Author Name: Chris T. Kat
Book Name: Breeding Stations
Series: Alliances
Book: One
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Anne Cain
Release
Date: July 27, 2015
Blurb:
Spunky commander Berit Turner is known for two things: his huge libido and
his lack of a filter—he says what he thinks. Berit sets
his mind on being part of the mission to
Ligador, to make sure the planet is habitable for humans. He’s ecstatic when
his team is assigned to the task force. A delegation of Nadisc, a humanoid
alien race, accompanies them, and passion ignites between Berit and their
commanding officer, Tom. But Berit is determined that Tom is just another notch
on his bedpost, as he doesn’t do relationships.
The excursion to Ligador goes wrong
from the beginning, when they discover Ligador has been established as a
breeding station by their worst enemy: the Tash’Ba. Dinosaur-like creatures
become the team’s worst nightmare, and staying alive is going to take
everything they’ve got… and then some.
Pages or Words: 204 pages or about
65,000 words
Categories: M/M Romance, Science Fiction
Excerpt:
Excerpt from Chapter One:
After a five-minute
standoff with our Nadiscs, I rolled my eyes and squared off in front of them.
“Look, I know you have a rule about not giving your name out to anyone, so why
don’t we cut it short. You”—I pointed at the woman—”will be R1.”
She narrowed her
eyes at me, which I ignored, even though my hands began to perspire. I pointed
at the man standing on her left and said, “That’ll make you R2.” I leveled my
finger at the remaining one and added, “So you’ll be R3. We should all be able
to remember R1, and if we get it wrong when there’s an emergency, we’ll only
have to shout for R2 and R3 together and one of you will help us out.”
R2’s eyebrows
knitted together very closely, and in the background feet shuffled. Someone
cleared his throat. R3 came forward, one step at a time. I could’ve sworn the
floor vibrated with every move. All my instincts screamed at me to leg it, but
if I’d learned one lesson well, it was not to show fear. Not too much, anyway.
R3’s arm shot out
before I had a chance to see it coming. His large hand clasped around my neck
and all my hairs stood on end. I kept completely still, waiting for the blow to
come.
He gazed at me from
dark brown eyes, then lifted his other hand. The atmosphere around us
thickened, and my poor confused cock perked up with interest. The Nadisc laid a
hand against my cheek, left it there for a while, before he eventually pulled
it away.
He pointed at his
comrades. “Niyara.”
The Nadisc woman
inclined her head.
“This is Xevon. And
to make it easier for you and your people, you may call me Tom.”
“Tom?” I blurted.
“Don’t you have a fancy name like the others?” The grasp around my neck
tightened, and I hastened to add. “Short is cool, though. Really cool.”
“Thought so.”
Tom released my
neck, but didn’t step away. Slightly wary, I glanced up at him. He grinned at
me, showing a full line of well-tended white humanoid teeth, then beckoned to
Niyara and Xevon. They bridged the distances in two long strides and formed a
circle around me.
“Um, guys, what’s
going on?” I asked, mulling whether I could slip past them or not.
They intertwined
their hands and closed the circle around me. Someone—I think it was
Carson—muttered something fierce, and a moment later three large bodies crowded
me. I opened my mouth to tell them off, or maybe to ask them very politely to
back off a little—same difference, really—when an eerie shout resounded through
the hangar.
My eyes had to be
circular by the time they finished. You could’ve heard a pin drop, it was that
silent around us.
Niyara, Xevon, and
Tom took one step backward, and I breathed more freely. Niyara smashed her fist
against her chest, declaring, “We accept you as our leader on this mission.”
I gaped at her. The
Nadisc helped and supported humans, but accepting leadership from a human? They
very rarely did. Niyara smiled at me, a genuine smile that showed a prettiness
I hadn’t seen before, then she engulfed me in a rib-creaking embrace. I was
stumbling to find my footing once she’d set me down when Xevon lifted me off my
feet and hugged me too.
He and Niyara turned
around and advanced on my crew members, eliciting a few terrified squeaks. I
peered at Tom, who showed no inclination of moving.
“What? No hug from
you?” I asked.
He held out his
broad muscled arms for me, grinning. My mouth went dry and my damn cock pressed
heavily against the fabric of my pants. It had to be visible to everyone. For
the first time in many years, heat rose into my cheeks. Tom’s grin expanded
before he laughed. I stepped into his arms, bracing myself for another painful
embrace. Instead, I found myself leaning against a hard chest with equally hard
arms around me, fencing me in but without hurting me.
I mumbled into his
leather vest, “Do you by chance happen to like blond humans?”
“I do.”
I would’ve screamed
hallelujah if Baker’s voice over the loudspeaker hadn’t demanded we get going.
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About the
author:
Chris
T. Kat lives in the middle of Europe, where she shares a house with her husband
of many years and their two children. She stumbled upon the M/M genre by luck
and was swiftly drawn into it. She divides her time between work, her
family—which includes chasing after escaping horses and lugging around huge
instruments such as a harp—and writing. She enjoys a variety of genres, such as
mystery/suspense, paranormal, and romance. If there's any spare time, she
happily reads for hours, listens to audiobooks or does cross stitch.
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HI, Chris! Congrats on your release. I wasn't aware of this series, but now that I am, I'm looking forward to adding it to my library. Thanks for a chance in the giveaway.
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