Surviving the Trip of a Lifetime
Lina knows she got incredibly lucky on her first marine xenobiology assignment.
Investigating life forms on Sarkans 3, an exclusive and spectacular leisure planet.
But a bizarre unnatural event warns her of truly dangerous times ahead.
Decades of research, countless lives, and the foundation of humanity's spacefaring culture hang in the balance.
Will Lina uncover the mysterious forces at work before her world collapses around her?
Find out in this exciting space opera adventure!
An excerpt from Dangerous Days on a Pleasure Planet:
A Slow-Motion Disaster
The water had withdrawn past her tidal pool and well beyond where the red sand was exposed even at the lowest of tides.
The utter silence with the ongoing background noise of waves left her ears and nerves wailing.
Even the tourists were quiet.
Lina turned and scrambled out of her now-drained collection spot, trying not to slip on the mat of seaweed and clutching her pack in one hand. She waved the other over her head and yelled as loud as she could.
"Get to high ground, now! Call in your support scoot for emergency rescue!"
All the climbers who'd been so active and busy and noisy simply stared, either at her or the widening expanse of beach. Their confused eyes and faces scattered all over the cliff's surface might have been amusing if they weren't in danger they didn't seem to understand.
Running toward her own sky-scoot and wishing she dared change into the boots in her pack, Lina shouted again.
"Get away from the beach! Can't you see?"
Autorentext
Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That's just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction.
Kari's first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018.
Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019.
Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she's happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they're better off not knowing more about.
Kari's novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.