Publisher's Synopsis
Collecting 2 dinosaur pulp stories for the twenty-first century. Deities of a Dinosaur World: Assassin, spy, smuggler; Matthew Redfern has been many things for his government. Sent into the quarantined dinosaur world, Redfern discovers a primitive, yet obnoxiously sassy girl named Cara. Enduring her coming of age trial, Cara takes him back to her village as a deity. But Redfern's begins to discover anachronisms within the village he soon realises that sometimes people are only as primitive as they want to seem. A no-nonsense assassin, Redfern cannot understand his constant frustration around the girl, especially since all they do together is argue. Married to his job and dead to emotion, Redfern fights the possibility that he might be falling in love and that the primitive dinosaur world might be the perfect place for his own coming of age trial. Awfully Wedded Strife: In an attempt to save their failing marriage, Gideon and Eloise Watson take a make or break weekend on the quarantined dinosaur world of Ceres. With the wildlife far more vicious than either anticipated, they are soon separated, but find they do not have to face the violent world alone. While Eloise falls foul of an escaped convict calling himself Kinslayer, Gideon is approached by Nuala, a woman dispatched to return Kinslayer to his cell. With their marriage collapsing, husband and wife find it very difficult to remember they are on Ceres to repair their marriage, and not to seek their thrills from these unexpected sources.
