Smashwords Read-an-Ebook Week Sale is Now On!

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 From March 7, 2021 through March 13, 2021, Smashwords is holding it's annual Read an E-Book Week.

You can find more information on the Read an E-Book Week Facebook page HERE: https://www.facebook.com/Read-an-E-Book-Week-193882590629749/.

Both Mack 'n' Me: Origins and Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Omnibus #1 are available at a huge 75% off from the Smashwords site, for this time.

 

I ran away from home to find a better life—not be forced into one. You can call me picky, but a girl likes to be asked if she wants to work for you, not coerced—and Odyssey should know better. Now, I have to find a way to kick free—of Odyssey, and my trainer, Mack—without getting myself killed. Surviving the mission is just the first step. Getting out from under, that’s gonna take some doing.

NOTE: The main character swears like a sailor, and the support cast aren’t much better. If swears bother you, then this story may not be to your taste.





Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Omnibus #1

From runaway to space adventurer and retrieval specialist, Jocelyn Cutter has come a long way. This omnibus collects the first three books of the Mack ‘n’ Me ‘n’ Odyssey series chronicling her journey. Taken from the human traffickers aboard the ‘Lockyer’s Transport’, Cutter finds herself an unwilling conscript for Odyssey, an unaffiliated para-military organization dedicated to protecting the spaceways and all points in between. Kicking free of them takes her onto the ‘Shady Marie’ and its not-so-merry band of mercenaries. Now she has to discover if she’s really leapt from the frying pan to the fire, or if life aboard the Shady is going to be better than she dares to hope. Join her as she finds out exactly that.

 

NOTE: The main character swears like a sailor, and the support cast aren’t much better. If swears bother you, then this story may not be to your taste.
 
 
 


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