**Find the elf King or burn....It's a pity he's only a legend. Right?**Ora has been a nomadic warrior and 'messenger-man' in the High North all her life.But she's honour bound to settle in a foreign town with a very different culture. There, not a soul believes in warrior women, their leadership or authority.Yet when the fires start -- burning unchecked -- and assassins hunt in the halls of the Council, she's among the first to act. Ora stops a killer and is...

Discover the power of 1-Ocean.Zoey’s used to being alone, struggling to keep the family home and make ends meet. She’s never had a real role in her mother’s wealthy family. Yet when her great aunt, A.I. pioneer Katherine Cardinal, passes away Zoey is shipped a stunning prototype Cardinal Machine. An android called 1-Ocean.Her P.I. instincts see a way to make easy money using 1-Ocean to catch bail jumpers. But her biggest job goes sideways when her target is...

The prototype android left to Zoey Collins turned out to be precisely the 'hotshot' Cardinal Machines lawyers described, when they tried to persuade her to sign away her rights to him. With Cardinal Machines like Ocean harvesting mineral-rich asteroids and terraforming the moon, Zoey sent Ocean where he could do the most good: back to the LAPD SWAT team and the FBI. Why would she check with Ocean about that?But when the luminary suddenly begins to rebel, it's time to ride to the re...

During a stolen night out with Ocean, calamity strikes, and the shooter is inexorable, as only a robot could be. He's gunned down by Zoey's C001-Oisín prototype law enforcement android, Ocean. But the damage is done to humans and androids alike. People lie crumpled and extinguished all around her, and there's never been an android shooter in the history of artificial intelligence. This kind of violence? It flies in the face of programming. It's not supposed to happen. And... it's suspiciou...

**A Morgwn warship arrives in Bridges, bringing whispers with it.Ora Buckmaster knows the town Council must keep their defection from Morgwn under wraps or else.But the town has a powerful ally.**The Lock-Maker King rules the North with his mystical powers. He brings such fertility to the land that the town is growing rich. As a result, Bridges is unwilling to give up their strange ruler.But the ship's captain wants to meet with the Morgwn Town Master urgent...

**She lost him with a word.The King's magic vanished in the mist.**Ora tumbles back into the life of a settled townswoman. Whatever her feelings, the snow is finally melting... and crime is booming.She turns her eyes to the mountains and spots smoke rising from the Blue Vaults: the home of the elves known as Fates.The Fates are true Strangers to mankind and none are more perilous than the King. Would criminals dare strike at them? And are those sometime alli...

**Ora wants no part of it.But once the Fates know a thing, it is known for all time.**Still, the Lock-Maker King and Lord Eldeghel speak of a new destiny that involves her. However, for Ora becoming a warrioress and Scinan Chief has long been enough of an achievement.When she withdraws to the solace of the wild, that's where the first arrow falls.She's spared when a Fate sacrifices himself in her place, and it's in her scramble to save him that Ora first mar...

Candy MacCann, party animal!Said no one. Ever.Still, when one of Candy's wealthiest classmates throws her annual Christmas party it's just too good an invitation to pass up. Ivy's guests are ready to paint the town red (and green!), and there's sure to be gift-giving, egg-nogging, and a heated pool-party under the winter sky.The food?! Everyone knows the food at Ivy's to-dos is to die for! And when a secretive band of armed stranger...

During a stolen night out with Ocean, calamity strikes, and the shooter is inexorable, as only a robot could be. He's gunned down by Zoey's C001-Oisín prototype law enforcement android, Ocean. But the damage is done to humans and androids alike. People lie crumpled and extinguished all around her, and there's never been an android shooter in the history of artificial intelligence. This kind of violence? It flies in the face of programming. It's not supposed to happen. And... it's suspiciou...

The torch has been passed at lofty Cardinal Machines. Rene and Clary Cardinal's attempted theft of C001-Oisin unit, foiled. And Zoey Collins is back from Soleil Moon Base. Finally, she can reunite with her android again. Last time she saw him, he was badly injured. Now? Ocean's fully restored, and as bright and beautiful as ever. He's a sight for sore eyes, which presents its own problems.Easing back into her life is impossible with Noah feeling the heat of his impending court date...

Zoey Collins, born into the preeminent Cardinal family as Katherine Cardinal, is settled and happy with her life private investigating and bagging bail-jumpers. Recent edition to that routine, Cardinal Machines law enforcement android model C001-Oisín -- Ocean -- blends as well into the mix as she does into his occasional S.W.A.T. team and F.B.I. assists. For the first time, she's starting to feel like she has a partner in crime. And it's hard to resist making her beautiful prototype a pas...

Zoey has avoided the powerful magnates in the Cardinal family for decades. Her life as a Private Investigator has no contact with theirs, and the formidable Cardinals turned their backs on her long ago. But you don't walk away from a legacy that easily. Zoey's late Great Aunt Katherine, the woman responsible for giving Zoey her beloved C001-Oisín, Ocean, and influential C.E.O. of Cardinal Machines, also decided that Zoey would attend Cardinal Summit. And Zoey knows she has to go, too. The ...