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Indian Jones

Forbidden love: a pirate's allure

She was a princess and he was a pirate... They were two people from different worlds and yet somehow, their paths crossed. Catherine hated him...or so she thought. She hated the way his roughish and untamed yet handsome looks were only his. The way his eyes seemed to draw her in every time that she looked into them... He was never to be the one her heart fancied and yet...it seemed like fate had other plans in store. Captain Leon Jones Calabran was a notorious pirate whose heart belonged to his ship and all he ever dreamed of was sailing the high seas and enjoying the life of a free man, living as he pleased and answering to no one. Well, that was before his core morals were threatened by an unexpected yet interesting encounter with a princess. She was everything except a humble and docile princess in character. Her stubborn, cheeky and sometimes cold behavior intrigued him. Jones knew from the very first time he lay his eyes on her that she was trouble. Trouble for his heart. .... Jones swallowed hard as he averted his gaze from her. it was time for her to return to her family. His job which was to protect her was officially done and yet something clawed within his chest. Something strong enough to make his heart ache. His throat felt tight as he stared down at the heavy purse of gold that was in his hand. The gold was more than he had asked for. He was supposed to be pleased with the king's generousity and yet all he could feel was a gnawing pit at the bottom of his stomach. He sighed as he realized that he did not want Catherine to go... Jones wished that she could stay a while longer so that he could hold her in his arms and tell her how much he adored her. He wanted to kiss her and... Jones groaned at how much torture his thoughts brought him because he knew he had to let her go. He had to be selfless and spare her the heartache. It was a forbidden thought on his side to even think of loving her... It could be a forbidden love but what pained him most was the fact that he did not know if Catherine perhaps felt something romantic for him. Jones knew she hated him. ***** This is a story that tells an interesting tale of a pirate and princess who happened go on a voyage together. Their love story unfolds amidst various mysteries, possible dangers and secrets that threaten to tear both their worlds apart.
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Odyssey Part I

70s of this century, humanity has long abandoned fossil fuels generating energy exclusively through nuclear fusion from Helium-3 but the hyper-exploitation of the Moon and asteroids threatens to leave humanity short of energy or bring it back to the pollution generated by fossil fuels. For this reason the Italian Space Agency, after having created ground and orbiting outposts on the Moon, Mars and Jupiter as well as extraction points on the main asteroids of the belt of the same name between Mars and Jupiter, decides to go to the limits of the solar system where the parents of young Leonardo identify a mysterious object whose mass could be 10 times that of Jupiter but disappear into thin air in an attempt to track it down. When their only son grows up he decides to embark on the same career as them with the aim of finding them therefore he begins a hard two-year training in Sicily during which he will have to prove that he has what it takes to become an astronaut, on the island he will come across those who they will be part of his crew with whom he will form a strong bond of friendship, i.e. Orlando, Lucia, Chiara and Alice. He will also meet Sofia with whom he will embark on a love relationship, marrying her before leaving for his first mission. Looming over the success of his intentions is Pandora, a complex artificial intelligence used by the Space Agency to make life easier for astronauts but which in reality will turn out to be much more. The title of the work is "Odyssey - Part I" and represents the first part of a cycle of four novels of which Part I is set on Earth, Part II on the Moon and Mars, Part III in the belt of gas giants and part IV in the Kuiper belt. This Part I narrates the two years of training that aspiring astronauts must undergo before being able to travel among the stars, describes all the systems used for space travel and describes the first space mission that Leonardo and his companions will undertake around the Earth.
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