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He must not succumb to the weakness of hope #Excerpt Forged in Fire by Kayelle Allen #SciFi #MFRWhooks

Kayelle Allen 10/25/2023 Fallen Empires 3 Comments

In this scene, Pietas, Six, and their other companions have been following Joss back to camp. But it's been forever and they are no closer. She is legendary for her ability to get lost, so why she is leading them, Pietas can't imagine.

Surety

"Joss, you've been saying 'not far' for hours. Did I not teach you to mark trails?"

"I'm sorry, Pietas. It won't happen again."

Oh, but it would. She wouldn't mean for it to happen, but it would. He'd tried for centuries to teach her how to find her way, to no avail. He kissed her cheek and drew her into his arms, savoring her warmth.

"Joss." He placed his mouth near her ear. "You couldn't find your way out of a round room with one door."

She jerked up her head and looked at him, eyes wide.

"And I adore you for it."

Smiling, she took his hand. "Let's keep going."

The next rise led to a shallow valley with a gentle, sloping path leading to round-topped trees. Joss had gone ahead, scouting the way.

Six sighed. "I don't see civilization."

"Joss!" Pietas called, causing her to turn back and look at him. "Six wants to know if we're there yet." He smirked at his friend, who rolled his eyes.

"Almost." She motioned. "Keep going."

"Pi, I told you. She's trying to find a familiar landmark."

"Does seem that way."

"Don't you Ultras ever stop and ask for directions?"

"There's no one else on the planet. Ask of whom, ghost?"

Six spread his hands. "Just saying."

Joss turned and started back toward them. "It was further than I remembered, but I found it! We're minutes from the entrance."

A flare of hope quickened his heart. Pietas squelched it at once. Emotion did not color his decisions. A king acted with surety, not hope. Hope turned to disappointment. Disappointment turned to anger. Anger turned to rage. Rage removed control. He must not succumb to the weakness of hope.

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~ Copyright ©2025 Kayelle Allen. All rights reserved ~ Kayelle Allen participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates program, an affiliate advertising program which provides the means for sites to earn fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com. If you purchase an item listed on the site from Amazon.com, Kayelle will earn a small commission. Other sites might be affiliate links as well. These will not result in higher prices for you. Thank you for your support!

My characters may be found in multiple books in my story universe. Pietas images Nik Nitsvetov as Pietas cosplay.

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Search the unfamiliar landscape of magic: Read Spark by Krysta Maravilla #Magic #DarkFantasy

Kayelle Allen 10/21/2023 Science Fiction Romance

Spark by Krysta Maravilla

From shadows she is reborn

Phe lives a dual life.

Everyone knows Phe as the sickly best friend of Her Grace, Kyra Theonora, the last Water Nymph duty bound by a familial oath to protect the island country of Xafara. Only a select group of people are aware of Phe's shadow side. Trained by General Bastion to be an assassin and Kyra's secret weapon.

Everything changes when Kyra is abducted, exposing Phe's cover and acting as a catalyst to Phe's own bound magic, thrusting Phe into a world she'd thought a fantasy.

As Phe maneuvers the unfamiliar landscape of magic, grappling with one obstacle after another, she tries to figure out how to save her best friend. Will she survive this new magical world? Will she rescue Kyra? Will she sacrifice herself in the process?

Spark is the first book in a new adult fantasy series featuring action packed scenes, compelling characters, and a strong heroine.

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#Excerpt from Human Perfect “I embrace chaos” #Cyberpunk #SciFi #MFRWhooks

Kayelle Allen 10/18/2023 Cyberpunk 10 Comments

In Human Perfect, the line, "I embrace chaos" is central to the entire story.

I embrace chaos

In this scene from Human Perfect, the heroine is dining with Tom, who works for an android company. She's beginning to suspect he is an android...

He picked up a bottle of red sauce, squinted at the label, and put it down, then picked up a green bottle. Tom set that down, slid the red bottle into the green bottle's place--and then switched them back. After a moment, he lined up all the condiment bottles, peered at them, and then began reordering them.

"Tom, what are you doing?"

"Sorry." He yanked his hands back and put them on his lap. "Bad habit. I was trying to decide it I should line them up by color or size, or if the name of the product should be--" He shook his head. "Never mind. Order is a flaw, but I will overcome it."

Raising one eyebrow, Christa took in the neat row of bottles. "Order is a flaw?"

"Perfection is godlike. No real person is perfect. No real person is a slave to order. I embrace chaos."

Christa despises androids.

The texture of plastiflesh skin jars her senses. The non-smell of animate machines makes her skin crawl.

Don't even get her started on robots, or worse -- andys that look human. Her job as a corporate spy for the android maker Innersoul puts her in touch with the creatures every day, but also requires her to judge them.

