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The Sectors #14.5
Return Voyage
This book is a re-release of STAR CRUISE RETURN VOYAGE, which was in the Pets in Space® 5 anthology. No new material has been added.
Gianna Nadenoft is a reclusive survivor of one of the worst interstellar cruise ship disasters in the history of the Sectors. Now a renowned artist, she hasn’t left her home planet in decades, not since returning there after the wreck as a traumatized three year old. With her service animal at her side, she’s going to make the effort to travel across the star systems to attend her brother’s wedding and reunite with her fellow survivors.
Trevor Hanson is a security officer aboard the cruise liner Nebula Zephyr with his own traumatic past as a former Special Forces soldier and prisoner of war. He’s assigned to provide personal protection to Gianna during her time aboard the ship but soon finds his interest turning from professional to romantic. The two share more in common than either of them realizes and their attraction grows as the voyage continues.
But powerful enemies including a conspiracy theory-obsessed fellow passenger and sinister individuals with hostile intentions are watching Gianna and making plans to seize this rare opportunity to gain access to her and the secrets they believe she’s still keeping about the wreck. Can Trevor overcome his personal demons and rise to the occasion to save Gianna from the danger waiting on his ship? Or will she slip through his fingers and suffer a terrible fate deferred from the day her last voyage came to a disastrous end?
Gianna Nadenoft is a reclusive survivor of one of the worst interstellar cruise ship disasters in the history of the Sectors. Now a renowned artist, she hasn’t left her home planet in decades, not since returning there after the wreck as a traumatized three year old. With her service animal at her side, she’s going to make the effort to travel across the star systems to attend her brother’s wedding and reunite with her fellow survivors.
Trevor Hanson is a security officer aboard the cruise liner Nebula Zephyr with his own traumatic past as a former Special Forces soldier and prisoner of war. He’s assigned to provide personal protection to Gianna during her time aboard the ship but soon finds his interest turning from professional to romantic. The two share more in common than either of them realizes and their attraction grows as the voyage continues.
But powerful enemies including a conspiracy theory-obsessed fellow passenger and sinister individuals with hostile intentions are watching Gianna and making plans to seize this rare opportunity to gain access to her and the secrets they believe she’s still keeping about the wreck. Can Trevor overcome his personal demons and rise to the occasion to save Gianna from the danger waiting on his ship? Or will she slip through his fingers and suffer a terrible fate deferred from the day her last voyage came to a disastrous end?
- GenresScience Fiction Romance
137 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 6, 2020
About the author
Veronica Scott
91 books244 followersUSA Today Best Selling Science Fiction & Paranormal Romance author.
Veronica Scott grew up in a house with a library as its heart. Dad loved science fiction, Mom loved ancient history and Veronica thought there needed to be more romance in everything. When she ran out of books to read, she started writing her own stories.
MISC FACTS ABOUT VERONICA
Seven time winner ~ SFR Galaxy Award
Proud recipient ~ NASA Exceptional Service Medal but must hasten to add the honor was not for her romantic fiction!
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt – I’ll improve your process (mwahahahaa)!
Elvis Presley’s best friend once serenaded Veronica on a local TV telethon…now that could be a novel…
Veronica Scott grew up in a house with a library as its heart. Dad loved science fiction, Mom loved ancient history and Veronica thought there needed to be more romance in everything. When she ran out of books to read, she started writing her own stories.
MISC FACTS ABOUT VERONICA
Seven time winner ~ SFR Galaxy Award
Proud recipient ~ NASA Exceptional Service Medal but must hasten to add the honor was not for her romantic fiction!
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt – I’ll improve your process (mwahahahaa)!
Elvis Presley’s best friend once serenaded Veronica on a local TV telethon…now that could be a novel…
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March 4, 2023
Things come full circle when Return Voyage brings the youngest character from Wreck of the Nebula Dream, prequel to the series, back aboard the Nebula Zephyr a later-built cruise ship and a confrontation with her memories of the past. I had high expectations for this third story in the Nebula Dream sub-series and I was not disappointed.
Gianna Nadecroft was a child of three and only one of six survivors of a thousand people when the famous Nebula Dream disaster took place. Since then, she has never left her home world and barely left the grounds of her family estate. She suffers from PTSD, but copes with her amazing service animal and her artistic talent that has made her famous in another, more rewarding sense. Now, she must leave the planet and travel for her brother’s wedding. She will travel aboard the Nebula Dream’s later-built sister ship, Nebula Zephyr. Gianna determines she will face her memories and use the ship to help. A former Special Forces soldier and now ship security officer has been sent to guide and assist all the way.
