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Author Archives: Michelle Diener
DARK CLASS coming soon!
I’m very excited to announce that Dark Class, the fifth book in my Class 5 series, is due for a 26th April, 2022 release. It will be available in ebook, paperback, and at a later date, audio.
About DARK CLASS:
Waking up alone . . . Ellie Masters comes out of a coma to find herself the only inhabitant of an eerily empty moon station. She’s not on Earth any more, she’s not even in the right solar system. So when someone reaches out to her, tells her he’s her friend, she’s happy to believe it. The alternative is to be stuck alone with an enemy.
The hunt of his career . . . Grih Battle Center captain, Renn Sorvihn, has been chasing a rogue Tecran ship for over a month, convinced its captain is simply trying to delay his inevitable surrender and punishment. But when Renn follows the Tecran ship into an uncharted sector, and realises the Tecran have been working their way to a secret moon base for weeks, he suddenly understands things are most definitely not as they seem.
Caught in the crossfire . . . When the Tecran arrive, with the Grih hot on their heels, Ellie finds herself the catalyst for heightened danger to everyone. The Tecran see her as evidence of their military’s crimes, the Grih see her as a massive diplomatic complication, and her presence brings the whole confrontation up several thousand notches.
But Ellie isn’t alone, and her new friend has ways to help her. Time to outclass them all . . .
High Flyer wins the RUBY for Best Speculative Fiction 2021
I am so honoured and thrilled that High Flyer won the RUBY Award, given out by Romance Writers of Australia, for Best Speculative Fiction of 2021. High Flyer is part of my Verdant String series, where each book is a standalone, but set in the same world, with some continuity between the books.
Mistress of the Wind: Free until Oct 23 2021
Those of you who love fantasy romance and fairy tale retellings will be thrilled to hear that Mistress of the Wind, my fantasy romance retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, is free on Amazon until October 23rd.
The Turncoat King: Audiobook coming soon
Wave Rider is Out Now!
Very happy to announce that Wave Rider, the fifth book in my Verdant String series, is now available in print and ebook format.
About Wave Rider:
Isolated . . . Verdant String scientist, Anja Farucci, is frightened. Her calls for help from her remote coastal research station on the moon Fynian have been going unanswered, and strange things are happening with the leviathan pod she’s studying. Out of options, she sets out on the dangerous three-day journey to Rinc, Fynian’s only city.
Stranded . . . Cal is a wave rider, and if anyone understands leviathans, it’s him, but when Kada, a young leviathan, grabs his boat and strands him on the southern peninsula, Cal is at a loss to understand what is going on.
Thrown together . . . When Cal and Anja cross paths, they discover Anja’s communications have been deliberately sabotaged. Someone doesn’t want anyone coming or going from the southern peninsula. When the people involved start hurting leviathans, though, neither Cal nor Anja can let it go.
What they don’t know, as they get deeper and deeper into the mystery, is that the secret they discover in the cold waters of Fynian’s ocean will change them forever.
And the giveaway winners are . . .
Congratulations to the two randomly-drawn winners of my birthday giveaway 🙂
Sky Raiders Free: 8 – 12 September
I’ve had new covers designed for my SKY RAIDERS series, and to celebrate, I’ve made Sky Raiders free from today until September 12th. To get your copy on Amazon, you can click here.
Breakaway is available!
So excited to have the first book in my Verdant String series out. This book was so much fun to write. I hope my readers love it as much as I do 🙂
About Breakaway:
Sofie lives in the shadow of Felicitos–the tethered way station built to funnel Garmen’s mineral wealth up to the top of the atmosphere, where it’s loaded onto space ships. Because Garmen is a breakaway planet, not part of the Verdant String Coalition, the companies that control it are free to run things as they see fit, and Sofie is part of the resistance that wants to end their rule.
Her main goal, though, is to get away from Garmen altogether, and leave the drudgery and violence behind her. That goal is complicated by her involvement with Leo Gaudier, a shadowy crime lord whose ability to cheat the companies that own Garmen is something she admires. And when she stumbles on a terrible new direction the companies are taking, a secret alliance that will endanger everyone she cares about, she sees her chances of escape slipping away.
Leo is all too aware he doesn’t know enough about Sofie, something his own security detail is not slow to point out, but he can’t keep away. When Sofie reveals her links to the resistance, and shows him those in control of Garmen have begun swimming in dangerous waters, he realizes his plan to overthrown them in a careful operation of a thousand cuts is no longer workable.
The time has come for a single, lethal strike–and that will not be without consequences . . .
The Verdant String Series
BREAKAWAY is the first full length novel in the Verdant String series. The two novellas which precede it can be bought together in the Interference & Insurgency Box Set.
The planets of the Verdant String, the green, fecund sources of life spanning five solar systems, comprise the Verdant String Coalition. This is the setting for a new science fiction romance series from award-winning science fiction romance novelist Michelle Diener. While the people of the Verdant String know they have a common ancestor, a group of explorers who colonised the planets at the same time a thousand or more years ago, the mysteries of who they were, and where they came from, persist.