Crash Land on Kurai

Book 1: The Hikoboshi Series

by SJ Pajonas

Genres: Science Fiction Romance; Science Fiction; Sci-fi Action & Adventure; Space Opera

Synopsis

He’s dangerous, and she’s desperate for his help. Will he be her savior or the cause of her enslavement?

 

Disgraced journalist Yumi Minamoto is no stranger to risk. She’s been handed a second chance to save her name back home by documenting a peaceful mission to the Hikoboshi System, and she’s determined to do just that. But when her ship is attacked, she’s separated from her brother, and her life pod crash lands on a dying moon. The mission is torn to pieces, and she finds herself in the middle of a deadly civil war.

 

Now Yumi must navigate the unfamiliar terrain, face off against murderous androids, and grapple with a paranoid leader, struggling to stay alive amidst a culture she doesn’t understand. Even more threatening, Yumi finds herself attracted to Rin and his quiet strength and soon discovers his knowledge of the native’s customs could be the key to her survival. As Yumi’s search for her brother intensifies, can she find the courage to trust Rin — and the truth she’s desperately seeking — before she’s destroyed by the power struggle between love and war?

 

Crash Land on Kurai is the first book in the fast-paced Hikoboshi Space Opera Romance Series.

If you like high-tech futures, intergalactic battles, and heart-pounding romance, then you’ll love S. J. Pajonas’s thrilling sci-fi adventure romance.

 

Note: THIS SERIES MUST BE READ IN ORDER. It is a true series and plot elements carry through every book, from beginning to end. You will miss too much by reading this series out of order or skipping around. This series contains a slow-burn romance, profanity, and sexual situations.

Release date: July 18, 2017

Publisher: Onigiri Press

Print pages: 256

Sample

Kazuo and Gen sit and divide up the supplies, turning out the medkits and fashioning them into backpacks with some of the chair straps we stripped from the life pod. Ryoko and I sit around the campfire, chewing on smoked protein strips, munching on freeze dried berries, and drinking water.

“Will you be okay traveling alone with him?” I whisper to her.

She waves me off. “Psh, he’s fine. More bark than bite. It’s just…” She sighs and folds her arms over her knees while staring into the fire. “Will you tell them, when this is over, that I wanted to follow procedure?”

My lips quirk as I remember her interview. Ryoko always did play by the rules, and she knew them backwards and forwards. No need to learn them yourself if she’s on your team.

I knock my elbow into her. “Of course. If I’m still alive, I’ll be sure to tell them you were the pinnacle of honor and forthrightness.”

She rolls her eyes at me. “You’re a walking thesaurus, you know that?”

“I believe that’s my job.” I clear my throat and put on my best newscaster voice. “Today, on a foreign moon off the third planet in the Altair system, the Murasaki encountered certain doom at the hands of an inimitable foe. After missiles were fired and damaged the ship without provocation, the crew escaped to the moon’s surface to be met with incurable injuries, starvation, and cannibalism.”

“Ew!” She chucks a freeze-dried berry at me.

“I made that last part up, but you know, stay safe.”