A woman out of time lands on a world that has potential to become a weapon for the future. Noma feels the pain of separation from her sister keenly, but the light that she stumbles across belongs to a man with beautiful eyes. In a city of the rejected, she finds a purpose, and in the investigation of her destiny, she takes people with her out of the shadows and into the light. The Citadel takes shape under her focus, and when it comes time for their first actions, her training on Resicor is used to help the talents that it had kept under control. It goes to show that education is never a waste.

Trained as a Companion for the Alliance, Eleanor Palmer has had a recurring assignment on the Vimpyr homeworld. When death and treachery takes the king and his heir, she takes action and runs with the only surviving member of the bloodline in tow. As Commander Matias joins both herself and her charge, she learns what it is to become Vimpyr. To be the Vimpyr heir's Blood Proxy.Join her as she tries to separate hormones, blood lust, and lust for power in her bid to keep an empire alive.

Arguing for a living isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but Koara embraces her calling to analyse societies and fight for change. Koara has always loved being able to predict the effects of social change and what is needed to make it happen. On her own world, she set matters in motion when she was twelve years old, and it cost her her planet. While some folk enjoy an evolving society, others fight to remain the same, and their actions can take a violent turn. Citadel Lowel becomes her home, and a Yaluthu adopts her as its own. Life is going along well until she is given an assignment that removes her from her comfort zone and she has to alter the way she sees the worlds around her or disaster will take over.

A woman who can copy any form is rescued from her own people by a walking shadow. Working in the Resistance, Amly Hyde has specialised in hiding other talents from notice. Now, she has been spotted, and she is hiding in plain sight until she just can’t hide anymore. Rescued from a capture event, Amly is swept off her feet and through the floor, leaving Resicor in a way she had never really considered. Alive with her feet on the deck plates had never seemed like an option. She is destined for the Citadel and her companion is going to make sure she arrives safe and sound. Walking Shadow has known his match was on Resicor, and the moment he saw her, he was sure that she was the one. The blue hair was a giveaway, but her strong-minded fixation on survival was a bit of a turn-on. He has time to convince her they are meant to be together but patience has never been one of his virtues.

Keeping candy in production takes priority during the holidays as she spends time getting some sugar. Blitzen enjoys fixing things, and the machines that make Christmas sweeter need attention too. As Belinda Litzen, she is a one-woman repair shop catering to all the overworked bakeries in town. When a candy shop has a rolling machine down, she shows up to save the day and meets a candy maker who gives her a visual sugar rush. Rex has been waiting for his reindeer to show up, but the repairwoman was not what he had imagined. Instead of brown, she was golden, and instead of shy, she met his gaze head-on. She is his first reindeer, and he is her first wolf.

Changed by an injury, Aster starts a new life as a bodyguard and finds herself falling for war, death and sex. Aster’s assignment as a bodyguard suits her temperament. She likes to boss folks around while keeping them where they are supposed to be. A fan of order, she enjoys her position away from Earth on a world where her services can be of use. Dressed up like a doll for a costume party, she finds that fighting is part of the local community tradition and calling upon an ancient god is also traditional. She just never expected him to answer. Yodin is an immortal who has been looking for another of his kind. Aster has only recently shed her previous life and entered the endless lifespan that he currently enjoys, but he intends to introduce her to the pleasure of an eternity with the god of war, death and sex.

Dev leaves her own world knowing that her future lies elsewhere. She joins the Citadel where her strength can be useful, but is useful enough? Dev’s talent makes her unwanted on her own world, so she chooses to join the Citadel in an effort to find another where acceptance will be offered. Helsin is the physician who tests her talent and when he confirms her strength, he offers her a position in the Lowel Citadel, a base that is still in the planning stages. Dev becomes the first employee of Lowel Citadel, based in the Udell base and trained by the Sector Guard. With a resume like that, it is no wonder that on her first assignment she is told that she has a talent for crisis management. Her living arrangements are crisis enough.

Using tech to hold her shape becomes a problem when she meets a man who drives her senses into overdrive and tests her control.     Alfreda has become used to the constant pressure of her harness, keeping her in a basic bipedal form and helping her back into her Terran shape. When she learns that her mixed blood makes the shapeshifter in her far stronger than the human, she has a choice. Should she give in or keep herself human at all costs? El-sur works with the Guardian project, finding those of his species and training them to their full potential. Alfreda is stronger than any other shifter he has met, and she is also the only female of his kind he has ever seen. Will biology win over education?

A woman in jail finds her future lies on another world, and her price to travel is a pardon. In prison for common assault, Bryn is surprised to get a small alien visitor who offers her a life on a new world. She agrees on the condition that she gets a pardon. On the way to her new home, there is an attack, and Bryn finds out what she is made of. It scares the hell out of her. Surat knows that he is getting a warrior in the Lrrko Bride he is caring for. Until he is unable to help her, he has no idea that she is a born survivor. She returns to him damaged but alive. Now, she needs to deal with the aftereffects of her actions. No pardon is forthcoming.

A Terran Times Tale Mae can shape her own future, but will she have the patience to wait for the shapeshifting lover of her dreams? Maeryn Lassiter is an Agent of the Enforcers. She has a special skill set that allows her to change her future, and if she is involved with others she can take them along for the ride as well. She meets Nothven Harring on an assignment, but he isn’t the man for her, not yet. She has seen him in detail in her dreams, but not as the man fighting to help free her. She needs him slightly older and battle scarred before she wraps her legs around him. Going their separate ways hurts them both, but nothing in her life is ever out of reach for the catalyst.

Bot City is ready to rise. The weapons are ready, the aliens are coming, and the bots are ready for action, but what comes next? The pilots of Bot City have been focused on securing the safety of their people, and incidentally the human city, for the last few days. With one final battle to expunge the Tokkel before they can try and get a foothold on Hera, the bot pilots are ready to take up the customized weapons and use them to show the alien invasion who is in charge. Their goal is clear. They have to repel the Tokkel and learn the actual history of the valley as not one version of the tale has rung entirely true. The Nine have their version, the elders have their version, the city has their version, and then, there is the truth. It is past time for the truth to be heard. The pilots have earned it.