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Cheap Light Books is proud to announce Torey Rain's first book--His Infernal Juggernaut !
*A marooned starship captain tries desperately to control her fate * An inter-dimensional robot world on the brink of collapse * A cyborg-villain from her past hellbent on revenge...*
It is the far distant future, five thousand years after the Divine Deliverance of Earth. For starship captain Marie Antoinette, escaping to the stars has become second nature, a necessity--a means to control outcomes. Suddenly, though, everything Marie thought she wanted falls into question when her starship is savagely attacked and destroyed by an unsettlingly familiar cyborg. Crash landing her escape pod on the derelict juggernaut Hout, Marie soon realizes that a powerful villain from her past has taken control of the robot world and wants to eradicate her from existence.
Fleeing cyborg Magnus de la Mare’s pirate henchmen, Marie and LUCY, a small odd-ball andromatron with dual personalities, are forced on a perilous journey into the forgotten depths of Hout. Along with an outcast mech-imp named Quilp, Corvin, a raven avian-droid general, and the renegade Aramen mage called Nines, Marie navigates the treacherous interior.
Vicious battles, systems hacks, harrowing escapes, rescues and cypher gates guarded by ancient megalithic robots lead Marie to the mysterious source of the “dark code” and face to face with the resurrected monster from her past.
Through it all, Marie must learn how to overcome the past, come to terms with the child she carries and embrace the duty of her future. (If only she can keep her head).
JUGGERNAUT contains mild sexual situations, violence, intense robot wars, religion questioning, baby trouble and endless and unapologetic amounts of melodrama.
His Infernal Juggernaut is Torey Rain's debut novel.
His Infernal Juggernaut is book 1 in a dark, pulp fiction space opera series, Stories from Outer Space, that highlights unique characters and contemporary issues examined under the lens of a mythic, satirical, far distant future.
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Cheap Light Books is proud to announce Torey Rain's second book--Pearl of Heaven!
Tremont Casteel, ne’er-do-well, brothel boy, former addict, now seeks to live the life he always wanted: to become an agent for the Imperial Intergalactic Intelligence Service.
His big chance comes when he is tasked with infiltrating a crime ring manufacturing untraceable, untappable communi-com devices called ‘amulets’. When the mule Tremont is tracking is unexpected killed in a horrific explosion, Tremont thinks he’s utterly failed. To make matters more complicated, his lover Pennyfeather wants him to give up on his dream. He plans to sweep Tremont away to an island paradise on Ganymede to live happily ever after in order to avoid the intolerant rule of the Empire that would surely kill them both if they discovered the true nature of their relationship.
After a horrible turn of events, Tremont is called back to the IIIS when it is discovered that the ‘amulets’ contain terrifying, colony-destroying capabilities. In a race against time, Tremont enlists the help of the leader of the revolutionary group, the Red Rogues, and follows a trail that leads him from a secret nuclear factory on Io to a floating fantasy land in space, called Aljana, ruled by the very sexy and troubled sultan Jorvan Zayn.
There, Tremont attempts to discover the location of a massive secret detonator that could end up wiping out millions of innocent lives throughout the galaxy. In the process, Tremont faces demons from his past and is forced to answer the question he’s been avoiding all along: why is he vowing to serve and protect a kingdom that hates who he is? After the nuclear dust settles, Tremont realizes that his true self has been trapped crossfire and he must reckon with the harsh reality--that his own blind ambition may mean the eradication of his own true spirit.
Pearl of Heaven is book 2 in a dark, pulp fiction space opera series, Stories from Outer Space, that highlights unique characters and contemporary issues examined under the lens of a mythic, satirical, far distant future.
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