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Muse Food – Grounded Boats And Hints In A Story

By Cynthia Sax on February 20, 2024

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted these grounded boats in Panama.

The sight of them immediately sparked questions.

Was their situation purely due to low tide or was it a result of the severe drought the region was experiencing? Why hadn’t the owners anchored the boats farther out? Were the tires deliberately placed in the mud? Etc. Etc.

We asked ourselves questions because we knew, by looking at the boats, that something was ‘wrong.’ Boats shouldn’t be grounded like that. They belong in the water.

Writers can also use actions or images to hint something isn’t quite right. In Drift Would, for example, the heroine, in one scene, touches her stomach. That’s not usually a casual gesture.

And it isn’t one in her case. I’m warning readers something isn’t quite right with the heroine by using that one seemingly throwaway sentence.

Use the unusual to spark questions in your readers.

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Strike Zone

A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.

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While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.

She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.

The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.

Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.

Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.

Desperately.

Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.

When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.

She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.

Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.

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Strike Zone is a standalone, mistaken-identity, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features a cyborg warrior with a finely honed sense of honor, a human support being taking on her first dangerous mission, and an evil that threatens everyone in existence.

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