Author: jessicamarting
After his rescue from Omega-Three-Omega’s illegal cybernetics facility, cyborg Jason Formosa longs for a simple, quiet way of living on his friends’ farm in the Brava System. His idyllic new life is interrupted when his rescuer, the mysterious Cecily Barris, sweeps back into it with devastating news: he has a kill switch implanted in his head and there’s only one doctor who can deactivate it, who … who happens to be on the other side of the galaxy. Cecily has her own reasons for wanting to see the doctor, too. But they fall by the wayside when she and Jason…
Cyborg Adam Johnston’s rescue and escape from Omega-Three-Omega didn’t come without devastating losses. Wanting to get his life back on track, he returns to his home world of Gamma-10 and his childhood sweetheart, Esme.But a surprise is in store for him: Gamma-10 has been destroyed in his absence, and Esme is living in its ruins, raising the daughter he didn’t know he had. SAFE HARBOR is a sweet … didn’t know he had. SAFE HARBOR is a sweet short story set in the Zone Cyborgs Series between OASIS (Book 3) and SANCTUARY (Book 4).more
To get her life back together, Valenna Merchant has to leave Echo-7. When the chance to escape to a remote military base on Omega-Three-Omega via a housekeeping job emerges, she takes it. But nothing on the base is as it seems, including the cyborg, Anders, kept in a giant water tank for research purposes. And when Valenna uncovers the real reason behind her job offer at the base, she realizes … realizes she has to escape or die trying. And she’s taking Anders with her.more
Petty sabotage knocks Matthias’s freighter off-course to an uncharted moon, but before he can right his ship, a distress call lures him to its hidden compound and the beautiful woman trapped there.Confined to a luxurious prison for years, enhanced until she’s a machine in a human body, Serena is desperate to escape, even if doing so could mean her death.But if she’s going to die anyway, she may … death.But if she’s going to die anyway, she may as well really live while she still has the chancemore
It’s going to be the road trip from hell.An embarrassing incident at a corporate dinner party has Josh Hawthorne scrambling to find a replacement android companion for his sociopath of a boss. Unfortunately, that model has been discontinued and the only way to find a new one is to scavenge the long-abandoned factories of the derelict Eastern Badlands. To get there and back safely, he needs help, … needs help, and he finds it in the sketchiest part of Mission City.Electronics dealer Madeline Atwood jumps at the chance to help Josh and take enough of his money to start her…
~Editor’s Pick~The only mistake Lady Adelle Thornber ever made turned into a scandal that rocked London and saw her banished to Scotland, the reluctant bride of a reclusive baron. But Lord Henry MacAulay isn’t what she expected: he cares deeply for his barony and for her.As the sole heir to the Roseheath title and werewolf alpha, Henry knew that he had to take a mate someday. He just didn’t … He just didn’t expect to find her in a disgraced noble’s daughter forced into marriage with him. But as he falls more deeply in love with Adelle, he can’t bring…
The last memory Anissa Alto has is watching the destruction of the research ship Spindle by a rival scientist and being unable to do anything about it. The next thing she knows, she’s waking up in an unfamiliar sickbay one hundred years later, surrounded by a crew of xeno-archaeologists led by Dr. Benedict Sawyer. Sawyer’s plan was simple: dig up the artifact resting in the bottom of a pit on an … bottom of a pit on an uninhabited planet, become an academic superstar, and never teach undergraduates again. The artifact turning out to be a woman from a neighboring star…
One stupid decision leaves Cressida stranded on Haven, an uninhabited planet on the edge of nowhere.But it isn’t totally empty.And Lukas, the cyborg living there in secret, is fascinated with her and has no intention of letting her leave.