Star Crash was the
winner of the 2006 Maryland Romance Writers' Reveal Your Inner Vixen contest.
Book One of The Star Chronicles
From the wreckage
of the past
rose a brighter hope
for Cora’s future.
When
her beloved Alex apparently died in a crash, Cora Daniels lost her
will to live. She became reckless driving her space vessel Freedom and
keeping up repairs as if she planned a suicide crash deep in her
subconscious.
When the Freedom finally fails, Cora, using all her skills, manages a
safe emergency landing on an unknown planet. Aliens capture her and
take her to a prison encampment where she meets other humanoid species
who are being forced into breeding by their guards who believe humans
are dumb beasts of burden. Cora vows to escape, but is stunned when
she sees Alex is one of the prisoners. He does not remember her or
anything before his captivity. However, she now has a reason to live
free as she plans to liberate her, Alex and the others.
Obviously reminiscent of Planet of the Apes, STAR CRASH is an
interesting romantic science fiction that is at its best when readers
obtain insight into the aliens and how they see humans as being
beneath them. However, when the plot turns to sexual encounters, it
decelerates as these trysts feel unnecessary. Still fans who
appreciate outer space encounters of the first kind will enjoy Elysa
Hendricks' entertaining look at comparative anthropology from ET's
perspective.
