An Accidental Goddess
Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering where the last three hundred years have gone. The last thing she remembers is her ship being attacked. Now it seems that while she was time-traveling, she was ordained a goddess…....
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Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering where the last three hundred years have gone. The last thing she remembers is her ship being attacked. Now it seems that while she was time-traveling, she was ordained a goddess…. Gillaine’s only hope of survival rests with dangerously seductive Admiral Mack Makarian, who suspects her of being a smuggler—or worse. But he can’t begin to imagine the full extent of it. For Gillaine is now Lady Kiasidira, holy icon to countless believers, including Mack—a man who inspires feelings in her that are far from saintly…feelings she knows are mutual. But when their flirtation is interrupted by a treacherous enemy from the past, Gillaine’s secret—and secret desires—could destroy them both….
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553587999 (0553587994)
ASIN: 553587994
Publish date: December 27th 2005
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 434
Edition language: English
This is another long time fave that I pull out of the bookcase every so often to re-visit. A very clever premise, strong/smart heroine and a nice guy Hero. Throw in some action, humour, romance and you have a fun escapist read.
The author was recommended to me recently by a friend and is on a fantasy recommendation list for Wintertide, which is out of print, so I tried this one which is supposed to be a sequel, but set far in the future--which meant I didn't have any problems because I didn't know the prior book. Sinclair ...
Gillie wakes up 350 years after she last remembers being awake to find that at some stage she's become a goddess and it's left issues. Mack falls in love with her but has issues with the fact that she appears to be disrespectful of his goddess. Amusing, light, romance with sf overtones.
Gillie wakes up 350 years after she last remembers being awake to find that at some stage she's become a goddess and it's left issues. Mack falls in love with her but has issues with the fact that she appears to be disrespectful of his goddess.Amusing, light, romance with sf overtones.
I really liked this book because of the way Linnea managed the power balance between her heorine and hero. It was refreshing to have a female who had to basically hide her powers so as not to freak out a lover who actually worshipped the person she had been. A great example of Linnea's writing at he...