Showing results for "the master" in Science Fiction

Someone tried to kill Kerri Ward. Bad move. They shot her father. Next, they came for her. Now, it's my turn to kill them. And I'm not a merciful man. But first I have to survive being alone with her. Hidden in a safe house. Isolated on a mountain. Where no one can hear her scream. Where no one can stop me from claiming what's mine . . .

I dislike people. I despise humans. A cruel mandate from one of my region's rulers has saddled me with a slew of little alien humans: I'm to put them to work. One problem? I run a rock quarry, where humans’ thin skin is a detriment to productivity. Overseeing these humans is like trying to herd yanaks. If I don't burn, beat, or strangle them to death by the day's end, it will be a miracle.

Abducted from her exploration ship and enslaved on a desert world, mechanic Bellamy Walsh has fought for her survival. She’s had to fight for everything in her life, and she doesn’t ever expect things to be easy. After being rescued by the tough, deadly cyborgs of the House of Rone, she is shocked to find herself drawn to a grumpy beast of a cyborg.

Everything Serena Gatling ever wanted was taken away from her by a single horrific act of betrayal. Determined never to fall victim again, she closes her heart and dedicates her life to a cold-blooded quest to regain the one thing that still matters to her. Sent to Mars by the ruthless corporation for which she works, Serena is finally within sight of her goal. The last thing she needs is a man distracting her. But the massive cyborg warrior who seems to know all of her hidden secrets awakens feelings she thought had died long ago.

Melinda Garcia, recently appointed Earth Federation's ambassador to the planet Krovatia, is a career woman going places... and leaving behind a broken marriage to the man she still loves. For the last two decades, there has only been one woman in Wyatt's life. Yet his inability to get on a spaceship and leave Earth has cost him. Is there any way to win Melinda back? Kirimor, a powerful male with five lovely drashas—concubines that service his needs as the most senior priest of Krovatia—has fallen for the lovely Earth female, but will she accept him as he is?

I was for sale, but he didn't buy me. He just took me. Exiled from Earth by a tyrannical government, I was meant to be sold for use on a distant world. But Vane doesn't buy things. When he wants something, he takes it, and I was no different. This alien brute didn't just strip me, punish me, and claim me with his whole crew watching. He broke me, making me beg for mercy and then for far more shameful things. Perhaps he would've been gentle if I hadn't defied him in front of his men, but I doubt it. He's not the gentle type.

Zander, the alien warrior prince intent on recovering his planet, needs a mate. While he would never choose a human of his own accord, his physician's gene-matching program selected Lamira's DNA as the best possible match with his own. Now he must teach the beautiful slave to yield to his will, accept his discipline and learn to serve him as her one true master.

Pitted against hundreds of competitors whose only mission is to viciously kill their opponents, Maya must strike a deal with the scariest male she could ever imagine. What starts as an unholy bargain results in a deliciously erotic soul connection deeper than either of them dared to dream. How will they survive when everything is rigged against them? Are you brave enough to join Maya and A’Dar on their harrowing journey as they dodge death and discover their profound attraction?

I’ve been engaged to the same annoying guy for four long years, and still, no wedding date in sight. Grr. I’m completely fed up with this sham, so I tell my “fiancé” I’m taking a job off planet, hoping this outrageous behavior will allow him to finally break off our ridiculous engagement. It doesn’t. So, I leave and become an organizing consultant to some scary alien.

Hundreds of years into the future, mankind and aliens still struggle against piracy and slavery. One spacer, Cade Storm, a young Navajo veteran of the ten systems wars, finds a new direction in his lonesome travels among the stars. While drinking Cygnus beer in a sleezy bar on the mud planet, Cygnus 3, a Zacathian female introduces a new path for him. His aimless travels are over, as he stumbles into the war against slavery and piracy after discovering his Beast Master talent and becoming part of a team.

Ania Looren would have chosen death over becoming a demon host, if she'd had a choice. But her mate Liam is master of the Demon of Synar, and made that decision for her in order to save her life. Her spirit now grieves for what she has become Ania fears the great harm she can cause using the demon's power. Unfortunately, Liam's reluctant embrace of being the demon's master, along with his refusal to discuss Malachi with her, leaves Ania facing her destiny alone.

Most of the universe doesn’t know about the Darkers: a group of people that work outside of time to better the future. Acquisitions Editor Alice Goetz had no idea they existed until they enlisted her for a “simple” mission to improve the future: get Paul Osmund to sign his book to her publisher. After years of reliving the same few hours over and over, Alice realizes simplicity is never simple. She gets the contract, but the mission isn’t quite over, and staying on longer is dangerous.

When Tammi Morrow stumbles across an alien in the Sabine National Forest, she's more interested in why Domino Sim has a business card printed in English than she is in the fact that his skin is slate blue. They spend the entire summer together, but when his assignment on earth is unexpectedly cut short, Tammi spends the next 15 years trying to meet the requirements for inter-galactic communication. If she fails to help mankind become advanced enough to merit the attention of Domino's people, she may never see him again.

Though he has come to Earth to track down enemies of the Intergalactic Federation, when Hale encounters a human female living on her own in a wild, dangerous land, he takes it upon himself to rescue her and claim her as his mate. But the beautiful, feisty girl will need to be tamed. Hale quickly sets about teaching Reyna what it means to belong to a Cantari Hunter, and over the coming days, she is punished thoroughly and shamefully for any disobedience and brought to one shattering climax after another as she is made his in every way.