Eden and its concluding part Hunted

Excerpt from the book EDEN

 

She started, her eyes flaring wide. The noise she heard echoed up the corridor. With her nerve failing, she jumped to her feet, allowing the broken appliance to fall to the floor. She could already hear heavy footsteps pounding up the corridor as she dashed across to the lobby.

At the exit, she slipped in a puddle of animal blood and fell, sprawling, to the ground. She began to scramble out of the doorway on her stomach, but her ankles were seized and she was whipped backwards at speed.

She was abruptly released, but the momentum caused her to roll until she hit the opposite wall. She lowered her hands, which had instinctively risen to shield her head against the impact, and peered fearfully at her attacker.

His feet, bare and soiled, were planted wide apart, and his naked chest was rising and falling rapidly. He threw something and she covered her head again. The crushed bottle caught her on the back of the hand. She stifled a shocked cry, and peered through her fingers at the alien, her stomach rolling and twisting like waves.

He reeled off a string of words, and she flinched at the tone. He bent towards her and she tried to hide within the wall, but she was lifted by the front of her suit and hung, like a ragdoll, from his hands. Her chin began to tremble.

She was deflated; all fight had fled her body.

‘I’m sorry.’ Tears fell in an endless rush. ‘I thought you’d gone. I thought you were on Taurus. Th-that’s w-why I drank it.’

She was shaken roughly, her head rocking on her shoulders, and then dropped. The instant she hit the floor she curled into the foetal position, with her arms covering her head.

Her senses were acute to sound, and her brain nagged her to flee, but she remained motionless. The old, old trick: play dead. It was miraculous how prehistoric instincts had quickly reasserted their position in her life.

Finally, the bare feet walked away. But she remained in a curled ball, the dismembered animal her neighbour, and wondered if the quality of her life would be worth the struggle to survive.

 EDEN

Fly was an unwilling experiment; Jenny was marooned. 

Both were destined to meet.

Eden book #1

 Excerpt from the book HUNTED

A honnard ran into her line of vision, he was followed by a Jelvia who looped a chain around its neck. He whooped with delight as the caveman fell to the ground. Another Jelvia jumped off a strange-looking creature that looked like a cross between a short-necked giraffe and a horse, and hit a panicking native across the back of the head with a stick. The ‘stick’ had a loop over one end, and when the honnard fell to the floor, the loop was slipped over its head. Another Jelvia ran past, kicking over a carefully arranged stockpile of wood and rocks. He disappeared from view, but another jumped down from the ledge above the mouth of the cave where Jenny was hiding, making her start. He ran forwards and scattered a group of honnards. Jenny saw Zack run out of the trees, his spear aloft, teeth bared. He threw it, and dived to one side as a Jelvia spat. Jenny couldn’t be sure if he’d been hit or not. But a Jelvia lay on the ground clearly dead with a spear sticking out of his chest.

There were lots of yelling and howling, and there was no doubt in Jenny’s mind that these Jelvias had captured Fly—or killed him.

‘Look at this!’ someone shouted, and Jenny saw a Jelvia take the small effigy of her from a tree. ‘The prims believe in her!’

‘There are loads of them,’ someone else said. ‘The prims believe in her.’ The gap she was peering through darkened as the Jelvia pulled the stick doll from above the cave’s entrance.

This close Jenny could only see the lower half of his legs. Another Jelvia joined the one outside her cave and the doll was either dropped or thrown to the ground.

A heel crushed it into the dust, making her believe it was the latter. ‘Utter rubbish,’ the perpetrator said. ‘How many prims have we got?’

‘Four.’

‘That all? Where’s the others?’

‘They ran into the forest!’ someone said. ‘We came in too hard! They’ve run.’

The grinder of the doll swore, and his legs moved away. Then it was over. They left behind their destruction and moved off to find more unsuspecting prisoners. Jenny lowered her head into her arms. How many Jelvias had there been? It was hard to tell, but how could she, a lone woman, fight them and rescue her man?

 

 HUNTED

Odd events remind her that the man she gave everything up for isn’t human. Eden returns with its conclusion in Hunted

Hunted Book #2

Eden - sensual romance series

It's taken longer than I thought, but the paperback for the Eden (sensual romance series) is almost here

This is the new cover. Like it? Trust me, it was very hard looking for a model for Fly. The models were all too pretty, barely out of their teens and unblemished, and for those who've read the book, know that Fly isn't pretty, a teenager or unblemished! He's scarred and certainly not 'pretty'. I never pin-pointed his age in the book, but he's in his mid-thirties.

