"Blood, Oil and Love (Combined Operations #2)" by Dorothy Grant
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Oil-Love-Combined-Operations/dp/B09GD38N86

Book number two of a four book science fiction tactical romance series.
I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade
paperback self published by the author in 2021 that I bought on Amazon
in 2026. I have purchased the following two books in the series.

On a far off colony world far in the distant future, the Federation and
the Imperium are fighting clandestine battles in and around many of
their client states. The usual problem is resources and land snatching.
The terraforming of the planet 600 years before was never completed
and people are needing more and more resources such as hydrocarbons and
food.

"Lizzes Olsen is a newly minted petrogeologist researching the untapped potential of places on her planet even terraforming overlooked.
Unfortunately, the site she's found is deep in enemy-occupied territory.
The same enemy is funding the radical eco-terrorism that turned her university toxic, and training terrorists to kill the Empire's
geophysicists and geologists. Between bombings at home and being hunted abroad, Lizzes' career, and her life, are in danger."

The story is very fast paced and the characters are extremely likable.
The history of the colony world and the various political entities is
not explained very well but that was not necessary for the story to be good.

The author's husband has a very active website where he promotes his
books and her books at:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 stars out of 5 stars (423 reviews)

Lynn


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