Operation Escape (Space Force Rejects) by Landra Graf – Review by Roxsanne Lesieur.

Operation Escape by Landra Graf
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sera Kain is a young woman who works for the Space Force in an administrative position and she retains knowledge and facts like others do faces and names, but when she finds out that her uncle is missing, she is determined to use all of the knowledge available at her fingertips to find him. Markus Engle is trying to leave his life in the Space Force behind him and was doing very well doing just that on Kafgar, the planet where pleasure is the first port of call, however, when Sera walks into his office and disturbs his afternoon, something which he hoped would never happen does.

Sera has no idea what she has just walked into, apart from that she is interrupting something, so as soon as she knows that she has found the pilot she needs, she leaves until a more convenient time to propose a mission to which he is the key, but Markus has a problem, thanks to some past genetic engineering, he finds that he can’t refuse Sera anything, but he intends to keep the reason why to himself. As Sera outlines her plans and makes sure that it is clear to Markus that he is going to be flying them to the prison planet of Earth, once the heart of the human empire so that she can rescue two inmates who will lead her to her uncle.

As they approach the planet, things start to go awry, but it isn’t until they land, are ambushed and their ship stolen that Sera realises that she may have bitten off more than she can chew and her lack of experience is showing, but she is still determined to find a way off the planet and to her uncle. Along with finding a way off of the planet, Markus and Sera will have to find a way to avoid the rest of the inmates living there, so she attempts to create alliances with some of the humanoid creatures there, but she is also trying to fight the attraction she feels towards Markus, it turns out that he is doing the same. Will these two fated mates be able to embrace their attraction to each other, leave Earth and find Sera’s uncle, or will the inmates, or wildlife get to them first? In this fast paced sci-fi romance, danger lies around every turn and not just the physical kind as this unlikely pair face adversity in order to discover their strengths in this enticing story.

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