When Christa runs into Humancopy Progress Rep, she can't believe her luck. Using a cover identity, Christa wines and dines him. What truths will she uncover?

Or worse, what truths will she reveal...

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Story: When the truth isn’t reality #SciFi #PietasFans #MFRWhooks

Kayelle Allen 10/11/2023 Character Insights 2 Comments

You know that feeling when you think you know the whole story? You know the truth? So you make a decision and you run with it. When you careen into a wall you didn't see, you pick yourself up and take a second look at where you're headed. Or, if you're stubborn like me, you back up and run at it again. POW! Down you go one more time.

When I began writing my Tarthian Empire series books I knew who the villain was. His name was Pietas and his story was obvious. He was irredeemable, bad through and through. End of story.

About five books in, I hit a wall.

I couldn't make sense of this villain of mine. Pietas was clearly the bad guy, yet while his people feared him--with good reason--they were loyal to the death. He hated humans with such great passion that he wanted to destroy them all, yet he was taking his sweet time going about it. He could have wiped out humanity a thousand years ago.

He hadn't. Why not?

Secrets Behind the Story

I sensed a conspiracy. My characters were keeping a truth from me. How could I write a proper story if I didn't know what was going on?

After flipping through copious notes and rereading my own books, I realized I had a ton of material on Pietas. I began writing down impressions, verifying them against the canon of the books and making sure I had the real story.

The Story Iceberg

Pietas had revealed only ten percent of the story. Like an iceberg, only a small part of a story is visible. The rest comprises its true reality.

I needed to learn more.

It took me months of digging, talking with readers, talking with my beta readers and editors, inundating my critique group with multiple versions of the story's first chapters, but finally I figured out the true story.

My villain wasn't a villain.

I literally sat back in my chair and slapped my forehead. How could I have been so blind? I had allowed his actions to become my interpretation of the truth. In the story world, Pietas was playing a part. Making himself out to be the bad guy, while in reality, he was far from it.

Oh, I can hear you thinking. "You wrote the guy, Kayelle. How can he be any kind of mystery?" Well, that's because you just don't know him yet. Read one of the books about him and you'll see. He is not easy to know, but he's fascinating once you do.

After I wrote the first book about his real story, Origin of Pietas: Bringer of Chaos, a reviewer said: "He's painted as a complete psycho in other books. It's really great to get some insight into who he truly is." I had a jump-up-and-down happy-shouting fit when I read that.

I had succeeded in revealing the truth. That was what I had wanted more than anything.

As soon as I finished the first book, I jumped in on the second.

Model for Pietas: Nik Nitsvetov

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From shadows she is reborn: Read Spark #PNR by Krysta Maravilla #DarkFantasy

Kayelle Allen 10/07/2023 Science Fiction Romance

Spark by Krysta Maravilla

From shadows she is reborn

Phe lives a dual life.

Everyone knows Phe as the sickly best friend of Her Grace, Kyra Theonora, the last Water Nymph duty bound by a familial oath to protect the island country of Xafara. Only a select group of people are aware of Phe's shadow side. Trained by General Bastion to be an assassin and Kyra's secret weapon.

Everything changes when Kyra is abducted, exposing Phe's cover and acting as a catalyst to Phe's own bound magic, thrusting Phe into a world she'd thought a fantasy.

As Phe maneuvers the unfamiliar landscape of magic, grappling with one obstacle after another, she tries to figure out how to save her best friend. Will she survive this new magical world? Will she rescue Kyra? Will she sacrifice herself in the process?

Spark is the first book in a new adult fantasy series featuring action packed scenes, compelling characters, and a strong heroine.

Available on Amazon

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Against All Odds: A Military Sci-Fi Series by Jeffery H Haskell #MilSF #SciFi #Military

Kayelle Allen 10/02/2023 Science Fiction Books

Against All Odds

The wrong crew. The wrong ship. The right Captain.

Idealistic navy lieutenant Jacob Grimm just wanted to honor his mother's sacrifice in the last great war. When he's forced to return fire and destroy a squadron of ships to save his own, he thinks he's the hero…

Until they discover the ships are full of children.

Disgraced and denied promotion, Jacob's career is over. That is until the head of ONI needs a disposable officer to command a battered destroyer on the rim.

There's just one problem, Interceptor hasn't had a CO in months and the ship is a mess. Worse, the system he's assigned to is corrupt and on the verge of all-out civil war with the Alliance.

However, no one told Jacob he was disposable.

Pirates, smugglers, and Caliphate spies complicate the situation and one captain with an old ship can't enforce the law, let alone stop anyone.

