Science Fiction {soft}

Rapunzel’s strange circumstances led to her being a housing for energy, her parentage made her a princess. With the fate of the next Xefar queen in her hands, Rapunzel must go on a journey with a strange Duke who’s interest in her hair sparks a reciprocal fascination. Arnolth is unlike any man she has ever spent time with…but that would make sense with her being raised underground in an ant colony.

A masked ball, an elegant gown, and an armed guard to keep her where the Overlord could find her. What a lovely event for Hellara. When her ship’s AI forces a landing on Priznik, Hellara knows that everything around her is about to change, possibly with devastating results. She is pampered, primped and produced in a ballroom with two dozen other women, waiting for a dance with the Overlord of Priznik. Three days of balls and events will occur before he makes his selection of a consort, but what Hellara sees in his eyes makes up her mind on him on day one. She sees behind the Mask of the Overlord in an instant, and now wants to see even more.

Skeeter needed sex and she would do whatever it took to get it. Seven Regen warriors are just what her hormones ordered. Blanca ‘Skeeter’ Snow has always known that this day would come. Her body’s pheromones cause disruptions on her ship and her captain banishes her until her cycle is over. She selects a moon as her haven of choice and a meteor field removes her options for landing. On the moon, seven Regens (the brothers of the new Consort of Priznik) rush to her crash and are swept into her situation and her arms as quickly as she can manage it. Her leave takes on a new urgency as she takes her lovers on one by one and several together.

Lara’s life has been all about the future of strangers, so when a man enters her life who is interested in her, he may claim the heart of the oracle. As a rare survivor of a devastating illness, Lara has fought to live only to end up in a coma on a strange world. Trapped in stasis, she is used as an Oracle by those seeking views of the future. When a man comes to her and asks her name, she is smitten and for the first time in decades, she begins to hope that someone somewhere wants her as she is. He proves his dedication and soon he will win the Heart of the Oracle.

Life as a Pet to an alien race is hard, but trying to remember who she truly is is worth her life. Pet has existed in a limbo of confinement and pampering as her owners use her for a symbol of their power. During an attack they eject her in a survival pod and she ends up on a habitable world, working to survive. When a group of men arrive and they seem to be looking for her, she fights the urge to run to them for safety, choosing to hide instead. They find her anyway and bring her to their ship, and that is when she finds out that her true identity is not Pet, but it will be found in a single drop of blood.  

Trading herself for her men was her duty, but helping a stranger with the breakout was pure pleasure. Stella has given her life to the Coalition, but her soul belongs to the men on her team. When they see something they shouldn’t, her men are locked in stasis while she is held hostage to keep the charade of their situation hidden. Her cooperation is the ransom to keep her men alive and when someone offers her an opportunity to rescue them, she would give anything to see them free. Anything.

Wimp or superhero? Victim or conqueror? Loser or sexual athlete? When the real world collides with the virtual, what’s a guy to do? Geeky Stanley longs to escape the dreary, bully-plagued reality that makes his daily life miserable. His only escape is the video arcade where he slides into virtual reality and morphs into Lex Caldar, superhero. When a new game arrives, Stanley accepts the challenge and pushes that reality to a new level—a level he may choose to inhabit forever.  

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?  

Dying in an act of vengeance should not have been the start of a new life, but Aura got a new beginning and the man time had chosen for her.

Sky lived a quiet life on Resku Station until the day her life ended at the hand of an invasion. She is forced into a life as a Nameless time traveller, and her companion guards her every move until Tavik realizes that the Orb of Time has a destiny planned for the Terran and if he wants to take part in it, he had better stay close. Knowing that she is the one destined for him, he plans to stay on top of the situation at every opportunity.  

Dodging trouble has never been Idara’s strong suit so when she is caught on her way out a window, it seems like just another day.

Beauty is not just skin deep.   Kellyn, a lynx shifter, has survived a terrible battle. Horribly disfigured, he arrives on a property in outback South Australia, his memory shattered, along with his beauty. All he knows is that the world on which he is trapped is not safe. He must hide from all humans—except one. Alexander, an artist recluse, has no time for most people, which is probably just as well, because the guy he rescues isn’t exactly human. Both men deny their immediate, mutual attraction. Alex doesn’t want his heart broken again and Kel believes he has nothing to offer—he’s just a cat with a scarred mind and body. But a cat has no chance when a human gets under his fur and when Alex tangles with a cat, it’s love at first lick.    

