title: Losing Mars: Book Three in The Saving Mars Series (Volume 3)
author:  Cidney Swanson 
description: Cidney Swanson is a full-time writer of Young Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy including The Rippler Trilogy and The Saving Mars Series. SAVING MARS was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012. When she's not writing, Cidney is distracted by shiny things such as books with raised foil on the covers, cleverly packaged bars of chocolate, or stars set against an inky night sky. She lives in rainy Eugene, Oregon with her family.
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  Sold to Mars
  
  McKayla Schutt
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sold to Mars is dedicated to Summer Ross. She’s an awesome editor and friend
  and I wouldn’t have gotten so far if it wasn’t for her. Even though you didn’t
  personally edit this one, you helped me achieve so much.
  
  Sold to Mars
  
  McKayla Schutt
  
  Published by McKayla Schutt, 2019.
  
  While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the
  publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages
  resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
  
  SOLD TO MARS
  
  First edition. May 20, 2019.
  
  Copyright © 2019 McKayla Schutt.
  
  Written by McKayla Schutt.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  Avril
  
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  Anger and frustration rolled through Avril and raced through her bloodstream.
  She’d spent days traveling, and now she was stuck in dirty clothes, being
  presented to the current Lord Alpha of Mars, as if she was going to be the
  next horse he’d ride. He sat upon a red throne, his ice-blue skin a sh