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    Alone: The Mars Diaries, #1
    Alone: The Mars Diaries, #1
    Alone: The Mars Diaries, #1
    Ebook48 pages34 minutes

    Alone: The Mars Diaries, #1

    By Skye MacKinnon

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    ***Winner of Reality Bites Magazine's Best Sci-Fi Book Award***

    It all started with a headache.

    Next came the cramps.

    Then, the pain. Cries and wails filled the station.

    The bloody cough killed most of them.

    The others succumbed to the fever.

    And then, silence.

    I'm the only one left.

    My name is Louise and I'm the only human on Mars.

     

    The first boook in the Mars Diaries, a sci-fi reverse harem romance based on the Six Swans fairy tale.

    This story is set in the same world as the Claiming Her Bears series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeryton Press
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781386600466
    Alone: The Mars Diaries, #1
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    Skye MacKinnon

    Skye MacKinnon is a USA Today & International Bestselling Author whose books are filled with strong heroines who don't have to choose. She embraces her Scottishness with fantastical Scottish settings and a dash of mythology, no matter if she's writing about Celtic gods, cat shifters, or the streets of Edinburgh. When she's not typing away at her favourite cafe, Skye loves dried mango, as much exotic tea as she can squeeze into her cupboards, and being covered in pet hair by her bunny diva and cat princess.

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      Book preview

      Alone - Skye MacKinnon

      This story is based on the Six Swans by the Brothers Grimm.

      Six brothers have been turned into swans by their stepmother. To free them, their sister Elise must make six shirts out of nettles and can't make a sound for six years or the spell will never be broken.

      The King of another country finds her doing this, is taken by her beauty, and marries her. When Elise, now queen, has given birth to their first child, the King's own wicked mother-in-law takes away the child and accuses the queen of that deed. Unable to defend herself, Elise is sentenced to be burned at the stake as a witch.

      On the day of her execution, she has all but finished making the shirts for her brothers. Only the last shirt misses a left arm. When she is brought to the stake she takes the shirts with her and when she is about to be burned, the six years expire and six swans come flying through the air. She throws the shirts over her brothers and they regain their human form. The youngest brother is left with a wing because she didn't finish the shirt.

      The evil mother-in-law is punished and the king and the queen with her six brothers live many years in happiness and peace.

      Prologue

      It all started with a headache.

      Next came the cramps.

      Then, the pain. Cries and wails filled the station.

      The bloody cough killed most of them.

      The others succumbed to the fever.

      And then, silence.

      I’m the only one left.

      My name is Louise and I’m the last human on Mars.

      Week 1

      There's six of them in the loading bay. They arrived last night and I've been staring at them ever since. Six cryogenic pods, each containing one man. They left Earth before the plague struck the station, and they've been sleeping ever since their rocket took off into space. They don't know what awaits them here. They've missed all the death and pain and heartache. I'm just as jealous as I am happy for them.

      Through the glass window on top of the pods, I can see their faces. The first faces I've seen in two months. That's how long I've been alone now. It feels like an eternity.

      They're all in their early thirties, according to the files that show up on the screens at bottom of their pods. There's a lot of information in those files, hundreds of pages about their lives, their experiences, and their health. Graphs show their vital signs; all steady and normal. For now, they are healthy.

      The people on Earth say that the men can stay in the lifepods for another seven weeks, that's how long the supplies will last. Then I have to let them out and breathe the air of the station. But we don't know if the virus is still here, and we cannot

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