Yoro was in labor. Something was wrong, the child wouldn't come. Finally, after many hours she delivered but the boy child was dead. She cried herself to sleep. Her breasts were swollen with milk and no child to drink. She woke to find a boy child nursing. He had a white star on his right cheek, she traced the star with her fingertip and said, my little star. That's what I shall call you, my star.
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Hi big guy, she sat her foot up on the bench, hiking her skirt to show a generous expanse of thigh.
We need a cook, I would stand good for you. She was only fifteen and Star couldn't stand to see what the life of a hooker would do to her so he recruited her to be a cook on his upcoming mission. Nova Henderson was her name. Straight from the hemp fields of Fellis, a small recruiting world.
In the second book in the Ember Reign series, Megan and her friends decide to investigate a haunted mansion to discover it was once a secret government laboratory dealing with extraterrestrial biological entities.
