Too Good To Be True: Sci-Fi Sizzlers, #10

By Craig A. Falconer

IN THE HIGH-TECH PARADISE OF INDIGO SANDS, PERFECTION EXISTS.

OR SO THEY THINK...


For Bianca Blane, a young but jaded online influencer, the fame she once sought now weighs heavily on her shoulders.

When she receives an exclusive invitation to spend a preview week in the cutting edge tourist resort of Indigo Sands, Bianca seizes the opportunity to disconnect from her increasingly demanding followers.

Indigo Sands strikes Bianca as truly pristine — perfect in every way.

She feels sure that she'll give the new resort a glowing endorsement as the most desirable destination in the world, home of the most advanced technologies ever created.

But before too long, a veil is lifted.

Because behind the facade, nothing is as it seems...

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Too Good To Be True is the latest in a new series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig A. Falconer
• Release date: Nov 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223040750

Craig A. Falconer

Craig A. Falconer is a sci-fi author from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Too Good To Be True

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

CRAIG A. FALCONER

Too Good To Be True

© 2021 Craig A. Falconer

This edition published November 2023.

The characters and events herein are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Bound For Glory

Author’s Notes

Books by Craig A. Falconer

THE EARTHBURST SAGA

Last Man Standing

Into The Fire

Operation Starshot

The Anomaly

Reason To Fear

The Last Horizon

Echoes Of Destiny

The Reckoning

All Or Nothing

NOT ALONE SERIES

Not Alone: First Encounter (Prequel)

Not Alone

Not Alone: Second Contact

Not Alone: The Final Call

~ Contact Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Fractured Union

Not Alone: Leap of Destiny

Not Alone: Revelations

~ Discovery Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: The Awakening

Not Alone: Hidden Wonder

Not Alone: Endgame

~ Evolution Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Origins

TERRADOX SERIES

Terradox Zero: Before The Crash (Prequel)

Terradox

The Fall of Terradox

Terradox Reborn

Terradox Beyond

~ Worlds Away collection ~

~ Terradox Quadrilogy box set ~

CYBER SEED SERIES

Sycamore

Sycamore 2

Sycamore X

Sycamore XL

~ Cyber Seed Compendium Box Set ~

SCI-FI SIZZLERS

Wanderlust

Bound For Glory

Sunset Stays

Arise With Us

Whence They Came

Replica

Megaton Murphy

A Scent Of Man

Yester Year

Too Good To Be True

Happy, Inc.

Pamela 2.0

Funscreen

Pumpkin Splice

When Santa Slays

~ Chasing Tomorrows 15-Book Box Set ~

Seedling

Empty Nesters

A Savage In The Future

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And that’s all for now, you guys, I say, smiling towards the tripod I can barely see thanks to all the bright lights around it. "These famous Gravesen Hotel views of the Eiffel Tower are even better after dark, so make sure you join me again for my moonlit rooftop dinner in a few hours. Peace and love… BeeBee byebye!"

I press the handheld remote to kill the video as soon as that stupid sign-off is out of my mouth. After that I don’t even lift my phone from the tripod or turn off the lights on my way to collapsing on the enormous bed.

It’s been a long day — they all are lately — and right now the idea of a two-hour livestream over dinner sounds about as appealing as a tightrope walk from my balcony to the Eiffel Tower itself.

BeeBee byebye.

Every time I say it these days, I have to fight to stop my eyes from rolling into the back of my head.

It seemed like a good line when I started making videos, what with my name being Bianca Blane and the alliteration fitting with the tone of my old content.

Now I often find myself wishing I’d gone with anything else… at least until I start thinking that whatever sign-off I had picked, I would hate it by now after having to say it so many thousands of times.

I get ten, maybe fifteen seconds before Jason lets himself into the suite.

Nailed it again, Superstar, he beams.

His words mean nothing. Jason is everything you’d expect a social media influencer’s endorsement manager to be: a well-dressed and fast-talking bullshit artist.

I didn’t always feel like this about everything, but three years of relentless attention takes a toll. When I was rising through the ranks, all I wanted was more eyeballs. Now that I’m on top,