A renowned tracker throughout the galaxy, Raven reluctantly agrees to help Beckett MacLeod find his runaway nine-year-old daughter, even though he’s from a backward planet that denies the advances of technology. The task turns out to be much more trouble than she expected. In addition to almost destroying her spaceship, fighting privateers, and being forced to seek the one man she never wanted to encounter again, Raven finds herself drawn to Beckett and his primitive mindset. If she isn’t careful, they’ll all end up dead.
When Beckett MacLeod’s young daughter sneaks away from home to search for the legendary Sword of MacLeod, Beckett is forced to leave his home world for the first time to search for his missing child. Plunged into a universe whose modern technology is foreign to him, he hires a tracker to locate his run-away daughter.
Raven accepts the assignment because she knows no mere child could elude her expert abilities for long. Wrong. As they follow the child’s trail, Raven and Beckett stumble into a maelstrom of trouble: laser battles, hostile alien worlds and of course, deadly space pirates. And worst of all?
In the midst of all the danger, Raven finds herself falling in love with Beckett. How can she consider loving a man who comes from such a technologically backwards world? They have nothing in common. They can’t even agree on basic concepts. Yet when he kisses her, all she can think about what it would feel like to stay in his arms forever. Love and duty clash like flint and steel, creating sparks that ignite the soul. All this for the sake of a magical sword that fuels one young girl’s dreams…
Originally published by Dorchester Publishing
Why Did I Write This Book?
Beckett MacLeod was first created during a writing exercise at a weekend creativity session. We were given the name ‘Baku’ and told to write while listening to an African melody. Everyone wrote about a man dancing in the jungle, but that’s not what I saw. Instead, I pictured the bar from Star Wars with a man looking for someone. He’s out of place but determined and a definite hero.
From that one page beginning, Beckett MacLeod came to life.Needing a reason for him to be looking for someone, I had his daughter disappear and thus the search for the Sword of MacLeod was on. And, of course, I had to have the person Beckett was looking for. Who else but Raven, a female Han Solo,would do? A modern woman and an old-fashioned man.
I like to call Sword of MacLeod, “the Highlander meets Star Wars.” It has adventure, romance,action, space battles and wonderful characters that I hated to leave.
The hero came by his name of Beckett in tribute to Sam Beckett,the character played by Scott Bakkula in Quantum Leap, who was the inspiration for Beckett.
