Freedom to use her power has finally come, but the ball of mist Kiiki is partnered with causes a riot in her new reality. Kiiki has spent ten years in the Dome, the first to be dumped there when she was fourteen. Now, the Citadel is offering her a chance to get out and she is not hesitating. Her family will keep, she needs out NOW. Harken is a cloud-formed Nishan and Kiiki’s new partner. How can she trust a man who can choose any shape he wishes on a world where they want her to use her power talent for hours a day? Her attraction to her strange companion grows with his appreciation of her skills. By the end of the assignment, she is incomplete without him, and he is obsessed with protecting her. Her injuries have occurred because of the nature of her talent, and there is nothing more frustrating than a protector who cannot protect his charge from herself.

Kyda has found a balance in her life. She has a job, her brother is a defender for Aksalla, and her asylum paperwork is in order. When a tweaked-out client comes into the coffee shop where she works, the slightest sound-produced rage in the overpowered active and Kyda ends up with life-threatening injuries and begging whatever deities there are that her blood remains in her body. Her blood kills.Ados hears that his picnic date has suffered an injury, and their date is postponed. His work partner is notified that his sister has suffered a traumatic injury, and he needs to go to her side as she refuses to let the medics help.Her repair gets back on track, and she is content to let the lab take care of her until agents of her previous government come looking for her and attempt to blow up the lab in the process.Kynor talks to Ados about his sister, and Ados mentions his escort. They realize they are talking about the same woman, and she needs to be safe. Ados...

Iscorabella was part of the entertainment at a wedding, and she found herself in the arms of an orc by the end of the night. Their encounter went well, and she left him in the early morning to go and get some breakfast.She didn't know he had a stalker. She didn't know she was armed, and she found out her car wasn't bulletproof. She called for help and waited for the help that was going to arrive from different directions.Never felt her sister's injuries and got on her motorcycle to get to her family as fast as possible. She got the information she needed and went on the hunt. That was what she did, and she was good at it. She found the woman's father, made sure he knew she was serious, and then used the local laws to work out some of her family vengeance rage. After that, she met the speaker, and he looked at her like her leather was the only thing stopping him from fascinating things.Time would tell.

Niiva used to be a farmer's daughter with every stereotype that went along with it. Her hormones raged out of control, and her body usually followed.Now, she is on Imrahl, one of thousands of humans abducted to work with the Rrassic in their war efforts, and she has been kept away from the eligible warriors in a bid to keep her doing what she does best, farming.One night after working late on a shipment, she finds herself facing a drunk human and a few of the leonine Regiz-Rrassic. They mistake her for a male and begin to get aggressive when another of their kind steps in to break it up. Argo takes notice of her, and it spells the end of her life as a harvester and a fast track into the Breeder compound.Resistance is no longer a priority.

Haley is a temp on a short-term contract. It turns into an experiment and a fight for the survival of her world. Haley is in 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 temporally stuck, highly radioactive marauders manage to saw through the space between worlds every six centuries. They are due any day now, and the military and family responsible for the defense are struggling to find the means to unlock the weapons they need. The original defenders never leave any clues, just the vague weapons. Haley’s attempt to sneak the file into the lab is thwarted when a test subject is turned to ash. She’s caught, and she’s next.

Orion and the scorpion is a story everyone knows, but Stinger has no interest in killing the man who helps her manage a wave of lust. He might be just what she’s looking for.

Xeva wakes with a splitting headache in a strange bed with warm air and bright light around her. She is told that she is recovering and just has to learn to move again.Jeron is there, and she is in his mother's house. Her recovery is rapid, and she skips past milestones. When she is fit and able, there is only one more thing on her to-do list. Jeron.Dark Resonance caused her injury, but he is also the instrument of her recovery, and through him, she finds more clones like her, and her seer's instinct shows her that they are on the very island that she woke up on. Fate is working overtime.

After finding out where she actually came from, Trin is now trying to hide from the family who wants her genes for analysis and who wants her aunt Meadra back.Hiding in Breaker City works for a while, but when kidnappers and assassins threaten those who have tried to keep them safe, Trin decides that a return to the capitol is what she needs. She knows where everything is and how to defend herself in the place she grew up. Hiding with friends is far superior to hiding alone.Apraxa is back from the sea kingdom, and she has no inclination to return for the present. Her mother is abusive, and her fiancé is a bit of a jerk. She joins their merry band and heads out with them to the dragon ball. If she can't get over her fiancé, perhaps there is another dragon who would do as well.Meadra needs a mate for security, Apraxa needs one to spite her fiancé, and Trin is going to destroy any dragoness who gets near Brommin before she can. That nerd is hers!

She has worn a dozen names in her foster parents' efforts to hide her from her demon lord. The name she used at the healer academy was Emrie, so that is how she set up her practice.Tribute night was the demon lord's birthday, and it was while she tended patients that she noted the time. She gets caught at a checkpoint and is forced to cover her presence with magic, but in her haste, she forgets one thing, her tribute.Demon Lord Harrow has been looking for his mate with increasing urgency as the years have gone by. When he is looking over his tribute from the village of Neemin, he catches a familiar scent. He has caught this scent only once before, but he knows it. She is near. He confirms that the guards at the checkpoint came in contact with his mate, and then, he sets out to do what he has been longing for, claiming his bride.