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...

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...

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 ...

Estelle is a logistical expert, show her a problem and she can solve it. When she is drugged and enslaved, she looks for a way out, sending messages with every outgoing slave and hoping that one will get her plan to the Alliance in time. The escape is on, but she has been shackled to her breeding partner that very evening, linked by a chain they lead the escape until one partner goes on alone. Survivors are offered a place on an Oefric colony world. The shape shifters have a separate town ...

Nora was an excellent administrative assistant until the day a business associate of her boss made an aggressive pass. She tells her boss, and he tells her to thicken her skin, having heard the other male's version of the event. She can toughen up or quit. She chooses the option that will stop the pain of the dismissal.Sabin is shocked when he finds out she is leaving, and he's devastated when he learns that it is her last day. He had enjoyed having her next to him, breathing in her...

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...

A night at the bar changes Max's life, and changes her from human to an Abomination, even for vampires.Max just wanted to have a night out with her cousin and go home. As a plus sized lass, she didn't fit in amongst the tiny blonde gazelles, but protecting her cousin from a perv in the alley changed her fate. In a moment of self-preservation when a man started chewing on her neck, she bit the hand over her mouth, setting a paranormal chemical reaction into play. Now that she is inf...

Family tradition is important to Arabel Marx. Every year she comes to her cousin's pub to bless the building against violence under the roof. This year, as she dances her blessing and calls the wild magic, she has an audience. Her cousin's husband has invited their new partner to watch the blessing and this shifter likes what he sees. Zenner is a dragon with a secret. Female dragons are fine, but they are all pull my tail, and Zen likes to play gently with his lovers. Watching Arabel dance...

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...

Sarah Marks made her living on archaeological digs for the Alliance. Going to the lost planet of Admar is an honor that puzzles her. Usually a more experienced Reader would be chosen. Her Terran heritage has been a hindrance to her until now, but that is about to change.Arriving on Admar, she finds that she has the magic touch, and that some of that magic is waiting to touch her back.Demetrius has been waiting over a thousand years for a human to arrive and wake him. He is extremely please...

Born William the Third had never been her favourite part of the family inheritance. When her grandfather passes away on the inventor hub of Bellen, she leaves and heads for the stars. There is no one left to miss her or worry over her. Well, no one she is related to.She takes the shuttle and the small warship she has been given and heads to the stars with a few possible locations in mind. While travelling, she changes her name to Trin and goes looking for a place to call home. Thin...

Haley is on her second week of a file-sort contract. She’s cleared to work with military records and has been slogging through years of research on artifacts that are only referred to vaguely. She is looking through a file and finds a piece of jewellery in the file with a lot of notes. She grabs the file and the bracelet and slips down the servants’ stairs to hand them off to the researchers in the basement, and that is where things go wrong.The world is in danger. A rift of tempor...