Space Colony Journals
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Options of Survival
by Gail Daley
Part 1 of the Space Colony Journals series
"The Will To Survive Is Mankind's Greatest Weapon"
"They lived through an interplanetary war, now they must survive the aftermath."
In the last interplanetary war, a bioweapon killed or sterilized all the males on Vensoog. To keep the colony alive, the Matchmaker Program finds ex-soldiers like Zack Jackson, a hard-as-nails ex-recon warrior who no longer has a home planet and offer him a new home on Vensoog if he is willing to marry a Vensoog woman. With his home world now pile of radioactive ash, Zack desperately needs a new home for himself and his kids, so he accepts the offer.
When the Matchmaker Program pairs him with Katherine, the heir to Veiled Isle, code cracker and one tough lady, they both wonder if this is a match made in Heaven or Hell? They need to find out quick, because their kids stole a valuable data cube from the ruthless Thieves Guild, and they want it back! And they are willing to kill anyone who gets in their way. Plus, Katherine is falling in love with her new husband and she hasn't a clue if he feels the same about her...
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Destiny Rising
by Gail Daley
Part 2 of the Space Colony Journals series
What happens to soldiers when the war ends? If their planet was a casualty, where do they go? A marriage of convenience between two determined, strong willed people sparks a planetary war and puts at risk everyone they love.
Laird Genevieve O'Teague, beautiful, and strong-willed became leader of her people at seventeen. Colonel Gideon Michaels had been a soldier who controlled thousands of fighters in the war. When it was over he needed a new home for his orphan niece and his adopted son. Genevieve's offer would provide both, but could he follow his heart and learn to trust and love his new wife? Vensoog is under attack by pirates and when Genevieve and his niece are kidnapped by an agent of the Thieves Guild, Genevieve and Gideon must learn to rely on each other and their newfound love to defeat their enemies. Welcome to the far future.
The Space Colony Journals are an epic tale of a family's struggle to survive. Meet the courageous women and dangerous men who carve a home on the Alien World of Vensoog
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Tomorrow's Legacy
by Gail Daley
Part 3 of the Space Colony Journals series
A warrior/priestess joins a bard from another world and five genetically designed children to save their planet from a hostile takeover.
Drusilla: A Dragon Talker, born of a line of powerful, psychically gifted women, she has been trained to command the beasts of Vensoog.
Lucas: An off-world survivor of an interplanetary war, he is the untrained hereditary Bard of his people with the ability to compel with his voice.
Juliette: super smart, ruthless, wily and conniving-the perfect spy whose creators never realized they gave her a loving heart.
Lucinda: given genius level IQ whose enhanced creativity genes made her the perfect icy planner. But those same genes sparked a need for order and balance at odds with the goals of her masters.
Violet: a powerful empath whose alliance with the Vensoog Sand Dragon Jelli gave her the courage to defy her masters.
Rupert and Roderick: the intuitive chemist and the genius code cracker turned out to be a lot tougher than their masters anticipated.
Only by working together can they stop the ruthless Thieves Guild from enslaving their planet.
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The Interstellar Jewel Heist
by Gail Daley
Part 4 of the Space Colony Journals series
When she finds the body of a retired shopkeeper on the beach, a series of mysterious events draws Lady Jayla into a web of passion, terror, and murder;
If she wants to stay alive, she must figure out who the killer is before she becomes the next target.
She needs to find a way to stop the interplanetary jewel thieves who keep breaking into her shop looking for their missing loot. While dealing with this crisis, she faces a slew of other problems: When she bought her shop, she inherited one dysfunctional house-bot who thinks he's a sex-bot and a sales bot who cleans her front window display naked. Then there is her nosy boyfriend Jake and her overprotective family…
To make matters worse, the local and interplanetary detectives investigating the theft and murder think either she stole the jewels, or she makes excellent bait for the real thieves. Take your pick.
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The Designer People
by Gail Daley
Part 5 of the Space Colony Journals series
Lucinda worked hard to earn a place among Vensoog's law enforcement community.
On her first assignment, compassion impels her to protect an alien mother and daughter fleeing off-planet bounty hunters. To ensure their safety, she must defeat a deadly Soturi warrior in hand-to-hand combat. Can she do it?
Then she rescues a 'designer child' who is a younger double for herself from a sex trafficking ring. Can she solve this case and rescue the other children trapped by those same criminals? To do so she needs to catch a vicious Thieves Guild assassin.
But even with the help of the best private eye on Vensoog, these are tough cases for a rookie cop.
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Alien Trails
by Gail Daley
Part 6 of the Space Colony Journals series
Juliette receives an assignment from the Parliamentary Council that both excites and intrigues her. She and her companions are to learn about the Elder races and their colonization of the stars.
Accompanied by a diverse group of explorers Juliette soon realizes that there are many dangers on the unknown continent of Kitzingen. When the exploration team is confronted by refuges from a crashed life boat, she quickly spots that one of the three has a Thieves Guild tattoo and is not to be trusted.
But the dangers on the expedition are nothing compared to what awaits Juliette when she is reunited with her family. Her old enemy, the brutal and callous Van Doyle, intends to kidnap her family.
He has placed is a bounty on the heads of Lady Katherine's children. It is one his men intend to collect even if they kill to do it. Does Juliette have the courage and skill to foil his plans and save her siblings from him? Or will they disappear, never to be seen again?
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Quantum Light
by Gail Daley
Part 7 of the Space Colony Journals series
A family of innocent botanists finds themselves thrust into the middle of a drug war on an alien planet.
Rupert and Aire have come to Trellya to negotiate the purchase of plants Rupert uses in the medicines and cosmetics his company makes. The dactyl Pelcon is with them because he goes everywhere Rupert goes. Sesuna came with them to find out what is happening on her family's estates. Teenage Selick came to see Trellya and meet the birth mother who sold her to the Thieves Guild as an infant.
To her horror Sesuna discovers her family's property has been over-run by rebels who plan to finance their revolution with the sale of Submit, a banned, highly addictive drug employed to make users compliant. They have already planted some fields on her property with plants used to create it. If she can't prove her innocence the Magistra will use this as an excuse to seize the estate. But Before Sesuna can destroy the fields she and Selick are kidnapped by the rebels, whose leader intends to force Sesuna into marriage to gain control of the estate. Can Rupert and Sesuna defeat him and save her family's lands?
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