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A prequel to 'Pull' set in the world of Deep Darkness. 

Humanity had just colonized the solar system. For years tensions ran high as we engaged in a secret war in the wake of an alien invasion. We thought we had pushed our invaders away. We thought we had won the war. When they came back everything was lost.

Elyse, a former soldier turned mercenary originally from Earth is just beginning to put her life back together when she takes a bodyguard job for a man named Slen. The job sounds like it is her golden ticket, sleep for the duration of a deep space voyage, protect Slen when he they arrive at their destination, return home and live happily ever after. With no home or family of her own she accepts the assignment and joins the crew of the Erebus. Everything seems to be going according to plan until her and many of the other passengers begin to wake up.

When she is captured by a war criminal and his group of terrorists they place a collar around her neck and give her two choices - - help them take control of the ship or die. 

Elyse's journey will take her from the dark corridors of the Erebus to the start of a new colony called Shear as she struggles to survive against terrorists, aliens, and her own violent past.All Rights Reserved

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[Book 1 of the ARC10 Trilogy] Winner of the 2017 Watty Storysmith award The President created an underground safe-haven for the survivors of the alien invasion. He built it to save them all from total annihilation. He protects them, feeds them, keeps them under his ever-watchful gaze so they can live. All he asks is that they obey. Captain Janika Lorn doesn't want to obey. Not if it means spreading her legs and contributing to the President's precious eugenics program. As a perfect candidate for the Human Hope Project, she is obligated by law to make more citizens for the dying society. But all she wants is her freedom to fight the Invaders and protect the people who already exist. If the mandated program wasn't bad enough, the worst part is trying to fulfill it with Captain Dean Freyer, her scientifically matched partner and best friend of sixteen years. Just as Captain Lorn is about to succumb to her fate, another opportunity arises. A mysterious commanding officer asks her to lead a human refugee ship--to save humanity by evacuating the destroyed Earth and shuttling the remaining population to a new habitable exoplanet 400 light years away. The mission is perilous. Especially because now, standing between her and her freedom is the hostile alien hosts of her ship, the ARC10, a sister returned from the dead, an array of impossibly confusing alien tech, a rekindled heat between her and Dean, and a sexy militia chief she can't seem to keep her hands off of. ARC10 is a romance-heavy sci-fi with the speculative horror of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the military action of Battle: Los Angeles. Cover art by @FayLane Copyright © 2016 by LL Montez