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Project Paradigm #1
Vigilance
When Beckett’s team was chosen for Project Paradigm he knew his life would never be the same. Genetic manipulation tended to do that to a person. Against all likelihood, his entire team survived the experimental hybridization process that left them with the ability to shift into the same eight foot saber-toothed cat form that their enemy, the Lysasti, could assume at will. With that victory, he thought perhaps the war might begin to go their way.
What he hadn’t expected was for the war to end while he was still learning to use his new abilities, turning his team’s existence from an asset into a liability the Alliance of Terra Planets could ill afford. With the ink still drying on the Project’s kill orders, Beckett’s team had staged their own deaths, accepting they would never see Earth again. Instead, they turned their sights outward, to planets never before seen by human eyes.
Five years later, Beck’s life might not be all he once thought it would be, but he’s got no complaints. The team has managed to carve out a name for itself in freelance data and property retrieval. Yes, most of their clients walked on the shady side of the law but they paid their bills on time and didn’t ask too many questions.
At least that was Beck’s opinion until their latest case led them to Lysa, home planet to the Lysasti. A planet they’d studiously avoided ever since the end of the war and the place where all of Beck’s beliefs about Project Paradigm and the Lysasti would be tested. Where his team’s place in the universe would unravel...leaving him with more questions than answers.
Chief among them: what to do with Ciro, the Lysasti who had quickly become both the bane and salvation of Beck’s existence. Ciro who along with his brother, Etan, ran a legitimate trading operation. Ciro who maintained at least one unfortunate friendship that would lead them to cross paths with Beck’s team. A meeting that through fate or old-fashioned bad luck, would see them all swept up into a web of intrigue that would stretch across the galaxy.
What he hadn’t expected was for the war to end while he was still learning to use his new abilities, turning his team’s existence from an asset into a liability the Alliance of Terra Planets could ill afford. With the ink still drying on the Project’s kill orders, Beckett’s team had staged their own deaths, accepting they would never see Earth again. Instead, they turned their sights outward, to planets never before seen by human eyes.
Five years later, Beck’s life might not be all he once thought it would be, but he’s got no complaints. The team has managed to carve out a name for itself in freelance data and property retrieval. Yes, most of their clients walked on the shady side of the law but they paid their bills on time and didn’t ask too many questions.
At least that was Beck’s opinion until their latest case led them to Lysa, home planet to the Lysasti. A planet they’d studiously avoided ever since the end of the war and the place where all of Beck’s beliefs about Project Paradigm and the Lysasti would be tested. Where his team’s place in the universe would unravel...leaving him with more questions than answers.
Chief among them: what to do with Ciro, the Lysasti who had quickly become both the bane and salvation of Beck’s existence. Ciro who along with his brother, Etan, ran a legitimate trading operation. Ciro who maintained at least one unfortunate friendship that would lead them to cross paths with Beck’s team. A meeting that through fate or old-fashioned bad luck, would see them all swept up into a web of intrigue that would stretch across the galaxy.
207 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 8, 2020
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About the author
Cy St. Clair
2 books2 followersCy has a soft spot for all books and wrote her first one at seven. In the years since, she attempted works in several genres before finally deciding to marry her favorites of paranormal, sci-fi, and romance in the world of Project Paradigm.
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July 26, 2022
Fairly decent sci-fi / alien world-building with scant detail on the sabre-tooth tiger morphology. The action flags in several places as the author diverts attention away from escaping the long arm of Lysantian justice and into M-M romance and relations-building as the two MCs are forced to spend time (not all that reluctantly) masquerading as lovers on the down-low. Had to fast-forward a few sections to get back to some semblance of progressive plot action. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3 - and still undecided whether to get the next book in the series.
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