The Scent of Memory, a science fiction romance from Shari Elder

We are thrilled to have Shari Elder stop by this week to share her a science fiction romance, The Scent of Memory. Welcome, Shari! We are all so excited to hear much more about The Scent of Memory.

 Hello, everyone.  I am Shari Elder and I’m thrilled to be visiting Madison Michael’s Blog today.  I write science fiction and paranormal romance, usually steamy.  I started writing romance because I love happy endings. I especially love to give happy endings to those who have given up on ever finding them.  Personally. I have had those moments in life where I had to fight to maintain hope, where I couldn’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel and struggled to believe it was there anymore. Writing romance is one way to keep that light always in the distance, where I can see it.  The choice of science fiction and paranormal is because I love to build worlds – to play with rules and norms and design, and make sure they all fit together.  As for making sure the love scenes are steamy, that to me is about making it real.  How people make love with each other says a lot about them as individuals and how they work as a couple.

I’m a practical writer. Have laptop, can write anywhere. At home, I can be found on my couch, feet up, computer on my lap. I have written on the metro, on my bed, at the kitchen table, in various coffee shops and restaurants, at other people’s houses, in email windows during lunch at work, and speaking notes to my phone while in rush hour traffic.  I usually always have a notebook with me to capture stray thoughts. As much as I love my laptop, I still enjoy the feel of a pen in my hand, especially a gel pen, which glides across the page.

I’m pleased to share my latest release, The Scent of Memory, Book 2 of my science fiction series Green Rising. Enjoy.

About The Scent of Memory:

Twelve years ago, Marisol lost Aren. Now he’s back – pointing a gun at her head and treating her like a stranger.

Rebel hacker, Marisol Martinez, never thought volunteering to keep the hospital safe from cyborgs would lead her back to the man sabotage ripped from her arms. The man she swore to avenge by any means possible.

For over a decade, Cap protected the cyborgs under his command from every danger. Until he meets an insurgent, whose scent wreaks havoc on his control. She calls him Aren and insists she knows him. But she’s wrong. He has no past, no present, no future – only orders he’s programmed to complete.

Forced together, Marisol and Cap can’t resist the passion that keeps building between them.  With time running out, Marisol must use her computer skills to restore Aren’s memories or Cap will kill all subversives on the planet – starting with her.

Series: Green Rising Book 2
Keywords: science fiction, romance, love, novella, cyborgs, hackers, aliens, amnesia, rebels.

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The Scent of Memory TEASER EXCERPT (PG):

 “I’ll take you there,” Marisol volunteered. “Follow me.” She rushed out of the room. He was by her side in seconds.

“Explain your interest in me.” He turned off his scent sensors to prevent himself from being sucked into the pungent turbulence of emotions spilling out in her aroma.

“We were to be married.” The gentle emotion vibrating in her voice stroked his remaining flesh like a caress. He shook it off. It was dangerous.

“Was it arranged?”

“No, we chose each other. We were living together when you were killed—abducted—after a mining accident.”

“We were intimate?” Heat roared through him. He shut it down reluctantly. He was starting to like the way he felt around her.

“You have no memories of me? Of us?” She blinked rapidly as though to force back tears threatening to spill.

He shook his head. “Cybercorp wipes our long-term memories. Periodically, a memory fragment may surface, but our systems are programmed to shut down if that occurs. If a cyborg suffers from too many of these recalls, he is decommissioned.”

“That’s brutal.”

“We’re brutal. You’d be wise to remember that.”

About the Author:

Hello, I’m Shari. By day, I crawl out of bed, mainline coffee, walk the dog, get my kid to class, and save cities within the four walls of my office. Usually by email.

At night, the other Shari emerges.  With a glass of wine by side, I curl up on the couch with my computer nestled in my lap and let my imagination play until stories take shape.  I also periodically check on my teen-ager, hiding out in the bedroom. Once I’ve reassured myself she’s not plotting world domination, I pull out my alter ego, who definitely is.  As my alter ego, I save cities in a cape and spangled tights, wander space and time on a surfboard, fly over the Himalayas on feathered wings, make six-toed footprints in indigo talc snow on the sixth planet in the Andromeda galaxy or eavesdrop on Olympian gods while pretending to whip up a bowl of ambrosia.

In all these wondrous worlds, romance and passion blossom. I can’t resist a happy ending. And I am particularly prone to writing happy endings for those who have given up on ever getting one.

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