Chasing Sisyphus [The Basilica Conspiracy] by J.L. Peridot

Born and bred in Basilica, he does his part to keep his city clean. Trouble is, her line of work’s not exactly legal, and she’s barely staying ahead of the cops who want her target, too.ĭetective Rhys Carver may be a little unorthodox, but he’s a good cop. With the reward, she can pay for her brother’s surgery and finally get out of Basilica City.

Thank you, Lyndi, for having me on your blog! ❤️ Chasing Sisyphus by JL Peridotīounty hunter Adria Yuan is hot on the trail of her final hit: a notorious hacker wanted by the city’s elite.

Subscribe to JL’s mailing list for periodic updates, teasers, free reads and banter. Her 2017 debut novel, Chasing Sisyphus, is an action-adventure romantic suspense about a bounty hunter with a heart and the cop who stole it from her. JL Peridot writes futuristic love stories and more from a tiny apartment in present-day Western Australia. Whether in space, on a distant planet, or aboard an incomprehensibly decked-out spaceship, sci-fi love stories are my favourite way to explore our humanity within the context of a mysterious and evolving world. To deny that we’re already living and falling in love within a sci-fi universe (of sorts) is to take for granted the journey mankind has been on since the dawn of time. The modern world is full of technology and it’s changing all the time. Phase-shifted, perhaps, and detailed a bit differently, but ours nonetheless. Sometimes they ask, why sci-fi? If it’s a human story you’re telling, why is it necessary to put it in a science fiction world? But to me, that’s like asking why anyone should tell a story at all. Here we are in this otherworldly place in a time and universe we can’t quite fathom, and yet this universal, eternal experience of love still binds us to each other and makes us who we are. But by the end of the book, I found it powerful enough to rival some of the best love stories I’ve ever read. It’s odd, sure, and not the usual romance by any stretch (whether you’d call it a “happily ever after” is questionable). Corey’s Leviathan Wakes, between Detective Miller and Julie Mao, comes to mind as well. The tragically satisfying love story in James S.A.

That maybe-but-not-quite second chance romance opportunity adds a spicy and relatable flavour to the challenges faced when exploring the boundaries of technology and humanity. For example, the simmering tension between Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki) and Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) in The Orville. These labels would be wildly inaccurate, of course, but stereotypes are stereotypes and they take a long time to change.īut I love a good love story in a sci-fi setting. I’ve often wondered if it may have something to do with science fiction sometimes being thought of as a “boys’ genre”, where romance is a “girls’ genre”. When I tell people I write sci-fi romance, they mostly look at me confused. Welcome Lyndi’s Adventurous Friend JL Peridot!

Chasing Sisyphus [The Basilica Conspiracy] by J.L. Peridot