With its thriving military base, Seaside, North Carolina, is teeming with heroes of all stripes. But, as the Hero's Welcome series from Annie Rains continues, it takes a cowboy to rescue the town's newest resident from heartache. After a bad breakup leaves Julie Chandler completely devastated, she comes to Seaside seeking a fresh start. A talented, compassionate yoga teacher, she has developed a program to help alleviate the effects of PTSD, but getting a bunch of bullheaded Marines into downward facing dog might be impossible. So Julie's shocked when one of her first students dives in headfirst--and almost tempts her to take down her walls with his easy smile and electrifying touch. Ever since Texas cowboy turned Marine pilot Lawson Phillips lost a crew member in a helicopter accident, he hasn't been able to fly. When a psychologist orders him to attend, of all things, a yoga class, Lawson's outraged--until he finds out Julie is the instructor. She's... Views: 47
Terran Times – Nenita Chase finds herself wanted for DNA by a creep and then for her body by two multi-shifters. She really prefers the second. Life on a space station is hard for a Terran, Nenita has adapted as well as she could. A raider strike on her station sends her and her crew to the battle stations as support and she ends up between a psycho and two of her best friends. Only two out of three survive the attack, something which burns in Nenita the whole time she is being tortured and altered to suit her captor’s ideals. With her talent out of control and her refusals getting violent, she is sent into the wilderness to await a selection of raiders and prisoners who have fought for the dubious honour of three days in her bed. Up a tree, she meets her matches, but unless something drastic happens she isn’t going to come down to face the two men who defend her. Will the Oefric win her heart, or just a night in her bed? Views: 47
Tales of the Citadel 8
Naka can use her mind to
destroy a world, or she can save it. When nothing seems right, she calls the
moon.
Naka was adrift with no
means to focus, but accidentally starting a tremor in her hometown lets
everyone know what she is and sentences her to confinement. The Citadel sends a
representative to take her away, but the information that he is given will make
sure that she finds no friends off Resicor.
Her life is no longer
her own, but her talent begs to be used, and on the planet of Piq, she finds something
very wrong. The empty world should not be empty. Its mind has been stolen and
lodged in the moon. In his efforts to escape, the living mind of the planet has
almost ripped his old body apart. With skills she didn’t know she had, Naka
steps in to carry one mind back to its home. She hopes she will survive the
process.
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Kidnapped by accident, she finds that her captor took her by design and he has no intent to ransom her back.
Living an uneventful life was Cierra’s goal, but fate kept pulling her in another direction. In the Volunteer Program, she discovers a talent for precognitive identification. She can see when something is wrong.
On Xerat, she works as a contract proofer, finding errors and gaffs in the written words. Being kidnapped and hauled to a spacecraft was not in her plans.
Ahket saw the pale alien with his talent and knew that she had to come with him. He didn’t know why, but she was designed to be with him, and as events unfold, he is more confused than ever. Views: 47
