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    Collision Course: In Love and War, #6
    Collision Course: In Love and War, #6
    Collision Course: In Love and War, #6
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    Collision Course: In Love and War, #6

    By Cora Buhlert

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    Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together.

    Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living as mercenaries on Metra Litko, an independent world on the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them.

    Anjali and Mikhail are working a routine bodyguard job. But things quickly go awry, when an assassin bypasses all security measures to shoot the wrong target… or does he?

    Anjali and Mikhail set off in pursuit, only to find themselves confronted with a figure from Mikhail's past who could threaten their newfound freedom.

    This is a novelette of 8000 words or approximately 27 print pages in the In Love and War series, but may be read as a standalone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Pulp Publishing
    Release dateAug 29, 2018
    ISBN9781386710776
    Collision Course: In Love and War, #6
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    Cora Buhlert

    Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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      Book preview

      Collision Course - Cora Buhlert

      In Love and War

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      For eighty-eight years, the galaxy has been torn apart by the endless war between the Republic of United Planets and the Empire of Worlds.

      Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov are soldiers on opposing sides of that war. They meet, fall in love and decide to go on the run together.

      Pursued by both the Empire and the Republic, they struggle to stay alive and free and prove that their love is stronger than the war…

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      I. Rooftop

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      At a crossroads in the capital of the independent rim world of Metra Litko stood a building of slate grey granite, topped by letters of bright red neon twice the height of a regular human. This was the Ostrowsky Hotel, one of the oldest buildings on the planet and coincidentally, also one of its most famous.

      If someone had chanced to look up at the roof of the Ostrowsky Hotel, they might have noticed two figures, outlined in stark black against the red neon letters spelling out the hotel’s name.

      If one of the security drones patrolling the city had chanced to zoom in for a closer look, it might have noticed that the two figures on the roof of the Ostrowsky Hotel were a man and a woman, both in their mid-twenties.

      The man was tall, with pale skin, striking blue eyes and long dark hair pulled into a ponytail at the nape of his neck. He wearing light battle armour, of high quality, but without insignia. In his arms, he cradled a Republican made precision rifle. This was Captain Mikhail Alexeievich Grikov, formerly of the Republican Special Commando Forces, now wanted as a traitor and deserter.

      The woman by his side was a good head shorter, with brown skin, dark eyes and glossy black hair she wore tied into a neat braid. Instead of armour, she was wearing plain black utility clothes. She was in the process of assembling a sniper rifle, an Imperial made Marcasona Mark IV. This was Lieutenant Anjali Patel, formerly of the Imperial Shakyri Expeditionary Forces, now wanted as a traitor and deserter.

      Anjali and Mikhail had met during a mission and fallen in love against all odds. When the time came where they would be forced to hand the other over to certain death at the hands of their respective regimes, they both found that they could not do it. And so they had decided to leave their lives and careers behind and run away together. They’d headed for Metra Litko and the independent worlds on the galactic rim to offer their specific skills to the highest bidder.

      All that had happened two months ago. And because Metra Litko was a hub of legal and illegal trade, they’d never had a problem finding work as mercenaries or freelance security specialists, as Anjali tended to put it, since she did not like the m-word.

      It was this work that had brought them to the roof of the Ostrowsky Hotel today, for they had been hired as security detail for one Arkady Grigorian, a local politician and Merchants’ Council hopeful. Grigorian had been receiving threats and was supposed to appear at a charity gala at the Ostrowsky Hotel tonight.

      Since Grigorian was wealthy — you had to be

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