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Requiem: Aurora Resonant Book Three (Aurora Rhapsody 9)

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by G. S. Jennsen


  “Are you positive?”

  “Oh, yes.” She peered past him to the glade beyond the tree. “Do you suppose Akeso will mind if we build a cabin here?”

  His eyes unfocused briefly. “It’s somewhat dubious about the usefulness of this oddity called ‘shelter,’ but it has no objections.”

  “You don’t need to…?”

  “Physically interact with Akeso to speak to it? No.” He touched his palm to his chest. “It’s in here now. Part of me.”

  “Are you okay with that?”

  “Absolutely. Are you?”

  She chuckled and nuzzled his nose. “You were always such a nature boy, anyway. Of course I am.”

  “Good. I suspect it will prove to be a far better companion than the diati.” He propped up on an elbow and pointed. “Over there, you think?”

  “Sure. Or a bit more to the right, closer to the water?”

  “Because you like the water. Hey, speaking of water, this isn’t the beach.”

  “We’ll get there. Next week, maybe.”

  “Whenever you want.” He reached over and wound his hand into her hair as his voice dropped to a deep, lilting tenor. “What do we do now?”

  In this new world, where he was alive and so was she? He’d said it himself—anything was possible. Everything was possible. “We write the second story of our lives. Together.”

  “What’s past is prologue”

  — William Shakespeare

  THE STORY OF AURORA HAS COME TO AN END,

  BUT THE STORY OF AMARANTHE IS JUST BEGINNING

  BOOK 1

  EXIN EX MACHINA

  COMING IN 2018

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  AUTHOR'S NOTE

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  G. S. JENNSEN lives in Colorado with her husband and two dogs. Requiem is her ninth novel, all published by her imprint, Hypernova Publishing. She has become an internationally bestselling author since her first novel, Starshine, was published in March 2014. She has chosen to continue writing under an independent publishing model to ensure the integrity of the Aurora Rhapsody series and her ability to execute on the vision she’s had for it since its genesis.

  While she has been a lawyer, a software engineer and an editor, she’s found the life of a full-time author preferable by several orders of magnitude.

  When she isn’t writing, she’s gaming or working out or getting lost in the Colorado mountains that loom large outside the windows in her home. Or she’s dealing with a flooded basement, or standing in a line at Walmart reading the tabloid headlines and wondering who all of those people are. Or sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine, looking up at the stars, trying to figure out what could be up there.

  Title Page

  Dedication & Acknowledgments

  Aurora Rhapsody

  Maps

  Dramatis Personae

  The Story So Far

  Contents Overview

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  PART I: AS YOU (NEVER) WERE

  1: AFS Stalwart II

  2: Palaemon

  3: Machimis Stellar System

  -- Chalmun Station Asteroid

  4: AFS Stalwart II

  5: AFS Stalwart II

  6: Solum

  -- Tellus

  7: Machimis Stellar System

  -- Palaemon

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  PART II: ANGELS & MONSTERS

  8: AFS Stalwart II

  9: Chionis

  10: Chionis Stellar System

  11: Chionis Stellar System

  -- Chionis

  12: Chionis

  -- Siyane

  -- Chionis

  13: AFS Stalwart II

  -- Siyane

  14: Chionis

  -- Anarch Post Satus

  15: Chionis

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  PART III:THE HARSH LIGHT OF NIGHT

  16: Tarach

  17: Tarach

  18: Solum

  19: Tarach

  -- AFS Stalwart II

  -- Tarach

  20: AFS Stalwart II

  21: AFS Stalwart II

  22: Anarch Post Satus

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  PART IV: SWORDS & SHIELDS

  23: Planet PD-8344c

  -- Milky Way Sector 9

  24: Vigil HQ

  25: AFS Stalwart II

  -- Siyane

  26: Anarch Post Satus

  -- Livad

  27: Tarach

  -- Nopreis

  -- Tarach

  28: Tarach

  29: Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy

  -- Solum

  30: Siyane

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  PART V: SOULS AFIRE

  31: AFS Stalwart II

  -- Anarch Post Satus

  32: AFS Stalwart II

  -- AFS Tamao

  33: Lastisi Stellar System

  -- Lastisi

  34: AFS Saratoga

  -- Machimis Central Command Annex

  35: Meleto

  36: Solum

  37: Luna

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  PART VI: WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS

  38: AFS Stalwart II

  39: AFS Saratoga

  40: Siyane

  41: AFS Stalwart II

  42: Chionis

  -- Anarch Post Satus

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p; 43: Tarach

  -- Milky Way Galactic Core

  44: AFS Stalwart II

  45: Taygeta

  46: AFS Stalwart II

  -- Milky Way Galactic Core

  47: AFS Stalwart II

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  PART VII: STARDUST

  48: Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy

  -- Aurora

  49: AFS Stalwart II

  50: AFS Stalwart II

  51: Presidio

  -- Idryma

  52: Hirlas

  53: Siyane

  --Presidio

  54: Romane

  ____________________

  CODA: EVER ON & ON

  Earth

  Akeso

  ____________________

  ANR

  Author’s Note

  About the Author

  Requiem Blurb

 

 

 


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