Laurie Parker and the Intergalactic Girl Show

By C. C. Blake

Laurie Parker has been enslaved, misused, turned into a gladiatrix. Now, she's a free woman on a trail of vengeance. Her winding road has led her to the master of her misery, the mysterious Lord of Shackles.

Her mission is clear: nail the mastermind of a slavery ring. The challenges before her are numerous, but one rises far above the others. How can she hope to succeed on Glory Prime, a world founded by anarchists and built on the principles of social chaos?

Author C. C. Blake returns to his dirty space opera universe in this hardboiled science fiction tale. It's a revenge story served up with spicy pulp style, dealing surprises and twists with equal measure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Feb 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310585128

C. C. Blake

C.C. Blake has lived across the United States, starting in the suburbs of Detroit, to Massachusetts’ second largest city (Worcester) to the country’s seventh largest city (San Antonio, Texas, that is). He’s has a variety of jobs, working as a substitute teacher, the graveyard shift dishwasher at a haunted Denny’s, lab research monkey and teaching assistant at a second tier college. Currently, he works as an automation consultant for a chemical company on the Northeast side of SAtown (which isn’t as Hellish as it sounds). Blake’s most popular character, irrepressible adventurer Chuck Cave, has appeared in over two dozen stories, including the 2005 Man’s Story 2 Story of the Year Award winner “Chuck Cave and the Vanishing Vixen.” The character’s supernatural thriller stories (which began with the seminal “Cave and the Vamp”) are all being released as a part of Vampires2.com’s initial foray into e-books. These new versions are presented in expanded and revised versions, all are the author’s preferred texts. Be sure to collect them all! In addition to his pulp stories for the 2-Empire (Man’s Story 2, Vampires 2, Androids 2 and Paranormal Romance 2), Blake’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Unparalleled Journeys II (from Journey Books Publishing) and Fearology: Terrifying Tales of Phobias (from Library of Horror Press).

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Laurie Parker and the Intergalactic Girl Show

A Spicy Space Opera Story

By: C. C. Blake

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

Fiction © 2014 by C. C. Blake

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Dedication

To all the ferocious gals who have rocked my universe. Cheers to you.

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