Laika...

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>True love... is magical...</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Laika... A Love Story</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a steamy suspense filled romance novel that is set in the middle of one of history's most important events.</span></p><p><br></p><p>This historical fiction follows <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ayana Kenes</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a peasant girl from Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union who has unexpectedly risen to the top of the Soviet Space program. It is the dawn of the Space Race in 1957 and the Russians are in a race with the Americans.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Ayana is tasked with helping to rush Laika to become the first dog to orbit the Earth. But Ayana is distracted by a quirky artistic lab technician <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nikolai Yinski</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and his affection for Laika and the other dogs in the program. Nikolai is a strapping Bohemian type and the complete opposite of the straight-laced scientific Ayana.</span></p>