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.

This book contains a lonely huntress, a straight-laced enforcer and voyeurism in space.  Lexine Monroe has spent her life hiding her true nature from those around her. The preternatural strength and speed that sent her to the top of her field as a criminal enforcer have doomed her to a life alone. Now, she has to team up with bounty hunter Blane Sebastian, racing against the clock to rescue a kidnapped child due to be sold at auction on the Glory Dome space station. Six years earlier, Sebastian was Lexine’s teenage crush. Fortunately for her, she is long past the point where a hard body and a sexy smile will put butterflies in her belly.

This story has been previously published some years ago but has been edited and revised. Can Kate forgive Brad’s betrayal?  Kate is a research scientist who has perfected the cloning technique. She feels the government abuses her research and decides to end her career. Professor McLaughlin wants to clone Kate desperately so that he will have someone to carry on her research, but Kate refuses. Not even her husband Brad can convince her that he wants a child badly and that cloning isn’t such a bad idea. Brad’s longing for a child overpowers his sense of right and wrong and when McLaughlin offers a solution, he agrees to cooperate  

An agent of time with antlers and hooves, a dead Terran in need of a job and a timeline awry make walking for the dead seem easy.     Orphia has spent her life waiting for life to start. She ends up being a Walker for the Dead, and during a funeral reception, a dagger finds her. Waking in a bubble between time and space isn’t nearly as unsettling as the man who is holding her hands and helping her through the agony of reanimation.   Xeric is a Hirn and one of the Nameless. He is doomed to see his people living and thriving at all points in time, knowing that their death and extinction is inevitable. He bonds to Orphia the moment that he sees her, and at the moment of her death, he is there to catch her and carry her off to a new world with new challenges.   Who could resist a man who carries off their body to a world outside of time?

Kali has kept an open mind but now that a dead universe has moved into her body she is having second thoughts.   Kaliana has lived as a relay in a tank, processing data streams and having her personal thoughts as her own. When blowing her tank open is her last resort, Kali chooses death over whatever the kidnappers had planned. If she is going, she will take as many of them with her as she can. Odin has been a Nameless since the Orb chose the second generation and his duty is to retrieve the body of the Host. Her act of bravery touches him but when she floats out into space he has seconds to act.

Billie has worked for peace and harmony as an Enforcer, but she wants to kick the butt of the man who has the nerve to demand her as his own.   Billie first met the love of her life when she was working for the Alliance, but he transferred from her unit, and he was out of her life. Two years later, she is on an assignment to recruit more Enforcers of the Oefric species. Their instincts, shifting abilities and love of order make them ideal officers. Arcros knew that he could not remain in the same unit as his Terran. He wouldn’t be able to control himself if she was near him and that was a dereliction of duty he was not going to court. Three years later, his people finally admit that he has already chosen his mate and he is allowed to send for her. The Alliance wants twenty warriors in exchange for the woman, and Arcros believes that he is getting the best part of that deal.

A routine peacekeeping effort throws Lee into the path of werewolves and their Alpha who happens to be looking for a mate. Leeahan has spent her time as a badge, acting as peacekeeper, police, counsellor and confidant. Being alone on a shift is nothing new, but having twenty-six werewolves charging toward her town is something she wasn’t planning on. Facing the werewolves is one thing, her talent for ordering folks around sends more than half of them packing, but dealing with the others puts her life and her body in the hands of the Alpha. Ozwin was sure that his wolves would tear the badge apart, but he found a woman alone, clawed and bleeding, facing down the next generation of deadly farmers. Her wounds make her his problem, and her transformation into an Alpha makes her his destiny.

Sinder can spread confusion with a touch, but when she is kidnapped, poisoned and given over to the remains of a planet, she needs to re-evaluate her job vector.   Sinderella Baroque is a Retrieval Specialist for the Alliance. She is on a mission to save a seduced woman from an unsuitable marriage when she runs afoul of a race she was completely unaware of. They have an agenda and are taking a woman who meets their laundry list of requirements to their Avatar so that he can introduce her to the last remnant of a world long dead. When she meets the mind in the stone, it saves her from certain death as it seals her fate. With a living mind inside her own, Sinder is now stuck on the planet Crixox, living in the temple with the Avatar of the planet itself. Geor has wanted a companion for quite some time and Sinder meets all of his needs. Now, he will see if he can meet hers.