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Pet Trade by Carol Van Natta

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Also by Carol Van Natta:

Heart of a Dire Wolf, August 2018
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Pet Trade, April 2018
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Minder Rising, June 2015
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Overload Flux, October 2014
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PET TRADE
By: Carol Van Natta

Central Galactic Concordance Novella
Author Self-Published
April 2018
On Sale: March 20, 2018
Featuring: Axur Tragon; Bethnee Bakonin
121 pages
ISBN: 1946165069
EAN: 2940159136459
Kindle: B07B6D3JV9
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Science Fiction Romance

An injured veterinarian and a cyborg with unusual pets must join forces to save their town. The vast Central Galactic Concordance strictly prohibits genetic experimentation and alteration of humans on any of its 500 member planets. Animals aren’t so lucky.

On a frontier planet, veterinarian Bethnee Bakonin made a home for herself in the frozen north. Her minder talent for healing all kinds of animals would ordinarily assure her success, but her unwilling stint in the shady pet trade industry left her damaged and scared. She works around her limitations as best she can, and rescues pet trade castoffs.

β€œVolunteered” for a black-box research project, elite forces Jumper Axur Tragon now has dangerous experimental tech in his cybernetic limbs. He escaped and crash-landed a stolen freighter in the northern mountains of a frontier planet, only to discover a secret shipment of designer pets was part of the cargo. Determined to do right by them, he enlists reluctant Bethnee’s aid in caring for themβ€”a definite challenge, considering Bethnee is terrified of him.

When greedy mercenaries come raiding, can Axur and Bethnee work together to overcome their limitations, with help from their unusual pets, and save the day?

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Central Galactic Concordance

Pet Trade
PET TRADE
#0.0 β€’ April 2018
Overload Flux
OVERLOAD FLUX
#1.0 β€’ October 2014
Minder Rising
MINDER RISING
#2.0 β€’ June 2015

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