Scout's Oath

After crash-landing on the lost colony world of Aashla, Terran ScoutDavid Rice rescued Princess Callan, kidnapped heir to the throne ofMordan. In fighting his way across half the planet to see her homesafely, he won her love, and then her hand in marriage. Now David andCallan want nothing more than to settled down and live happily everafter...

But a man can't do what David has done without making powerful enemies, and his enemies want revenge!

Told in the form of a lead-in novella and a novel, Scout's Oath opens with the story of a young thief who risks his life to bring David and Callan a warning that starts them on a desperate race against timeto find and rescue her parents. Then, to stop the outbreak ofplanet-wide war, David must surrender to King Rat, ruler of the tunnelsbeneath the city-state of Beloren, and it falls to Callan to pulltogether a band of unlikely heroes and organize his rescue. Can an oldpirate, a young thief, a crusty doctor, and a daring airship pilot helpCallan do the impossible?

Scout's Oath is an excitingmodern homage to the classic tales of planetary romance made famous bywriters such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett. If you likeyour heroes unabashedly heroic, your heroines feisty and true, and yourplots filled with dangers and twists at every turn, you'll enjoy Scout's Oath.