"The reader is drawn into a believable, realistic world."
A few days before Christmas, United Flight 58 from Hawaii
that First Officer Jordan Cady was co-piloting encountered
what they thought was very bad weather. It wasn't. It was
an intergalactic medium-sized starship cruiser, Savior,
that captured the jet liner and its passengers and crew.
The discovery of their capture sets off an evolving plan to
do whatever it takes to get back home, even though they are
gazillions of miles away. On the starship bridge, Kao Vantaar-Moray, adopted son of
Commodore-elite Moray, is assigned to assist with the
rescued refugees of Earth's destruction. Kao himself is an
emotionally and physically scarred survivor of imprisonment
and torture in the Talagar/Alliance war. And so the tale
begins... Jordan is divorced with a six-year-old daughter whom she
desperately wants to get back to. Kao is struggling to get
back to a semblance of life after his ordeal, and to
overcome the shame of being the only one in his unit to
survive. While Jordan leads the refugees' plot for their
escape, Kao becomes attracted to her. As the story of
traitors and turncoats, undercover operations, and personal
understanding and relationships grows, the reader is drawn
into a believable, realistic world. Susan Grant's finely
crafted well-rounded lead and supporting characters are
multi-dimensional and interesting. Ms. Grant dodges the "alien as non-human" conundrum by
introducing "The Seeders", humans who roamed the universe
planting their DNA. Although love interests look different,
they are all humanoid but different races in this alien
world. While the impetus for the airplane hijacking is obtaining
human slaves, Susan Grant takes care to acknowledge the
events of 9/11 and the consequential effect on the actions
of the passengers and crew. (I believe we would all act
differently now in those circumstances than pre-9/11.) I would recommend CONTACT and Susan Grant's previous works,
all which are Sci-Fi Romance. Reviewed by Karen L. Zorn for Sensual Romance.
Reviewed by Sensual Romance
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted November 18, 2002
A BEAUTIFUL CO-PILOT WITH A TERRIBLE CHOICE.
A DARK STRANGER WHO HAS KNOWN NOTHING BUT DUTY.
A LATE-NIGHT FLIGHT HIJACKED OVER THE PACIFIC.
SummaryA beautiful co-pilot faces a terrible choice when her plane
is hijacked on a late-night flight over the Pacific. Can
she trust the dark-eyed stranger who has seized both her
plane and her heart?
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