Dive into a universe of friendly aliens, glamorous space elves, insane pirates... and the gutsy human merchant who's just trying to hold it all together...
Earthrise
Her Instruments Book 1
by M.C.A. Hogarth
Genre: Science Fiction Adventure, Space Opera
"The thrills are nonstop,
the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and
there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing
fizzing." — Analog Science Fiction and
Fact
Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping
her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable
enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor
from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her
first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did
promise to repay the loan. But she didn't think it would involve
tangling with pirates over a space elf prince...
Book 1 of
the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the
expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series
where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed
Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.
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Rose Point
Her Instruments Book 2
Reese is only just getting used to
running the Earthrise in the black—and with an Eldritch in her
crew—when a trip to a colony world gives rise to a whole new
problem: Hirianthial is showing powers that even the Eldritch rarely
have, and that only in legend. He badly needs training, support and
advice, and the only place he can find them is... at home.
To
see the world of the Eldritch is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a
thing of fantasies and rumor. And to finally meet the Eldritch Queen,
the author of so many of Reese's windfalls! You'd have to twist her
arm to get her to admit it, but Reese can't wait to go. But a court
out of fantasy and a breathtaking land aren't enough compensation
when they come packaged with a rabidly xenophobic species whose world
is falling apart. The last thing they want any part of is some mortal
interloper.
Is Reese ready for the Eldritch world? Better
to ask: are they ready for her?
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Laisrathera
Her Instruments Book 3
The Queen of the Eldritch has
offered Reese Eddings a life out of a fairy tale, one beyond the
imagination of a poor girl from Mars who’d expected to spend her
life eking out a living with a rattletrap merchant vessel.
Unfortunately, the day Reese reached out to accept Liolesa’s offer,
Hirianthial’s enemies betrayed him--and his entire planet--to a
race of sociopathic shapeshifters with dreams of conquest. Now the
only thing between Reese and a castle of her very own is a maniacal
alien despot, his native quisling and all the Eldritch dead-set on
preventing the incursion of aliens at any cost, including the ousting
of their current usurper, who happens to be an alien
himself...
Reese, Hirianthial and the crew of the
Earthrise have been battling these pirates since Hirianthial’s
capture inspired their fateful meeting, but to beat them Reese will
have to own the power she’s always denied herself, and Hirianthial
must make peace with his bloody past and uncertain future.
The
stakes have never been higher, and this last time will count for all.
The final battlefield awaits.
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A Rose Point Holiday
Her Instruments Book 4
With the Eldritch civil war over, a
castle to renovate, and a wedding to prepare for, the last thing
Reese is thinking about is taking a break. But the new year is coming
and the Eldritch take their holidays very seriously, so Reese decides
it can’t hurt to observe the local proprieties. Who knows? Maybe
it’ll make good practice for what Felith is calling the wedding of
the century. Of course, that was before Reese realized it was going
to involve gifts. And decorating. And a town full of recalcitrant
Eldritch tenants who have no reason to trust her...
"A
Rose Point Holiday" is a short, pastoral novel set during the
last days before Reese becomes Theresa Laisrathera Eddings, lady of
Rose Point Castle and the surrounding lands of Firilith. The Eldritch
have never seen a holiday quite like this one!
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Daughter of two Cuban political
exiles, M.C.A. Hogarth was born a foreigner in the American melting
pot and has had a fascination for the gaps in cultures and the
bridges that span them ever since. She has been many things—-web
database architect, product manager, technical writer and massage
therapist—-but is currently a full-time parent, artist, writer and
anthropologist to aliens, both human and otherwise.
Her
fiction has variously been recommended for a Nebula, a finalist for
the Spectrum, placed on the secondary Tiptree reading list and chosen
for two best-of anthologies; her art has appeared in RPGs, magazines
and on book covers.
