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    Fire on Ice
    Fire on Ice
    Fire on Ice
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    Fire on Ice

    By Deirdre O'Dare

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    Bard Welstaad is a model Uni-Fleet officer. He’s not sure what his unit is to accomplish, marching up an icy peninsula in the frozen hell of Gelada, but without his NCO, Gordon Farrell, he knows he could not keep the unit together fighting off Snow Wasps and the savage deadly cold. Not until tragedy strikes does he admit the big sergeant means much more to him than simply being his right hand man.

    Gordon Farrell idolizes his captain, who represents everything he reveres. The threat of imminent death finally forces him to admit the strength of his feelings as he fights to save Bard’s life. With death stalking at their heels, they can only hope to live long enough to share more than a single incredible night. Fate seems to conspire against them at every turn. Still they cling to the frail hope that somehow their love will find a way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateMay 14, 2019
    ISBN9781634869317
    Fire on Ice
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    Deirdre O'Dare

    Deirdre writes gay romance channeling a prior life’s gay male twin she calls Danny. Fascinated by love’s diverse shades and guises, she explores and experiences a range of attachments. She still believes in happily ever after, that Love is the One True Thing and genuine Love is never wrong. For more information, visit deirdredares.blogspot.com.

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      Fire on Ice - Deirdre O'Dare

      Fire on Ice

      By Deirdre O’Dare

      Published by JMS Books LLC at Smashwords

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2019 Deirdre O’Dare

      ISBN 9781634869317

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      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted.

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      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

      NOTE: This book was previously published by Amber Quill Press.

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      To the recollection of my first glimpse of Sputnik and TeleStar long years ago, and to the cast, writers and crew of the original Star Trek series. Mr. Spock is still one of my heroes! These impressions awoke in me a fascination with the idea of exploring the universe and an endless curiosity as to what might be found out there. My Uni-Fleet stories are my imagined efforts at space exploration.

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      Fire on Ice

      By Deirdre O’Dare

      Chapter 1

      Gelada, 2285

      They had it all wrong. Hell was cold, and Bard was there. Someone had said it was minus fifty-five Fahrenheit this morning, at least before the thermometer froze, the red liquid inside congealing like clotting blood in the bulb.

      On Gelada, the Uni-Fleet Troops fought two enemies—the—illusive, barely-visible armies that harried them with continual swift-stabbing attacks and the weather. So far the weather had inflicted the most casualties. The natives were small, almost bug-like in appearance, and attacked in insectoid swarms, using cruel though tiny spears and arrows, glass-bladed war axes, weapons primitive almost beyond belief. Only the fact they could move lightning fast, in spite of the snow and ice, and were all but invisible until they fell upon you made them even marginally effective. Silence and surprise were their stock in trade. Woe betide the straggler who fell a few steps behind the unit. He was marked for death at once and taken down with merciless efficiency. Three of their number had been lost that way before word spread and everyone stayed closely bunched.

      Bard found a certain irony in the fact that, for all the technology at the Universal Council’s disposal, troops on the ground, armed with old-fashioned projectile firearms were still often needed to take and hold territory. On many of the worlds the council sought to conquer and add to their galaxy-spanning empire, much of the technology simply did not work. Gelada was one of those worlds. What value they perceived in this misbegotten ball of ice on the outer fringes of explored space, he had no idea.

      He only knew no electro-magnetic-based devices were reliable here. The experts had some lengthy explanation about magnetic fields and energy bands that he didn’t fully understand. Because of this, he knew his force was operating at least five hundred years into the past. They carried EM-25 rifles that used gunpowder and archaic metallic projectiles. They communicated with battery powered wire-linked phones, or tried to when the batteries didn’t freeze. At

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