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January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination. But he will live....

Earth was never going back to normal. All that was left in the post-apocalyptic destruction were humans trying to survive and running from the aliens who had come to scavenge what was left. Raine had never been a particularly brave woman. She preferred staying at home, rather than making an effort to become hurt by a real relationship. She only managed to survive by being at the right place at the right time. Now, the other survivors in her group blame her for being a jinx for every catastrophe that has happened to them.

Earth Government turned soldiers into cyborgs to terraform Mars. After a decade of hard, lonely work they are little more than the machines as which they are treated—until the arrival of female settlers awakens feelings they have almost forgotten....

In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January’s life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger—a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January’s job choices, housing, and even transportation are dictated by this second-class status, and now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale is running on a platform that would make it all worse.

J-817 would never forgive himself for the terrible mistake he had made - a mistake which resulted not only in his conversion to a cyborg but caused the same fate for his young private. Determined to atone for his failings, he protects B-669 during the long hard years terraforming Mars and even agrees to try his hand at mining the new planet. Frantic to get away from Earth, Daisy seizes the opportunity to become part of the Martian mail order bride program, even though it means a dangerous new planet and an unknown husband.

W-246 is one of the last cyborgs sent to Mars to work on the terraforming project. While he doesn't remember how he became a cyborg, he has accepted his new role as a territorial judge...until he encounters Cherry. He knows he could never forget a woman like her - so why does she seem so familiar?

Jill was raised in a militia, but found the strength to break away. She hadn't expected that break would lead her to a life filled with supernatural friends and space battles, but she could handle anything thrown her way. Even the sexy alien she kept butting heads with.

In the bustling fishing town of Aeolis Port on terraformed Mars, humans and engineered creatures coexist, unaware of the alien presences among them. When the enigmatic pirate captain Zara betrays her crew, Rylia, a shape-shifting alien, narrowly escapes with her life and assumes the identity of a local human to evade capture.

XXIIe siècle. Ne cherchez plus l'amour : à votre majorité, la Science vous indique qui est votre âme sœur. Respecter la loi... ou écouter son cœur? 98,8%. Eliotte peine encore à y croire, mais les résultats de son test de compatibilité sont sans appel. L'État américain vient de décréter scientifiquement qu'Izaak Meeka est son âme sœur la plus pure. Celle avec laquelle elle devra se marier et emménager dans les prochaines semaines, alors même que son cœur n'a jamais battu que pour Ashton, le petit frère d'Izaak.

XXIIe siècle. Ne cherchez plus l'amour : à votre majorité, la Science vous indique qui est votre âme sœur. Défier toutes les règles... pour être libre d'aimer. Eliotte a fait son choix. Dorénavant, qu'importe ce que diront la Science ou le gouvernement, elle n'écoutera plus que son cœur, cet organe vital qui bat un peu plus fort chaque jour pour Izaak. Non pas car ils sont scientifiquement compatibles, mais parce qu'ils se sont choisis, l'un et l'autre. Désormais, Eliotte en est convaincue : l'amour ne peut être calculé, paramétré ni imposé. Et il est de son devoir de partager sa découverte avec le plus grand nombre.

Jack Daniels is an awkward topnotch programmer and hacker as well as the secret vampire-lifestyle blogger known as iByte. Becoming a vampire should have been the wildest thing to happen to her. But when a supposedly benign, pamphlet-bearing alien species makes first contact, something sends her vampire sense tingling.

Aurora (Rory) Espinoza is ready to pounce on any adventure, fight, or sexy times. With her handy throwing knives, her engineering and munitions expertise, and her secret shifting ability, she has never met a situation she couldn’t get out of. Therefore, stowing away on a ship headed into space was right up her alley. During her trek through the stars, who knew that keeping her secrets, her hands, and her heart to herself would prove the hardest part of her mission?

Twenty-eight-year-old Kyla Marshall has desires of advancing her career in public relations at all costs...until she ends up stumbling in on a special ops mission that takes her from her client’s lab in the year 2017 to AD 8 ancient Rome. After learning her new reality, she discovers that the team’s mission is to stop a biochemical scientist from unleashing a deadly virus on the unsuspecting first-century people in order to change history. As Kyla encounters hostility and strife on her journey, she is surprisingly protected by the team's leader, Capt. Christopher Eriksen.

Her world is in chaos. Irina Rivkin loves baking, family, bear-shifting, and Jewish holidays, but this Rosh Hashanah might be her last on Earth: Aliens have arrived. And when Irina starts falling for a Staraban warrior, things really get complicated. Let the honey and apples take you on a sweet hot ride.