Hunted (book two in the sensual romance story) will be released as a paperback shortly after Eden.

 

Louise Wise

For those waiting for the paperback version on Eden and Hunted (sensual romance) series...

I've just heard back from my publisher that the paperbacks for Eden and Hunted should be live on the publisher's site within two weeks (end of November), and on Amazon and other on-line retailers by Christmas. 

I'll let all and sundry know when the books are ready with an update on my blog and here. Gosh, I might even celebrate and drop the price of my eBooks! (wish I could do it with the paperbacks, but sadly, only my publisher has control on those).

Meanwhile, here is a reminder of where to buy the eBooks:

Eden sensual romance #1

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THE MISSION
Interplanetary exploration from 2236 Earth to the newly discovered planet, Eden.
BUT THINGS GO FROM BAD
The space explorers are separated and Jenny, the only female of the group, is on her own.
TO WORSE
She isn’t alone. An alien is the sole survivor of his crashed spacecraft.
TO YOU'LL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE
It's buried deep in the human psyche to do anything to keep yourself alive, but does that includes sleeping with the enemy? How far will Jenny go to survive?
THE CONCLUSION
Don't judge until you've read her story. You'd probably do the same.

Hunted sensual romance #2

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With clans of wolf-like people, Neanderthals and a savage tribe of Owains roaming the planet, Fly and Jenny have retreated to a protected corner of the world and live intimately, relying only on themselves.

But the wolf-people join forces with the Neanderthals. It forces Fly and Jenny to re-evaluate their idyllic life, but before they can act Fly disappears forcing Jenny to battle with her fear of the wolf-people.

But when Jenny thinks it can’t get any worse…

She becomes HUNTED.

First review in for Hunted (conclusion to Eden), and...

it's a fabulous one! I don't know the person who wrote it but it's clear that 'History Repeats' is either a writer him/herself or a professional reviewer! 5.0 out of 5 stars  Page-turner sequel! Loved It!, January 14, 2014 By  history repeats  This review is from: Hunted (Eden - Beauty and the Beast) (Kindle Edition) Amazon Nook I absolutely loved Eden and Hunted did not disappoint. This book was a page turner from beginning to end. Ms. Wise writes with the kind of plot suspense and atmospheric danger that you are never sure if she is going to kill off a major character, including the hero or the heroine. There is so much fast-paced action in the second half of the book that I felt a little worn out when I finished it. The natives take a major role in this sequel, and it takes a talented writer to imbue semi-verbal creatures with so much characterization that they feel like friends and enemies. Plus, we finally learn a lot more about Fly's fascinating backstory. As in Eden, Ms. Wise has very rich descriptions of the landscape, making it a character in this book, too. Fly and Jenny are basically explorers and settlers, and their new world plays an appropriately sinister and threatening role. This book was great from beginning to end, and a perfect conclusion to the Eden story. I liked Fly and Jenny so much that I will miss them. They were great characters who solidified their roles as a couple in the first half and then were tested and challenged on so many fronts as individuals in the second half that Ms. Wise left you prepared for their possible demise. It was a breathtaking adventure!

Update problems

It has come to my attention that chapters thirty four to thirty nine are missing from the Kindle  e-version of EDEN'S sequel HUNTED if purchased between December 28 - 31st 2013.

I have contacted my publisher and all customers should receive (if not already) a new update via Amazon on their eReaders.

This only effected Kindle eReaders.

Sincere apologises to all. 

Eden 2 AKA HUNTED has arrived.

It was way over the deadline, and I can only apologise for those waiting to read the concluding story about Jenny and Fly's lives on Eden.

I appreciated everyone's efforts in helping me come up with a title, but I decided to go with HUNTED thought up by yours truly. Those who took the time to help me will have their books featured on WWBB later in the year.

Now, onto HUNTED...

‘I’m scared’, Fly had said. 

He was never scared. He was her hero. Her rugged hero made up from all the romance books she’d read. Big, bold and beautiful—in an alien kind of way.

As a woman from the 23rd century and living life in the fast lane, adapting to her prehistoric world, Jenny was never going to find it easy. She tamed Fly, her alien lover, and fell in love with her new world. She has everything just the way she likes it... for now.