Lt. Trevor Hanson came from a background light years away from the lavish wealth of Gianna’s family and he got away from those circumstances in the military only to fall prey to capture and rough treatment in an alien enemy prison which broke him and nearly killed him. Out of the military as a result, he copes in his job, but he is wary when his assignment is a woman with her own nightmarish past. They sense the darkness in each other, the struggles, and it bonds them even while attraction builds too as they spend so much time together. Trevor has a secret that he suspects will be the one thing Gianna won’t be able to handle. But, that will all need to wait as the past is confronted and more danger lurks.
I love the blend of action, romance, and character development that comes together quickly because of the page count, but is fully-formed nonetheless. The complexities of relationship and mental health struggles, mysteries, intrigues, as well as the amazing space cruise setting and familiar cast of characters had me deeply engaged with the story and sad when I clicked on the final page. The big climax scene was worth the buildup as was the warm and spicy denouement that came after showing what will come after for Gianna and Trevor. I hope there are more adventures with the Captain, Maeve, the crew and the Nebula Zephyr.
Sci-fi Romance and Space Opera fans should definitely have this series on their radar.
My full review will post at Books of My Heart on Feb 19th.
Gianna Nadecroft was a child of three and only one of six survivors of a thousand people when the famous Nebula Dream disaster took place. Since then, she has never left her home world and barely left the grounds of her family estate. She suffers from PTSD, but copes with her amazing service animal and her artistic talent that has made her famous in another, more rewarding sense. Now, she must leave the planet and travel for her brother’s wedding. She will travel aboard the Nebula Dream’s later-built sister ship, Nebula Zephyr. Gianna determines she will face her memories and use the ship to help. A former Special Forces soldier and now ship security officer has been sent to guide and assist all the way.
Lt. Trevor Hanson came from a background light years away from the lavish wealth of Gianna’s family and he got away from those circumstances in the military only to fall prey to capture and rough treatment in an alien enemy prison which broke him and nearly killed him. Out of the military as a result, he copes in his job, but he is wary when his assignment is a woman with her own nightmarish past. They sense the darkness in each other, the struggles, and it bonds them even while attraction builds too as they spend so much time together. Trevor has a secret that he suspects will be the one thing Gianna won’t be able to handle. But, that will all need to wait as the past is confronted and more danger lurks.
I love the blend of action, romance, and character development that comes together quickly because of the page count, but is fully-formed nonetheless. The complexities of relationship and mental health struggles, mysteries, intrigues, as well as the amazing space cruise setting and familiar cast of characters had me deeply engaged with the story and sad when I clicked on the final page. The big climax scene was worth the buildup as was the warm and spicy denouement that came after showing what will come after for Gianna and Trevor. I hope there are more adventures with the Captain, Maeve, the crew and the Nebula Zephyr.
Sci-fi Romance and Space Opera fans should definitely have this series on their radar.
My full review will post at Books of My Heart on Feb 19th.
March 13, 2021
Perfectly re-readable!
After reading this story in Pets 5, I jumped at the chance to read it again. What a pleasure it was to get to know Trevor and Gianna and the Nebula Zephyr all over again! The story gained rather than lost this time. The characters are more than 3 dimensional, the world of the ship is awe inspiring and the storyline exciting. You couldn’t ask for more.
After reading this story in Pets 5, I jumped at the chance to read it again. What a pleasure it was to get to know Trevor and Gianna and the Nebula Zephyr all over again! The story gained rather than lost this time. The characters are more than 3 dimensional, the world of the ship is awe inspiring and the storyline exciting. You couldn’t ask for more.
March 14, 2021
Fab as usual
It was awesome seeing the brave group from the dream. Wish there was more of Paolo’s life but good all the same. Was nice how you wove the Badari series into this one with the Melureans. Was a very interesting story of past acceptance and letting go. Learning to cope and surpass the trauma.
It was awesome seeing the brave group from the dream. Wish there was more of Paolo’s life but good all the same. Was nice how you wove the Badari series into this one with the Melureans. Was a very interesting story of past acceptance and letting go. Learning to cope and surpass the trauma.
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