Not exactly love at first byte.Simon Rayner doesn’t have a lot that’s real. His tech job is a hobby to bolster what he gets from Basic. His housing got assigned when he and his roommate lied about their engagement. Even his body talks to him through sensor lace and microchips. So when Simon finds part of an android in a recycling pod, he’s expecting the AI inside to be as artificial as everything else.David is a head, at the moment. He’s not sure what happened to his body, ...

This deal comes with unspoken clauses.Dominic Blackburn has a job no sane person wants: he makes things quit going bump in the night. Unfortunately, some monsters bump a little too hard for one man. In desperate need of backup, he buys the (suspiciously cheap) contract of an indentured—and gorgeous—man named Micah.Micah’s paperwork says he’s a fighter, and he is. Kind of. He’d rather take a beating than dole one out. Good thing plenty of people are willing to pay for that. ...

Sometimes people are more monstrous than the monsters.Micah and Dominic have a new roommate. Gestalt—the last survivor of the Hellfires’ desperate attempt to cover their tracks—has the wings of a raven and the personality of a feral cat. Powerful magic binds him, with no counterspell to be found. Gestalt would never ask Dominic or Micah for help, if the life force shared through their psychic link weren’t the only thing keeping him alive. That said, he finds some of the gl...

Power opens all doors. Some should stay closed.Adam Slate sees something other humans can’t: Connections, all around him. People, places, relationships, possessions, all as clear as letters on a page. But seeing the web makes it too easy to pull the strands, and even his riskier machinations—an illegal slave trade for one, and a gathering of dark magicians, for another—are growing boring. That is, until he runs across a slave with a connection he can’t see.Everybod...