Science Fiction {soft}

A woman with a bad attitude, a ship with extreme patience and a Guardian who is rescued from a brothel by his client. Let the fun ensue. Kora was born broken. Her body cracked at the slightest touch and the Alliance offered her a chance at an actual life, with some conditions. Rebuilt, redesigned and bonded to a very patient ship, Kora flies from world to world picking up and dropping off whatever the Guardians need. Neuro has been working undercover in a brothel, gaining intel with pillow talk. Kora is sent in to recover him, and she does it with her own personal style. Once she has taken him to her ship, she has a problem. What does she do with him now? Odds are, he won’t like it.

Twenty-five years have passed since the Banarts and Hienials were defeated by the Goddess' army of Triads. Now the Lady Goddess has called upon Children of the Triads for help. Viktor d'Vrai, a Hienial-Halfling must find Ryo, the eldest surviving Hienial-Halfling, and deliver the Lady Goddess' warning. Adrift in space, his mission in jeopardy, Viktor thinks all is lost. But the Lady Goddess has plans, and nothing is truly left to fate. Three strangers are brought together--A Savari, A dragon princess, and a Hienial-Halfling. Can they see past the prejudices and fears of the past to form a powerful Triad and take the first step to ensure peace for the future or will twenty-five year old memories destroy their only chance at love?  

Kiri Learn and her adopted son Ryo escape their Hienial captors only to learn the Mother Goddess has plans for them. Drace Vanier, a Lioni Alpha and Fury, a Beariti shifter of the Great Black Bear Clan, know that Kiri is their mate. What they didn't know was what the Mother Goddess had planned for her. When Kiri reveals her special gift, and uses it to help their enemy, both men must come to terms with it. For only with their help, can Kiri survive the demands of her gift.  

It’s time for Laynee, the second witch of the Carrillian Coven, to call upon her mates. A Savari blood-drinker, a Tigerian Shapeshifter, and a High Priestess of Carrillia must forge an alliance if they are to thwart the Banart Army. Can a shy bookseller find the courage and strength to love two powerful men who have suffered at the hands of their enemies?

The Banart Army has infiltrated the galaxy, spreading their hate, brutalizing their victims. It’s up to the Mother Goddess to draw together an army of her own–an army of powerful Triads. Summoned by her Tigerian mates, Dax and Rage Gavaire, Minna Ailani completes the Mother Goddess’ latest Triad. Only after the three are mated will they be strong enough to find the traitor in their midst, but can they discover the Banart hiding among them before someone close to them dies?

A witch. A shifter. A blood-drinker. Three beings brought together by magic and destiny to prevent their people’s destruction. As they come together in love and need, they discover the secret to their enemy’s downfall.

Rachana Salura, a Carrillian Empath has no use for men. Her life is devoted to finding the Lost Temple of the Lady Goddess, and taking a mate-or two-is not in the cards for her. She casts the spell to bring her mates to her, knowing no one is nearby to hear her call... or so she thinks. Wray Navedis, a Lupin Chieften and Kel Galbar, a Tigerian Warrior are both responding to an SOS when they are transported off their ships. Now, not only do they find themselves with a mate they hadn't expected, they are drawn into a battle with the cruel Banart Army and Hienial Slavers. As the war between good and evil grows closer, the threat to nearby worlds increase. If they are to find the way to defeat their enemy, three strangers must form a bond not only with each other but with the other Triads, as well.

When the search for their mate leads Ryo of Kneese and Jered Hallen to Earth, they didn't expect to have to fight a war to win the hand of their mate Harlow. But when a female leader of the Hienial-Human clan living on earth refuses to give up control of her community, it's up to Harlow and her new mates to prove just how powerful the new triad could be and just why the Lady Goddess has chosen Ryo to lead his people all those years ago.

A hotshot pilot on a collision course with destiny… When Genevieve Dubois, Zeta Corp’s hot shot starship pilot, accepts a research mission aboard ZAC I to the mysterious planet Eos, she not only collides with her guilty past but with her own ultimate fantasy. Genevieve thinks she’s found paradise in the jungle planet of Eos and its people; only to discover that she has brought the seed of destruction that will destroy it. And Eos, whose steaming jungles harbour an eerie connection with Atlantis, is not the paradise she envisioned after all. When she is forced to journey through the perilous jungle to redeem herself and save the man she loves, its intoxicating breath threatens Genevieve’s very sanity with secrets not only of her guilty past but of ancient Earth.

Life is hard and unfair—the most adaptable can survive anywhere, even a born loser. Who said a loser has to be fair?   A remote villa at the sea is an interesting challenge for a skilled thief in the first place. But if the landlord belongs to a worldwide-operating crime syndicate, it’s not advisable to get caught. Sadly, Jo learns about this too late—such just happens to a loser. So she finds herself in a cell with a lot of time to contemplate her own life and how she arrived in her current situation. Will that give her a clue on how to escape?

Love comes in many forms.   In the not too distant future, the first batch of pleasure droids are created. They are extremely advanced and life-like automatons with positronic brains that can help them interact, and also learn. Their purpose is to give their masters pleasure in whatever form it takes. But what is a life of giving pleasure without receiving it? This is the story of how a pleasure droid named Horrow seeks companionship after he comes to realise there is more to life than being an object after his master had treated him ill since his purchase. Will Horrow find love? Or is love nothing but a dream, left for the fantasies of those who are desperate?

