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Tyger: An Out-of-This-World Tale
Tyger: An Out-of-This-World Tale
Tyger: An Out-of-This-World Tale
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An alien culture. An exciting adventure. An imminent war...

As one of the few humans on planet Tyger, young colonist Astrid is thrilled to be invited to the local New Year festival. After all, who wouldn’t want to experience the glamour of an alien palace ruled over by the charismatic Emir Raka?

But her adventure turns dangerous when someone close to her falls for a local who’s completely off-limits. Their forbidden romance sets off a chain of events that impact both worlds, and Astrid herself becomes the target of a culture that believes in an eye for an eye.

Meanwhile, the festival proves to be a mere cover for someone’s desire for power...at the expense of everyone around them. For the Tyger wealth and beauty hides a very ugly secret, one that will change everything the humans think they know about this planet and its people...

A standalone novel.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherM. Marinan
Release dateJun 7, 2020
ISBN9780995119673
Tyger: An Out-of-This-World Tale
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M. Marinan

M. Marinan is comfortably located in Wellington, New Zealand: a city that ‘you can’t beat on a fine day’. (Disclaimer: there aren’t that many fine days, but she’s still there.)She loves stories with adventure, drama and a happy ending, and writes in the same vein. She also likes beautiful things, nice people and carefully created art – the sort that looks as though it took effort, not like a toddler painted it with a brush stuck to their forehead. She also illustrates all her own work. It’s fun, she knows the characters...and she’s a bit cheap.Thanks to Massey University for making her feel qualified to publish her own work (and for giving her a student debt that will follow her into her old age. It was worth it).

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