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Featured Sci-fi: The Curse of Sotkari – A Romantic Space Opera Book 1 by Maria A. Perez

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Featured Sci-fi: The Curse of Sotkari - A Romantic Space Opera Book 1 by Maria A. Perez

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Stolen from Earth…only to learn she’s not entirely human.

Mina, a wife and mother, is snatched from her family and forced to serve the ruthless Lostai on a distant science station. The DNA of an evolved race known as Sotkari Ta lies dormant in her genes. The Lostai, determined to harness her latent telekinetic and telepathic abilities, push Mina through a brutal boot camp. Despite the hardships and abuse, Mina completes her training and is assigned her first mission, one that goes against her most basic principles. A mission she will not accept.

If Mina is to escape the Lostai, she must trust an arrogant and unpleasant soldier whose morals seem questionable, at best. The strong attraction between them both annoys and unnerves her.

Even if she gets away, she will need to survive in this alien environment while evading the Lostai. Will she ever make it back to Earth, or have her actions already changed her destiny and the fate of those who assist her?Content Disclosure. This series is a space opera with strong romantic elements and heat. It features infidelity, violence, consensual sexual scenes, attempted rape, and sexual and physical abuse. Think Outlander meets Star Wars.


Featured Sci-fi: Song of the Caged Warrior (The Curse of Sotkari Ta) by Maria A. Perez

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Featured Sci-fi: Song of the Caged Warrior (The Curse of Sotkari Ta) by Maria A. Perez

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An orphan with amazing powers forced to serve his enemies.

Montor is a child, happily growing up on the planet of Aranda—until the Lostai, an imperialist alien race, invade his planet, then attack his seaside village. Soon, Montor loses his whole family to injuries, sickness, and punishment.

With his aggressive temperament fueling dreams of revenge, Montor seems destined to follow the same fate as his family and succumb to the cruelty of Lostai enslavement. Then the Lostai military discovers that Montor is no ordinary child; he possesses dormant telekinetic and telepathic abilities. Montor is transferred to a military science station where a devious commander intends to turn him into a Lostai super soldier.

Can Montor survive the brutal and humiliating bootcamp? How will he manage the anger, depression, and self-loathing that comes from serving in the very same military that decimated his people? Or will he refuse to be a pawn in Losta’s war and risk everything to take on the mantle of an Arandan warrior?


This space opera features non-human spacefaring civilizations, galactic war, and people with special abilities. It is a prequel to the romantic space opera trilogy, The Curse of Sotkari Ta, that can be enjoyed before or after reading the trilogy.