Mark Alders

Ely Nguyen is a cadet fresh out of the Academy and wide-eyed with enthusiasm. But he’s also alone. Sure, his work as a trainee engineer takes up most of his time, but what about when he’s on R & R? He hasn’t had a boyfriend since he left Mars some three months back. No one to even buy a drink for in one of the many clubs and pubs scattered about the starship Mandrake he’s been assigned to.

Sure, he’s got friends, but a man needs more than friends, especially after a long rotation of work.

Then, a chance encounter on a lower deck corridor sees to it that cadet scientist Emerson Sonfield catches Ely’s attention and he asks the man out for a drink. Will this be the start of something wonderful? Will duty get in the way of their fledgling relationship? Or will Ely ruin the chance of being with Emerson of his own accord, putting his foot firmly into his mouth before they even get to know one another?

The Brona are sentient humanoid aliens, man’s first contact, and at a technological level equivalent to our pre-industrial age. As a culture, the Brona offer no interest to humanity—that is, until it’s discovered the foreskins of male Brona secrete a substance that has miraculous curative properties for humans.

Aznan Calmere is a forerunner, a mercenary who is paid to obtain Brona foreskins no matter the cost. He’s paid well to do it, too. Trouble is, getting to Brona Major is hazardous. On his latest trip, Aznan avoids a near miss, crashing on a Moon of Brona. There he runs into Lunore, a male Brona who shows Aznan the real damage being done to the Brona people because of the foreskin harvesting by the forerunners.

When all is revealed, the Brona are not as simple as Aznan first thought. Will his new found respect lead to something unexpected? Will there be love? Or will there be war?

Love in all its naked glory.

Oblivion Falls is the solar system where the eternals have entered the human realm, bringing their homeworld, Parenthesis, a living crystal planet, with them. It is also Zane and Tink’s first destination after they have dropped off Jacob and Callum in the dragon realm.

Zane and Tink are armed only with their advanced ship. It has no weapons, but is able to travel close to the speed of light, realm jump and phase shift. They also have their love for each other.

But is that enough?

Can they succeed in sending Parenthesis back to where it came by re-opening the portal? Or is the task too great and the fate of all of humanity, past, present and future, doomed? Sure, striking at the eternals right on their doorstep before they advance to Earth sounds like a plan. But nothing is easy. The eternals are determined to get their food—humanity, itself.