Introduction:

This story is about a man who lived on Mars in 2097. Zeke was not ordinary; he was gifted with unusual powers. His aim in life was to improve the lives of his family, friends, fellow Martians, and even Earthlings. If he had a little excitement along the way, that was just a bonus.

Copyright:

Copyright © 2024 Kris Me - All rights are reserved.

This story is the work of Kris Me. Before you copy more than one page or ten percent of the content, you must contact me as per the Copyright Act 1968, Australia.

This is the second book:

This story is to be read after Dusty: 1 Cop’s Life. DON’T read the original Dusty: #2 The next Mission until its name is changed and has been reloaded as Book 3, as I found it has serious timeline issues, and I am currently fixing it.

It is best to read the books in sequence. Some references to events or information about a character, place or event might not be explained fully if mentioned or introduced in a previous book.

The Dusty Series is part of the Keltrian Universe. Chronologically, this story starts after Delta and Amity. It can be read as a separate entity to those series’ since it centres around a different planet and solar system.

However, there are links to events and characters who first appear in the Delta series, the Amity series, and the stand-alone story, At a Price. If you have read those books, you will have better foreknowledge if some of the background information isn’t repeated in this book.

Declaration:

~~ Adult Themes ~~

This book is part of an erotica science fiction series. It is NOT recommended for people under the legal age to access such stories, depending on the reader’s country of origin.

The books may contain what some people consider vulgar language, references to religious icons, violence, coercion, murder, and-or rape scenes. Some scenes may describe intimate heterosexual, bisexual, same-sex and-or group sexual activities.

This book DOES NOT contain descriptive scenes of bestiality nor coitus between humanoids closely related by blood.

Editing:

If you find any of my assumptions fabricated, I would like to remind you this is a fictional story, and I have probably taken liberties with reality as you know it. The humanoids in this story are not based on anyone I know or have read about.

Australian-based dictionaries were used for reference, and Grammarly was used as part of the editing suite. The story was written in Microsoft Word.

If you find grammatical or spelling errors, they are not the fault of my editor or proof readers who did try to fix my work. However, I do tend to fiddle around after the fact, so all errors are my own.

If my Australian colloquialisms or terms need clarification, or you just wish to correspond, I’m more than happy to answer your emails. You can send them to: kris.me2@inorbit.com

The Wiki:

https://keltria.fandom.com/wiki/

The Wiki contains information about the Keltrian people, wizards, magical items, colloquialisms and adapted words that have been created for this universe. Some maps, character lists and other information may relate to this book.

Did You Know:

Bickies – cookies in the USA

Bingle – generally used to describe an accident involving a vehicle

Budgie smugglers – male swimwear also known as dick-togs or Speedos

Buggies – four-wheeled vehicles with rollbars but no roof or full doors; some have a version of a solar-panel added onto the top of the rollbars

ESC – Earth Space Co-ordinators (Control)

Emu – an Airbus that seats twenty-eight people. They were used for flights of short duration, less than two hours (It is also a very large flightless bird in Australia that runs fast, and the dumb birds like to play chicken with traffic)

Esky – portable cooler for beer and whatever, used for picnics and camping

Delta Pavonis – star system where some of the Keltrians live on the planets Utopia and Harmony. Ruled by Queen Wizard Lee Watson

Dust-up – a fight

Fat-attack – go ballistic, rant, rave and be generally upset

Greyhound – an Airbus that seats sixty comfortably in fifteen rows of four seats. They only need short runways, and they can fly fast at high altitudes

Gunna – going to

Gonna – dying or dead

Harmony – a planet that people from Earth are colonising, but under strict rules imposed by Queen Wizard Lee due to some of the races from Utopia also living there

Hopper – Atmospheric flying version of a motorcycle with fans for flight and wheels for ground use

Kinda – kind of

Lanky – a type of horse

Linger – invented in 2070; Lingers have electric motor-driven fans that provide levitation. They have a set of small wheels for parking or slower driving on land, making them an all-terrain vehicle for flying at altitudes restricted to less than 10m on a 1g planet.

Lucked in – got lucky

Lucked out – out of luck

Mad or Minder – a multi-application device worn on the wrist, replaces watches and mobile phones

MC sheets – Martian crystalline sheets used as screens on minders and starships

Medi-vac – Flying version of an ambulance that can go higher than 10m but less than 20m for clear travel

Ozlium – Stronger and lighter than titanium, has high radiation and thermal reflection capabilities and can withstand extremely high-velocity impacts

Oznglass – Transparent in low light levels, as light increases, it darkens to reflect the excess light and most other undesirable radiation. A variant of Ozlium with similar thermal properties and strengths

Padz – Personal Application Device, Zeke’s version of a flexipad – Z.Crystal

Pash – passionate kissing