Virtual Tour - Champion of Baresh By Susan Grant

An all-new, stand-alone tale of two improbable lovers, their daring secret, 

and the gamble destined to alter the course of their worlds forever!

The Champion of Barésh
Star World Frontier #1

By: Susan Grant

Released May 26, 2016

RITA-winner Susan Grant is back with an all-new, stand-alone tale of two improbable lovers, their daring secret, and the gamble destined to alter the course of their worlds forever!

She was playing with fire...

Jemm Aves battles to keep her dreams alive on a dead-end world. Working for the mines by day, she’s a successful bajha player at night, disguised as a male to be allowed to compete in the colony’s dangerous underworld where club owners will go to extremes to retain the best players. Every win puts her one small step closer to her goal: saving enough to escape Barésh with her family. When a nobleman from one of the galaxy’s elite families recruits her to be a star player for his team, it's because he doesn't know her secret. Her ruse proves to be her most perilous game yet when it puts both their lives—and her heart—at risk.

Prince Charming he was not...

Prince Klark is eager to reverse his reputation as the black sheep of the Vedla clan, a family as famous for its wealth and power as it is for being a bastion of male-dominated tradition. If his bajha team can win the galactic title it would go a long way toward restoring the family honor that his misdeeds tarnished. He travels to Barésh to track down an amateur who’s risen to the top of the seedy world of street bajha, offering the commoner a chance of a lifetime: a way off that reeking space rock for good. But his new player comes with a scandalous secret that turns his plans and his beliefs upside down. He sets out to win a very different prize—his champion’s reluctant heart.

REVIEW

Champion of Baresh is the  first  book by  Susan Grant that  I have  ever read. When  I read the synopsis I was immediately  intrigued.  I  needed to  know more so when I  got the  chance to read it early I got to it as soon as  I could. I was not  disappointed this  book was wonderful!

In this book  we mainly follow   Klark and  Jemm, I loved these two together  I  love  the whole trainer and trainee  relationship between them in the book .  I found that the romance between them was perfect  for the story I shipped these two together so  very hard  lol . I was absolutely  thrilled with where  we left  them at the end of this book . There  relationship  was  very  unique ,  as they  spent  more time  around each other you  began to see them  open up to  each other,  learn from each other and  in the end  fall  in love. I  loved the world  building  in this book  as  I  learned more about the worlds,  the setting and the traditions  I was so  very   fascinated and I  love that  Susan Grant found away to  explain it all in away  that it did  not  come off so  complex that it was confusing and sometimes  in science fiction this  tends to  happened.I loved that Jemm  was this amazing female Bajha  player in competition that is so male dominated  I was rooting  for her all the way through this book.

Champion of Baresh By Susan Grant was  Fun , Sexy , Thrilling , Emotional , Heartwarming  and just a pleasure  to read . Between the   cast of  character , the unique settings and  entertaining  plot Susan grant  has not  only  created  an amazing story  but  a fantastic  science fiction novel .Iam definitely look forward to seeing what Susan grant will write next . IF you love all these things in your books I suggest you  pick up  a copy

RATING

5/5 STARS

                                    Q&A with Susan Grant

1 Can you tell us a little about your writing process?

My stories incubate in my head. I daydream the entire book and also scene by scene. I have a very long drive to the airport for work, so that’s primetime for thinking about my work(s) in progress. That’s when I love to listen to music, too. It inspires me. Each book has its own playlist. Going about my day, I’ll type out snatches of dialogue or scene bits and add them to my notes app on my iPhone. I add those notes to the book file, the story itself, when I next sit down to write. I don’t outline, but before too long the entire book is sketched out in the file. My first draft is also pretty much my final draft. I polish where I’ve been before moving on. I’m too OCD to have a sloppy draft. It wrecks my creativity. It’s a weird way to do things but it works for me.

2 Where do you get your book inspiration from?

Anywhere and everywhere!

3 Describe The Champion of Barésh in 5 words?

Immersive. Suspenseful. Different. Exhilarating. Hybrid.

4 If you could invite 10 of your characters to a dinner (they can come from any of your books) who would you invite and why?

Ten? TEN? I hope they don’t mind eating pizza!  

1. Jemm Aves

2. Klark Vedla

3. Muffin

4. Nico Aves

5. Uncle Yul

6. Káo Vantaar-Moray

7.Carly Callahan

8. Ilana Hamilton

9. Ché Vedla

10. Ian Hamilton

5 What are you working on now book wise?

Now that I’m indie, I’m having the time of my life writing. I’m working on a short for a fun project with some of the other authors from the Sci-Fi Romance Brigade. The collection is called Pets in Space, and that pretty much sums up the stories. Mine will take place in the Star Series/Star World Frontier world, a royal alien, a commoner Earthling, and the pet who brings them together. I’m also working on the next Star World Frontier book, and also the first installment in an alien abduction trilogy. Very exciting.

Excerpt 

As soon as Kes left the locker room, Klark turned to the wall and slapped his hands against the cold, tiled wall, keeping them pressed there, fingers spread, willing his hands to serve as anchors to prevent him from going after her.

Sea Kestrel, a female.

A woman!

No mere woman, either. He remembered her as Jemm, the errant Nico’s alleged girlfriend: her long, strong, lean body and the graceful way she moved; that swaying, tempting bottom as she walked away; her wavy hair wild and loose—all but begging for his fingers to be tangled in it as he made love to her.

Damnation. The mental image alone made his body react and his blood run hot. Yet, this same female to which he was so attracted played bajha far better than he ever could. He had come to respect her as an unbelievably talented athlete, had let down his guard around her as a friend, and now she was a beautiful woman, as well? In his world, such disparate qualities could not apply to any one person. Yet, together, they added up to Jemm.

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Susan Grant is a New York Times bestselling author who enjoys being able to indulge her love of travel and adventure by piloting jumbo jets around the globe. Her careers as a commercial pilot and air force pilot have provided endless inspiration for her books. Susan is the author of The Star King, launch book of her popular Star series about a spacefaring Earth family, as well as the RITA-winning novel Contact. Her new series debuts in 2016 with The Champion of Barésh. Susan and her family live in the scenic foothills of northern California.

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