The single greatest discovery of all time is about to change intergalactic politics forever. If Jacob doesn't find a way to succeed, then it won't just be the end of the Alliance, it will be the end of freedom for humanity.

From USA Today bestselling author Jeffery H. Haskell comes a military science fiction epic in the tradition of Honor Harrington and Star Trek. If you love heroes and starships, you will love to stand with Commander Jacob T. Grimm Against all Odds. You're in the Navy now!

"Against All Odds is classic space fleet military science fiction in the tradition of David Weber, with memorable characters and thrilling action. Haskell is a new shining star in the genre." --Rick Partlow, author of Contact Front

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Pietas gains unwelcome attention from a telepath #SciFi #PietasFans

Kayelle Allen 10/01/2023 Fallen Empires 5 Comments

In this scene from Forged in Fire, Pietas and the search party sent to find him have stopped their upward mountain trek for a short break. Prior to their reunion the previous day, Pietas had spent a year in confinement, hands bound behind him. He'd been starved to the point of death, but because he's immortal, he could not die. Although he's healed since, the brutality left a lasting toll on his once robust physical body. As they prepare to get underway, he unwittingly reveals the impairment and becomes the focus of unwanted attention from a telepath.

Unwanted Attention

Wincing, Pietas stretched to ease cramps in his back.

"Tas!" His sister had started using her childhood name for him since they'd reconnected the day before. "Are you hurt?"

Before he could answer Dessy, a quick telepathic scan from Joss swept over him. Pietas had still been a teenager when she'd trained him to shield his mind from those with her gift. Not that he'd ever been able to block her. She was far too powerful, but today, she'd read him with no more difficulty than a hunter spying trail signs. He'd been near no Ultra telepaths for over a year.

His affinity with Six had made him careless and he'd neglected the basic lessons Joss had taught him.

It wasn't a lack of trust. Trust had never been an issue with Joss.

He treasured her, but he ought not to have been so unguarded and open. Vulnerable.

"Pietas." Joss stood. The waves of emotion he picked up from her held love and concern in equal measure. And a bit of disappointment. "You're injured."

He ducked his head like a schoolboy who'd forgotten his lessons. Admit mortals had damaged him? Never. Neither would he lie about it. He'd take better care to hide the pain.

"Don't worry about me." Whistling, he circled a finger in the air. "Let's go! Long climb ahead. Joss, you lead." Last thing he wanted was her behind him, using him as an object of focus. He loved her, but this was unwanted attention.

What telepaths focused upon, they controlled.

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Kayelle Allen 09/23/2023 Fallen Empires

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Cameron Cooper has a brand new far future #SciFi A Place for Everyone, and he’s offering a discount #SpaceOpera

Kayelle Allen 09/08/2023 Science Fiction Books

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A Place for Everyone is a science fiction short story by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.

Other standalone fiction by Cameron Cooper:

And We Danced All Night

A Place for Everyone

A Room of Her Own

Resilience

Space Opera Firsts

Epic Science Fiction at its finest. Realistic far future worlds. Incredible characters and scenarios. From the author of the Imperial Hammer series.

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He must not succumb to the weakness of hope #Excerpt Forged in Fire by Kayelle Allen #SciFi #MFRWhooks

Surety

Bringer of Chaos

Welcome to Book Hooks!

Search the unfamiliar landscape of magic: Read Spark by Krysta Maravilla #Magic #DarkFantasy

Spark by Krysta Maravilla

#Excerpt from Human Perfect “I embrace chaos” #Cyberpunk #SciFi #MFRWhooks

I embrace chaos

Terran Crescent

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Story: When the truth isn’t reality #SciFi #PietasFans #MFRWhooks

Secrets Behind the Story

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Bringer of Chaos

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From shadows she is reborn: Read Spark #PNR by Krysta Maravilla #DarkFantasy

Spark by Krysta Maravilla

Against All Odds: A Military Sci-Fi Series by Jeffery H Haskell #MilSF #SciFi #Military

Against All Odds

Pietas gains unwelcome attention from a telepath #SciFi #PietasFans

Unwanted Attention

Bringer of Chaos

Origin
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Forged
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Bringer of Chaos
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Lights
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Surety

Bringer of Chaos

Welcome to Book Hooks!

Spark by Krysta Maravilla

I embrace chaos

Terran Crescent

Welcome to Book Hooks!

Secrets Behind the Story

The Story Iceberg

Bringer of Chaos

Bringer of Chaos Bundle 1

Welcome to Book Hooks!

Spark by Krysta Maravilla

Against All Odds

Unwanted Attention

Bringer of Chaos

Bringer of Chaos Bundle 1

Bringer of Chaos
Bundle 1

Bringer of Chaos
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