Shaken and Stirred
By Viola Grace
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Tosha wanted a nice day off with her cousin, but a homicidal bug wave forces her to expose her talent to the others on her tour. Before her government can lock her up, she is swept off by a tornado and whisked into the stars. Joining the Sector Guard had never been an option, but now it was her only choice. Her name is changed to Shake and her first assignment is a doozy. With Vortex at her side, she accepts the emergency assignment and finds herself facing a proven killer who has no problem adding her to the roster.
Viola Grace
Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
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Shaken and Stirred - Viola Grace
Tosha wanted a nice day off with her cousin, but a homicidal bug wave forces her to expose her talent to the others on her tour. Before her government can lock her up, she is swept off by a tornado and whisked into the stars. Joining the Sector Guard had never been an option, but now it was her only choice. Her name is changed to Shake and her first assignment is a doozy. With Vortex at her side, she accepts the emergency assignment and finds herself facing a proven killer who has no problem adding her to the roster.
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Shaken and Stirred
Copyright © 2011 Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-55487-858-1
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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Shaken and Stirred
Sector Guard Book 19
By
Viola Grace
Chapter One
Tosha was breathing heavily as she tried to keep up with her cousin as they brought up the rear of the tour group.
Whose idea was this anyway?
She was fighting to keep a cheerful attitude while the instruments of a horrific death chased them across the plains.
Alara grinned and kept her speed up. I think I said we should do something different for a weekend.
Tosha leapt over a shrub and staggered as she landed. I think we could have just painted our hair green.
Alara barked a laugh. It’s already green.
See, huge timesaver.
Tosha could hear the insects chittering as they pursued the Dalpha Moon tour group. It had been a good idea to tour the moon in the offseason, but there was a reason that most tourists didn’t go into the open wastes. Once a year, for one day, flesh-eating beetles hatched. Today was that day.
A light whirring noise was approaching from above. Tosha kept running, no time for watching to see if the beetles had learned to fly.
A cliff face was looming in front of her, the rest of their tour group were milling against it like stunned sheep.
Tosha stopped and let her cousin run past her. She turned and faced the field of writhing beetle bodies. They were closing in, less than three hundred meters between them and her. The whirring noise sounded again and Tosha watched a tornado touch down and violently throw the bugs in another direction.
It was good but not good enough. Tosha concentrated and the ground beneath her feet started to shake. A fissure opened in the ground at her feet and ran the width of the field. It widened to a space two meters wide and she sighed in relief.
The bugs that got past the whirlwind ran until they hit the fissure and then they tipped into oblivion.
Alara’s hand on her shoulder made her whirl in shock. Oh, Tosha. I am so sorry.
Tosha patted her cousin’s hand. It’s all right. It was time that someone knew. I am sure that life in the labs won’t be so bad.
Maybe the tour group won’t report you.
Alara’s hope was touching.
Tosha looked to the crowd of folks who were watching her with a combination of relief and horror. Talents were welcome on Dalpha, but only if they gave themselves over to the government for experimentation. With this many witnesses, Tosha was only going to have one destiny ahead of her. Life in the lab. Her hidden talent for shifting a planet’s crust was now out in the open.
The whirring windstorm lifted off and did the most peculiar thing. It pressed against the wall of the cliff and began to throw dirt and debris from inside the cliff face outward. It was making them a pathway.
With the beetles finally turning around to raid their normal food sources, having lost half