 

But strange events begin to happen that remind Jenny she's not on Earth, and the man she's destined to spend her life with is an alien.

 

And they aren't alone. Someone, or some thing, is hunting them. It's Jenny's turn to fight back in HUNTED.

Click to buy from your Amazon, NOOK or iTunes. Hunted will be available on other eReaders shortly and the paperback will follow spring 2014.
 

Click below to read chapters one and two:

Stranded, but not alone. You only wish you were.

Join in on the Buddy Read of Eden.

Dear Reader

Robinson and Crusoe, The Blue Lagoon, Castaway — I’d read the books and seen the movies. Never thought I’d have my own story to tell, and anyway, you’d think an astronaut would be prepared for such an eventuality, wouldn’t you? We’re trained over months, years, in fact. 

We’re picked especially for our strong mental state. But we’re human just like you. We have emotions just like you. We have fears just like you. The only difference is we learn to control them. 

There were just three of us. Bodie, Matt and myself, Jenny, and we were all on our way to the first manned mission outside the solar system. To a planet that was similar to Earth in size and makeup.

We flew in our respective spacepods, leaving  Taurus, the mother ship, in orbit around Eden, and took our first steps on the planet that had been untouched by humans. Our mission was to embed probes at various pre-marked sites, and collect samples such as rocks, plants, water, you know the mundane, astronauty things before heading back.

But, how can I explain? No training can prepare you for the momentous feelings we were feeling. A sky with two suns, a perpetual twilight with eight moons, a wondrous alien terrain. It was surreal.

On our way to insert the probes, we found an alien spaceship; deserves its own sentence really: We found an alien spaceship. It was easy to tell it had been there a long time because vegetation had started to grow over it and some of it was covered completely. There was an unspoken agreement between us when we abandoned our duties to explore it further.

That’s when it all went wrong. We’d let our human emotions take over. A fatal error.

I found a gap in the side of the spacecraft that was big enough for me to crawl through. Bodie was lacklustre in disallowing it, I think he wanted to find out what it was like inside just as much as me. I found bodies. Countless alien bodies. Most were decapitated. But one, one, was very much alive.

It was a bit of a blank after that. I was dragged back outside, and I remember my throat being constricted and lights dancing behind my eyes. Then I woke to Bodie and Matt not being there and I was on my own.

Alone on an unknown planet.

The alien and my so-called colleagues had gone. I guessed the alien had killed them and had travelled back to Taurus in one of the buggies. Taurus would have killed it instantly, so its attempt to flee ended then and there.

I was alone. Completely alone.

Read my full story in Eden. But before you go — can I just say please don’t judge me. 

You’d do the same.

 Jenny

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THE MISSION 

Interplanetary exploration from 2236 Earth to the newly discovered planet, Eden. The animal life on Eden is on the brink of evolution and humankind wants a first-hand seat. 

THEN THINGS GO FROM BAD 

The space explorers are separated and Jenny, the only female of the group, is on her own.

TO WORSE

Fly, from the planet Itor, is the lone survivor of his crashed spacecraft. He's been on Eden for years. He's watching Jenny--and sees the others leave without her.

TO YOU'LL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE 

Fly has food, shelter and weaponry against hostile animals. All that Jenny needs. It's buried deep in the human psyche to do anything to keep yourself alive, but does that includes sleeping with the enemy?

THE CONCLUSION 

Don't judge until you've read her story. You'd probably do the same.

Join in on the Buddy Read of Eden.

Reviews taken from Goodreads and Amazon:

Considering this book had only four characters, two of them mainly featured, WOW!!!!! I've read this book multiple times it's so engaging. 

The planet Eden was vividly and atmospherically described, the characters were well developed and the plot, although simple, had me hooked. 

What an incredibly original and beautiful journey this was! Louise Wise has created a world that was vivid and engaging in so very many ways that I was captivated from the get go. Sci-fi is not my usual genre, but I really enjoyed Eden.

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this book. It is both good sci-fi about survival on an alien world, and a good romance novel where the romance is with a scary and dangerous alien man.

I read through this book twice because I loved it so much! It's an interesting look at prejudice and overcoming it. It's also a great sci-fi love story!

one of the best i've read, absolutely awesome story. going to read it again. Amazon keeps asking for a review, but then wants to tell me how many words i should use to review it.

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