Showing results for "The Book of Summers" in Science Fiction

Sold into slavery as a child, Mari was raised on a vessel repair station, growing up to become a highly prized engineer. So she’s surprised when her owner not only grants her freedom, but finds her a paying job aboard the Vorge. Mari’s determined to impress her new captain and crewmates. It’s the only way she’ll remain free, safe from the hands of other slavers. But there seems no impressing Dovis, the ship’s head of security. He’s huge, hairy, scary, and seems to hate humans.

Watching his crewmates fall in love has left York craving a female of his own. That’s how he ends up being matched to a Parri female through a service to find bond mates. He’s excited until he actually meets her. Betrayed by her government in a bid for alien technology, poverty-stricken human Sara is doomed to be a prince’s sex toy, until she’s rescued on a planet that doesn’t take kindly to slavers. Suddenly free, she’s an outcast on her new home, treated with distrust...by everyone except a gorgeous, kind, huge blue alien. Too bad he’s getting married the next day.

Ten years ago, a deadly plague ravaged humanity. There were seven billion souls on our planet; now, there's just a handful. Our extinction event has come and gone, but a few of us did survive. We're the lucky ones, born with a rare genetic adaptation that gave us immunity to the plague. But the intervening decade had been brutal and unforgiving; so many more of us died.

Dating an alien was difficult enough when Carter didn’t know Allison’s counterpart, Larika, was in the custody of space cops. Yet even if it means risking his freedom and hers, Carter is determined to help the woman of his dreams rescue Larika and evade their alien hunters forever. But how?

Draygus tries to seduce a girl working at the space center to gain access. It goes almost as planned, except he falls for her. He obtains the access he needs but, in the process, he loses the love of the girl and this means more to him than his own safety. Now a life and death struggle against Palzu's men begins as well as the much harder fight to reclaim the love he has betrayed.