NEW RELEASE: The Reptiles' Blade (4th Edition)

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An illicit auction, a retired military operative, and a shape-shifting diplomat from behind enemy lines. Peace is at stake, and the future of mankind rests on Captain Felicity Shannara Jones’s shoulders. Will she return the lizardine’s ancestral blade? Or will she keep it as the valuable artifact it is? And can she remember where she hid it?

The Reptile's Blade is the last release for January 2025. It explores the politics of greed and acquisition in a far-flung human future, and the consequences of both. In particular, it is about Captain Felicity Shannara Jones, a liaison and operative for Earth High Council, and the past that saw her retired from active duty, and which haunts her still.

You can find The Reptiles' Blade as a stand-alone short story at a number of locations listed at this Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/4APAZN

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You can find it as part of A Collection of Shifters, a collection of short fiction and poetry themed around shapeshifters in a multitude of forms, which can be found at locations listed at the following Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/3JoJNX.

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You can access it as part of the Wanderers and above subscription tier on my ReamStories page, here: https://reamstories.com/cmsimpsonwriter.

 

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