Aubrey struggles to get herself to safety. Her sister and her sister's two boyfriends tied her up and left her for dead. Aubrey doesn't follow her sister's directions and makes it to the transport spot, registers, and gets her injuries healed in the repair unit. That is where things take a turn.A small repair on her hand ends with her locked in the machine for hours while it runs design protocols that cause confusion and panic in the medical team. When the unit opens, she's taller,...

Rowan has two people in her life affected by the curse that makes folks invisible and steals the memory of them. The first is in desperate need of curse-breaking as she is pregnant, and time is a factor. Freeing her is a priority, and keeping her lover at bay is Rowan's assignment.When Mell is freed, Rowan asks for help for her Aunt Aspen, who physically removed her curse band and immediately dissipated. Rowan kept her close to home, but it has been an effort, and she is getting ti...

Hazel has tried just to follow the family path and do what was asked of her. Her work in the financial industry has her pegged as an analyst and a notary for the company contracts. She has one secret she holds for herself, which is a small matter that gives her a reason to keep going.A summons, a curse, and a blue-skinned elf tangle themselves into the worst day ever. She runs to a friend to get help with the curse, and her friend has to go to higher magic, the elf clan leader. He j...

Hecate knew she was never supposed to walk in the world. She hadn’t been an afterthought. She was an act of desperation.Growing up in a small town was rough, but having her family pretend that she didn’t see ghosts made things harder. As soon as she had enough money, she bought a place out of town and got to work.All day, every day, she had her phone on, and she waited for the call that would summon her to someone whose deceased loved one was draining them or terrifying the...

Harka signed up for the monitor program to get money for a new business. She wants to open a small shop but will have to hire help. Her people skills are crappy.Her assignment is to go into a man’s mind and keep him distracted until he is healed from a life-threatening plague. She never imagined what she was walking into.Derin has been asleep for centuries, content to reread the books and reports he archived in his life before the Edinar plague. When the stranger drops in o...

Ted makes her living by creating apps for businesses who need something specific. She keeps in constant communication with the businesses she works for one precise reason: the moment she is out of sight, they forget she ever existed. It has been difficult to live with, but she has worked with a number of her family members, who recognize her the moment they see her and forget her when she turns a corner.She's working for her cousin Sabin when he and Nora finally take steps to conta...

Annabelle Maddox had been one of the best pilots in the Alliance. Being wired directly to her ship had hampered her social life, but she had been content. An attack on a space station left her nerves damaged beyond repair, she needed a place with no electrical tech to live, so her friends pulled some strings and made it happen for her. Avari was a peaceful and tranquil world, the inhabitants friendly and helpful. Anna is mightily impressed with one in particular, and he with her. But a mor...

Tales of the Citadel Bundle 2When talents emerge without training or focus, they can be recruited to a place where they can learn how to control what rises and roars inside them. They can join the Citadel.Scattered throughout the sector, the Citadels are a place for learning and the exchange of skills and information. Learning at a Citadel isn't free, but if it is needed, skills can be exchanged for education. From the psychic to the elemental...all are welcome.Bund...

Rache is having a fun night out at a dance club when she meets a man with dark eyes and smooth moves... and then she meets her ex-friend. Being friend-zoned that hard leaves a big mark, but she can still dance.The next day, she gets a call from her friend Eden, and Eden has a plan. She is going to deliver the surrogate child that she is carrying and make sure that it's legally with its parents, so her brother can't sell it to the highest bidder. It isn't the first child that he has...

After dealing with an assaulted escort, Keska tries to offer her an option that isn't her day job. She was the original escort when they tried to work the bugs out of the system. Her activation is to invent, and the mask design was her original idea.Dealing with trying to entertain Jienne is one thing, but finding out that her relationship with Nelith is now official sends Keska spinning. Add that to her daughter and ex-patron coming back into town, and she is fighting to organize ...

Hellebore wants some time off from the singing, from being pressured to perform. When she takes off in the beginning of December, she is shocked to find her normal portal turning into a one-way trip into a prison.With her head a bloody mess, she is taken to the doctor who treats her wounds with a confident touch. She gets the briefing on the prison, but one tiny detail is left out. Their prison is a holding area for a Christmas detachment.All eight men are being held for cr...

Bethany has spent her life running from her birth family. They summoned a star and expected her to gleam with power. She still registered as magical, but they decided that if she wasn't manifesting, they would get the power out of the next generation, and they attempted an arranged marriage. She ran. She has been running ever since.Finding a job was a trick that she had to figure out, but once she learned how to get past the resume and first scan, she was in. Understanding what peo...