Gas prices go through the roof and civilization collapses. Boy meets girl in primitive circumstances and nature takes its course. There's action, romance, and a little violence along the way. / (Reviews)
Theo is a a fairly average fifteen year old who feels like he's recieved a raw deal in life. What will happen when he dredges up something terrible from his past to help a friend? Maybe something amazing.
A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Nara Tholren spent three years alone on a frontier survey world, learning to watch and wait. When her company collapses, she enlists with the Meridian Enforcement Corps—flagged a Signal 13 anomaly. She takes the harder road: specialty assessment, real wash-out risk, no promises. Through training and a corporate operation gone wrong, she makes the shot no one ordered, ends the crisis, and the Integration names what it has logged since childhood. The watcher learns what she was waiting for.
An astronaut falls in love with a fellow crew member while training for a mission. Can they make their fantasy of weightless sex come true without endangering their jobs?
Timmy and Natalie have been invited to join a spouse-sharing group. The decision to join -- or not to join -- has to be made by Zero Hour. And the clock is ticking away.
A story in the World of the Three Gods Universe
Trapped in an ancient tomb as the deadly White Blight howls outside, mercenary partners Stan and Hiss have only one way to stay warm—and one way to silence the maddening voices of the dead whispering in their minds.
His wife has a craving for rough sex every so often. He's never been able to overcome his protective instincts to truly enjoy it, or give her the full level of roughness she wants. When her day-long campaign of calculated irritation piles on top of the rest of the universe doing its best to annoy him, she may have just created a monster.