Survey Mission

By Jessica Payseur

Troy Iverson has fallen far because he kissed the wrong man -- from the flagship of the OriginCo corporation to Heavenhawk IV -- and he isn’t happy about it. So when he’s chosen as the botanist on a survey mission, he tries to keep far away from energetic entomologist Kipp Vaughn who won’t stop pestering him. There’s something about the man that bugs Troy.

Troy wants to get his job done and return to the ship, but survey missions never run smoothly, and a storm strands the team in a cave. With injured people, alien bats on the attack, and more deadly storms brewing, Troy and Kipp must return to the shuttle and contact the ship. If they can’t learn to work together, someone could die. But if Troy gets too comfortable around Kipp, he could lose everything this time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jan 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781634865784

Jessica Payseur

Jessica Payseur lives and writes in Wisconsin, where she spends the long winters typing with cold fingers. When not writing she enjoys snail mail, trying not to get lost geocaching, and bicycling around the countryside. For more information, visit twitter.com/jessica_payseur.

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Survey Mission

By Jessica Payseur

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2018 Jessica Payseur

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Survey Mission

By Jessica Payseur

And you couldn’t’ve told me this before we hauled our asses four miles from the shuttle?

Troy Iverson looked away as Irene turned her ire on Teresa, politely contemplating a vine growing up a yellow-brown tree. Overhead the sky churned, the charged scent of metal slipping past the landing party with the breeze.

We knew ahead of time readings wouldn’t be accurate, said Teresa, glaring. She was the best meteorologist aboard the Heavenhawk IV and had spent a good three decades with OriginCo, combing planets for resources. I did the best with what we have.

The storm was definitely building, Troy could feel it. Irene and Teresa stared each other down for a few more moments, the remainder of the party tense. He breathed a sigh of relief when Irene backed off. Troy liked the short, pale woman, but this was her first time leading a preliminary expedition and she’d been visibly stiff throughout. Teresa Peters was more a mentor to Troy than a friend, a Mexican-American woman in her fifties and the only other Terran on the entire ship. She set a neutral expression on her light brown face and followed.

"Right, then,