Harmony suffers regeneration on a world that should not exist and meets a man who defies impossibility to declare himself her match. Harmony enjoyed her life as a courier for the Alliance, but it all came to a halt when she was sucked into a storm of light and gas that her computer could not see. Agony is her final thought, but when she wakes again, she finds that her body has been recreated because the original…the less said the better. Nero has been working as a restorer for three hundred years on a world where the only new members of the population fall from the sky. He sees spirit in Harmony, and when she declares that she only wants him for his body, he is smitten. They face the stars that brought them together and work in their different ways to bring their community into harmony with a world as trapped as they are.

Dreaming of the perfect man takes a strange turn when she is forced to bring him to life.   Cera enjoys acting as a dispatcher for the Guardians. When five strangers come to her, brandishing an imperial writ that demands her transfer to Haloth, she is taken aback. When they transport her there without any kind of vehicle, she suspects that she is in a less-than-usual situation, and when she is handed over to wake an energy being, she knows it. Renn has come to physical form over a hundred times, called by a hundred different women. When Cera calls him, there is something new. She knows what she finds attractive, but gives him enough leeway to add a few bonuses of his own to his appearance. Between her mind and his body, they are going to make a helluva team.

Taken from battle and certain death, a woman who craves a fight wakes up trapped on an alien world with dark elves all around.   Kaia has lived to fight, to protect those who could not protect themselves. After a disastrous battle that left her nearly dead, she wakes to find herself on Ikanni with dark elves all around. Kaia is given an energy being to boost her acceptance into local society and the elf lord who says they are linked at a basic level will not let her out of his sight. Thaxis has been dreaming of the woman with chalky skin and blue and green hair. The moment he feels that she is in deadly danger, he risks his life to rescue her from certain destruction. How can a man reap the rewards of rescuing a damsel in distress when she is too wounded to see him? Self-control is all Thaxis knows, but why is it that it goes out the window when he deals with the moon-bright Terran?

Only the Guardians can release an imprisoned honour fencer, and only a Prince can break the bond that holds her.   Meena has found a place in the Nyal Imperium as an Honour Proxy. She fights duels for those who are less than skilled with a blade. When her latest client sets her up, she defeats her opponent, but he doesn’t take to losing. He has her imprisoned until she agrees to warm his bed. Prison is looking pretty good. Kebril knows what his mate looks like, and when she is brought to his world, he wants to pursue the attachment immediately. Knowing that it may wreck any chance to win her trust, he waits for her to come to him. He really hates to wait.  

Running toward a better option in life, a lioness finds herself right in the tiger’s clutches.   Lee was raised to be subservient, but her soul was screaming in agony with every moment in her household. Her mother helps her escape to the Crossroads the very night her father begins proceedings to sell Lee to one of his companions as third wife in a pride. She was unprepared for the dating scene and shocked by the mating scene at the Crossroads, but the moment she sees something wrong, her shock turns into action and she does what she has to do. James watched the lioness in his bar, but despite her body being exactly his type her shy demeanour is a turnoff. He wants a woman who can hold her own with him, a woman who can stand at his side, not behind him. He is convinced that she is too timid for him until she follows two thugs out into the night and claws them bloody before they can attack their vulnerable target. Watching her go from timid to ferocious, he has to reassess his first impression, and he has to admit, the claws are a bit of a turn on.

The snowy owl picks up a bear in the Crossroads bar, and both follow their instincts.   Ezmerelda has just suffered through two indignities. The first was her thirtieth birthday and the second was the lineup of suitors that her father brought along as guests to the party. Her friend Krisia offers her a chance to stop her family from fixing Ezzy up at every opportunity. With depressing honesty her friend tells her that she needs to go to the Shifter’s Crossroads and find herself a mate. The transporter sends her through the magical portal to the place where shifters go as a last resort when they can’t find a mate of their own. The Crossroads.  

Ariella, dragon princess and twin to Arabella, set out with the other Children of the Triads, not only in search of Ryo's lost people, but in hopes of finding a mate or mates for herself. Little did she know that a mission on her brother-in-law's home planet would bring her face to face with the two men that were meant to be hers. But can she accept that Demit and Xymus are already mated--to each other and will they have room in their hearts and accept her as their third?

Jerineau Arden is an Amazonian Warrior searching for a planet to call home for her all-female crew. When her ship crash lands on an alien planet, she doesn't expect to find a mate, never mind three. With matings long since forgotten, it takes three very determined men to convince this Amazonian woman that taking a mate is more than just sex for procreation. And when an enemy thought long-defeated returns, no one is prepared for the outcome.  

A cyborg Terran, a star ship and a Guardian with more than protection on his mind make for a peculiar union that grows stronger with time. Gadget enjoys being a member of Guardian Transport, but when her mission is changed from transport to diplomatic escort, she adapts quickly. She knows that the Guardian coming on board is her destiny, but how long can she make him wait to prove it? Shatter has been waiting for his Terran, and now that he is on her ship, he has no inclination to do anything other than sway her to his way of thinking. The Dark Fairy is a symbiotic ship, and knowing that her pilot has a mate, she does everything she can to put the two together, but what do ships know about mating?