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  “He says I’m one of the few people he knows for sure will always do the right thing for the right reasons.” Erron sounded very adult and very proud. “That’s not why I’m calling.”

  “Then?”

  “The Captain would like to see you, sir,” Erron said.

  Marlow clamped her jaw together. “I’m on my way,” she said stiffly.

  * * * * *

  She had only ever been in the Captain’s office once before, when she was appointed lieutenant of the civil division. She had been nervous and worried that at any second, David Sekar would tell her it was all a joke, the job wasn’t really hers after all.

  It didn’t feel any more comfortable today, either. She stayed on her feet and at stiff attention. “Captain?”

  Jonah shut the door behind her, then held out a wrapped parcel. There was a ribbon on top, gay and mocking.

  “What’s this?” she asked, startled.

  “Open it.” Despite the gift and the ribbon, his expression was sober. There was no twinkle of amusement in his eyes, like she remembered. She hadn’t seen him laugh or smile very much since he had taken office. Tiredness was etched into his face, too.

  Curiously, she opened the gift. It was a framed printout of a chart.

  She stared at it, confused.

  Jonah touched the frame. “For weeks now, I have had the institutions measuring nearly two dozen critical life functions and resources on the ship. Water, food, oxygen. Civil unrest. A lot more that the sociologists insisted were critical to the longevity of the ship. Some of them are things I never thought of before, including how many times people complained about their neighbors on the Forum.”

  “That’s critical?”

  “Apparently. Too much means a general trend toward discontent. Too little means people feel oppressed and can’t speak out. There is a just-right level of social conflict.”

  “I didn’t know that,” she murmured, looking at the chart. “This is a measure of those factors?”

  Jonah nodded. “It’s a cumulative measure. Look.” He traced the red line.

  “It’s going up,” she breathed, delighted. “Jonah, you did it!”

  He shook his head and took the frame away from her. “We did it. Everyone on the ship did it and I’m going to make sure they all understand that. Later.” He drew her toward him, his hand around hers. “Now everyone can breathe a bit more freely. We’ve turned a corner. We can start to think of other things now.”

  Her heart squeezed. She looked up at him as his arm pressed up against her back. “Did you think I minded that you put the ship first?” she whispered.

  “I minded,” he growled. “I want you in my life. I want you to live with me. Erron can, too, if he wants, as long as you are there.”

  She started to tremble. “We’ll both be so busy….”

  Jonah shook his head. “No. We’ll make time. We’ve saved the ship. You are my priority, now.”

  “In that case, you’d better kiss me, or I’ll just have to make you.”

  Jonah smiled. “Ah…you’re good for my ego, Marlow, my love.”

  He kissed her.

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  Promissory Note, Book 3, The Endurance series.

  They can change life aboard the Endurance, if only they can work together.

  Thanks to a small disaster aboard the Endurance, popular, beautiful and adored Laura Hyland is unable to meet the terms of a promissory note she wrote. The note has been signed over to the horrible Micah Thorn, an elite coder with a dark reputation and no social skills. The note ties Laura to Thorn and forces her to work with him. When she digs into his personal history, though, his work takes on a far deeper meaning…and could change everyone’s life for the better.

  Promissory Note is the third book in the science fiction romance series readers are calling gripping, superb and fantastic. Written by award-winning SFR author Tracy Cooper-Posey, it is set aboard the closed-system marathon-class vessel Endurance, a generation ship a thousand years from its destination. If you like the smart, romantic SF of authors like Linnea Sinclair and Anna Hackett, you will love the Endurance series.

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  This book is part of The Endurance SFR series:

  Book 0.5 5,001

  Book 1.0 Greyson’s Doom

  Book 2.0 Yesterday’s Legacy

  Book 3.0 Promissory Note

  …and more to come!

  A Science Fiction Romance Novel.

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  About the Author

  Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, paranormal, urban fantasy, futuristic and science fiction romances. She has published over 65 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.

  She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year and Byzantine Heartbreak was a 2012 winner. Faring Soul won a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.

  She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

  Other books by Tracy Cooper-Posey

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  Blood Knot Series (Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)

  Blood Knot*

  Southampton Swindle

  Broken Promise

  Vale

  Amor Meus

  Blood Stone

  Blood Unleashed

  Blood Drive

  Blood Revealed

  Blood Ascendant

  Beloved Bloody Time Series (Paranormal Futuristic Time Travel)

  Bannockburn Binding*

  Wait

  Byzantine Heartbreak

  Viennese Agreement

  Romani Armada

  Spartan Resistance

  Kiss Across Time Series (Paranormal Time Travel)

  Kiss Across Time*

  Kiss Across Swords

  Time Kissed Moments I

  Kiss Across Chains

  Kiss Across Deserts

  Kiss Across Kingdoms

  The Kine Prophecies (Epic Norse Fantasy Romance)

  The Branded Rose Prophecy

  The Stonebrood Saga(Gargoyle Paranormal Series)

  Carson’s Night*

  Beauty’s Beasts

  Harvest of Holidays

  Unbearable

  Sabrina’s Clan

  Destiny’s Trinities (Urban Fantasy Romance Series)

  Beth’s Acceptance*

  Mia’s Return

  Sera’s Gift

  The First Trinity (Anth.)

  Cora’s Secret

  Zoe’s Blockade

  Octavia’s War

  The Second Trinity (Anth.)

  Terra’s Victory

  Interspace Originas (Science Fiction Romance Se
ries)

  Faring Soul

  Varkan Rise

  Cat and Company

  Short Paranormals

  Solstice Surrender

  Eva’s Last Dance

  The Vistaria Affair (Romantic Suspense)

  Red Leopard*

  Black Heart

  Blue Knight

  White Dawn

  Go-get-‘em Women (Short Romantic Suspense Series)

  The Royal Talisman

  Delly’s Last Night

  Vivian’s Return

  Ningaloo Nights

  Jewells of Tomorrow (Historical Romantic Suspense)

  Diana By The Moon

  Heart of Vengeance

  Scandalous Sirens (Historical Romance Series)

  Forbidden*

  Dangerous Beauty

  Perilous Princess

  Romantic Thrillers Series

  Fatal Wild Child

  Dead Again

  Dead Double

  Terror Stash

  Thrilling Affair

  The Endurance (Science Fiction Romance Series)

  5,001

  Greyson’s Doom

  Yesterday’s Legacy

  Promissory Note

  Contemporary Romances

  Lucifer’s Lover

  An Inconvenient Lover

  The Sherlock Holmes Series (Romantic Suspense/Mystery)

  Chronicles of the Lost Years

  The Case of the Reluctant Agent

  For reviews, excerpts, and more about each title, visit Tracy’s site and click on each title in turn: http://tracycooperposey.com/books-by-thumbnail/

  Copyright Information

  This is an original publication of Tracy Cooper-Posey

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for third-party websites or their content.

  Copyright © 2016 by Tracy Cooper-Posey

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  Cover by Dar Albert

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  FIRST EDITION: July 2016

  Cooper-Posey, Tracy

  Yesterday’s Legacy/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.

  Romance—Fiction

  Science Fiction – Fiction