Sinbad may have traded in his smuggler’s leathers for farmer’s coveralls but “Happily Ever After” isn’t in the cards for him and his beloved Andrea.
And Andi soon finds there’s a great deal she doesn’t know about her new husband…such as the young stranger who claims to be Sin’s son.
While she’s recovering from that shock, Sin succumbs to the terminal illness he’s kept secret from everyone. Not to worry…there’s a surgeon who can save his life, but Jean-Clair DuPont is as unscrupulous as he is skilled.
His fee? Andi, for the duration of her husband’s convalescence.
The new Mrs. sh’en Singh doesn’t think twice. DuPont gets what he wants and Sin lives to fight another day…once he recovers.
That had better happen soon, for Andi’s lover-by-force has taken her off-planet and directly into an attack by slavetraders. Now a candidate for the slave pits of Bel-Ammon, Andi finds herself face-to-face with enemies new and old.
T.S. Snow is a pseudonym of author Toni V. Sweeney, who has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West, and a decade on the Pacific Coast and is now trying for her second 30 on the Great Plains.
Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, she divides her time between writing Fantasy/Horror under her own name and SciFi/SpaceOpera/Romance under her pen name.
Sinbad sh'en Singh, the quintessential anti-hero from Star Smugglers Book 1—which totally knocked off our socks—has met his match in Andi, Talltrees. He’s always known she is brave, fearless and committed to her husband and children. But as his life comes to an end from the fatal lung disease contracted during one of his incarcerations, Andi will do anything, any thing, to save his life—even if it means succumbing to the lecherous Dr. DuPont. Sinbad is her life and she’ll tolerate the worst to achieve the best—the survival of her husband, father of her children. One disaster after another rain on this strong woman’s head. But if Andi is nothing else, she is a survivor. And watching her survive well is an absolute joy. As with Book 1 of this sci-fi adventure/space opera, Book 2 will keep you turning the pages—it's that good. At times funny, then frightening, it is a heart warming experience. Give yourself a gift by picking up this one up. It's another wonder from the multi-talented T.S. Snow.
On a scale of 1-5, Star Smuggler: A Course of Action deserves a 7.
I've read nearly 300 books this year. This is the only one star. It might have a spaceship on the cover, but there is nothing about the book remotely Sci-Fi. It's a crappy romance novel -- if you're idea of romance is men utilizing women through blackmail or violence. It's not sexy. It's tedious trash and -- worst of all -- a complete waste of some potentially entertaining characters.
“A Course of Action (Star Smuggler Book 2)” continues a harlequin-esque romance novel of a passive-aggressive harpy, who masks her proclivity for domination and submission by being a ‘good’ homemaker.
In this follow-on to Book 1, the ‘heroine’ submits to being blackmailed into sexual submission by a surgeon on order to save her human-feline hybrid husband from his known fatal disease. She also tosses off her infant son to the blackmailer’s accomplice/housemaid as she goes on a vacation with the surgeon.