A heart of gold belongs on the toilet seat. Glazed Neon is a masterfully written cyberpunk tragicomedy about the existence of and the concern with aesthetics, magic, males and females seen as having different natures, gods, induction of altered states, marriage, body adornment, murder, prohibition of some type of murder, kinship terms, numbers, cooking, private sex, names, dance, play, distinctions between right and wrong, nepotism, no prohibitions on any types of sex, empathy, reciprocity...

Trapped in her body, she is given a chance at a new life as a caretaker, but guarding horny superheroes loses its appeal quickly.Beatrix's world has been shrinking as her body slowly locks up into immobility and constant pain. A strange woman arrives at her door and offers her a chance for a body without pain and the form she had in her early twenties. The price of this miracle? Just her life and moving to an alien world as caretaker for a group of superheroes.The charm of ...

She had always wanted an adventure in the stars…After years of working for the Alien Immigration Office on Earth, Alyssa has finally been sent on her first assignment in space. But what's supposed to be a nice little peace mission soon turns into a nightmare – one where pirates might abduct her at any moment and she's assigned a lethally scary but oh, so sexy bodyguard!It doesn't help that the body he's supposed to guard always heats up in his p...

**The inspiration for Netflix blockbuster starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror.**In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech...

Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder...

She thought they were saving her life. She was wrong. Instead, Meredith Powell was kidnapped, taken aboard an alien spacecraft, and forced to prostitute herself to paying humanoid customers. But she had hope. She would only have to serve for two years, and then she would be returned to Earth.It was a life she had to learn and adjust to, until one paying customer took a special interest in her. A customer who had other plans for her, and none of them involved returning her to her ho...

An alien champion meets a nerdy and sweet girl, but they have to stop his father from stealing her home.Alien Warrior Brides is a series of standalone stories with a connected universe. Each book can be read separately. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Expect lots of steam.Zhanshi is a sector local legend with a short social attention span and a growing boredom with brainless, vapid women (who used to be fun). He's don...

A thief in the future has extraordinary complications during a burglary.

Trini Martinez never thought of herself as flaky. No matter the radius of the problem, she could be counted on to solve and understand it. But when tentacles burst out of the newest Post-Doc to join the lab, and she finds herself pulled into an intergalactic game of tug she begins to question her sanity. At least Nolan is there to rescue her. Friendly and charming, on top of being the hottest guy in a lab coat, he'd worked at her side for the past year.Trini assumed Nolan had no in...

THE PINKY BET EXCERPTFeaturing the world's first Interdimensional MotorcyclesAn action "set piece" from the novelThrill Kings: Fragmented SkyShort story length, with a beginning, middle, and an end.Setting Up This Excerpt:This scene begins at sunrise. Nonstop and Grace have just returned from a night where they ran from the Army, visited Hawaii with an alien, drove through the wild inter-dimension...

One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well."Cruise wildly imaginative waters where would-be fascist billionaires consort with female assassins, mothers are killed by the Khmer Rouge, plastic surgeons manipulate human DNA, bearded cult leaders levitate on the Tokyo subway, and a superpowerful artificial intelligence employs an irony filter." --TeleRead Review

Revenge of the robots in only 17 syllables!Droid makes sausagesSpicy new taste sensation.Hey! Where is the cat?Cyborgs, Androids. Drones. T-800. HAL 9000. R-4-P17. Fembots. Autobots. Robots are everywhere--and don't let them fool you. Even if they were made to sweep your floors, they won't be happy until they've left you in the dust.In Robot Haiku, readers learn the truth about the robots that inhabit our world. From ...