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    Passion's Power
    Passion's Power
    Passion's Power
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    Passion's Power

    By Regina Sage

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    Beatrice is a battalion leader in the Cetean Military and absolutely mean with a bident. Any nasty creations those Necros can throw at her will fall with ease. So she most definitely doesn’t need the scribe her father, the General, saddles her with... Except he is the most beautiful male she’s ever seen. It is a relief when she finally gets a bit of leave, but the short vacation comes with unexpected company. When all Hel breaks loose, she has to make a series of hard decisions, which put her race at risk as well as her heart. Can she balance the hard life as a commanding officer with her desire for her muscle-bound male assistant? Can they both make room in their lives for their passions, and still fight for a better world?
    **This book is a prequel, and contains spoilers for others in the series.**

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegina Sage
    Release dateFeb 1, 2023
    ISBN9798201645328
    Passion's Power
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    Regina Sage

    Regina Sage is the pen name of a linguist and dialect coach based out of the Midwest United States. She lives with her copirate in a beautiful small town surrounded by a sea of wheat fields. When not writing steamy romances, she spends her time creating new voices for the stage (and D&D characters), and working with her communities to revitalize the arts in the region. She likes to garden, cook, crack whips and sling steel. If she doesn’t run twenty miles in a week, she calls it self-care and reads a book instead. Check out her website for new book updates, a guide to the Underwater World, and bonus material about characters! Visit https://sites.google.com/view/regina-sage-author/about for more.

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      Passion's Power - Regina Sage

      Passion’s Power

      An Underwater Novella

      By Regina Sage

      Contents

      Title Page

      Author’s Note

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Epilogue

      Also By Author

      Copyright Page

      Author’s Note

      This novella is a prequel to other works in the Underwater Series. If you have not read the first novel, Ocean’s Embrace, or other stories set in the Underwater World, some of the events herein may be confusing. I wanted to explain some details that will make your reading more pleasurable. (Well, I didn’t want to so much as I was strongly encouraged to do so by Leanne and Vester. They thought you needed some background before you took the plunge.)

      This is your last spoiler alert! I cannot guarantee that the notes below will not give away portions of this novella or other books in the series. (Which is why I said this section was unnecessary, but they insisted, and who am I, really, to argue? I’m just the author, which counts for little in the scheme of the Universe.)

      Ceteans (pronounced KEE-tee-ens) are a race of people that do not live on Earth. They aren’t exactly aliens, per se, but they are not human. Humanoid in shape, they also have scales, sharp teeth, ‘selective gillitude’ (Leanne’s words, not mine), and venomous barbs instead of nails. For the first portion of their lives, they are aquatic beings, but can venture onto land as they mature. They have more advanced tech than our human gadgets could ever electrically dream of being.

      Since they have such great technological advancements, they can travel between planets on ships, many of which double as what we troglodytes would call submarines. Traversing large gaps in space, or directly into some planets’ atmospheres, is done via Jump. Jumps are a kind of portal/wormhole and are strictly regulated. Badly planned Jumps result in death, decapitation, dismemberment, or other doom related words starting with ‘D’ (again, thanks Leanne).

      Unlike many human cultures, fortunately, they are a largely matriarchal race. They are divided into Houses, which more or less resemble groups of families in a self-sufficient village. Each House has particular strengths and specialties. The only override to the influence of a House Matriarch in their military is another higher ranking Cetean. Males, females, or ‘bad asses beyond the binary’ may be of any rank (my words, not Leanne’s). Very like many human cultures, unfortunately, they ascribe to a certain kind of speciesism. They don’t care for outsiders, which means anyone who is not born a Cetean. After you read this novella, that attitude will make more sense abstractly, even if we all agree that most forms of segregation-based beliefs and other similar -isms are a waste of everyone’s time.

      Necros are the bad guys in this story. They are a designation for a group of people with skills and political leanings that risk many races, species, and cultures in the Underwater World. In this instance, their skills involve working with the Dead, primarily to Raise them and use them as machines of war. Some constructs are combinations of bits to make the nastiest thing an individual Necro could think up. The Ceteans have been fighting with the Necros for a very long time to protect their most precious of cultural treasures: their young, also called tads or pups.

      The war went on for so long and had such a high death toll for such little change that the other races got involve. The major powerhouses of the galaxy declared that something needed to change. Thus, the Vamps, Giants, Elves and Khattes got into it. (There were other races, too, but they are not mentioned here, and Vester hasn’t deigned to elaborate. I was unable to reach Beatrice for comment, as she has

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