to spend more time with Trysh. He finally convinces her he is serious.
Puppy gets trained to be a K9 unit and when Puppy discovers a bomb and alerts Rornn and Trysh they are able to save a lot of lives.
The epilogue with Trysh’s dad was not interesting but it may give Trysh closure of sorts.
March 18, 2023
I read these stories when they were in the Pets in Space anthologies and I loved them then. The way these two little yipwags yipped themselves into the lives of Terran military personnel and inadvertently made matches between their humans was charming (no pun intended where the pilot is concerned) and therapeutic (for the ones suffering from PTSD, abandonment and bad breakups). Why are there so few pets allowed on military installations? These yipwags suggest that they would be essential personnel! So sweet, so heartwarming, so fun!
March 28, 2020
Enjoyed this cute duology about two puppies from Bezos Station above the colony of Baresh and their owners. Smarter than people know they used their intelligence to bring the two couples together.
February 2, 2022
Dog stories in space
Such a fun topic with a 1st person view from the dogs every so often. Loved the romance and twists. Definitely a fun read.
Such a fun topic with a 1st person view from the dogs every so often. Loved the romance and twists. Definitely a fun read.
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