A woman from 1905. A man from 2026. When Amira flees into a desert cave, she expects to wait out the sandstorm and return to an arranged marriage. Instead, she finds Andy — a stranger speaking of a future where women walk free and decide their own fates. He teaches her two words her world never offered: choice and consent. Her body, her rules. Her pleasure, her permission. She steps into a century where everything she was taught about shame, freedom, and desire is turned upside down.
Like all my stories, this has religious overtones. If you don't like that, don't read it! It's a romance with a science fiction twist thrown in. Some different directions for them from other scifi treatments. Happy endings are nice things.
A story set in New Rome
Rose Sclava Gaius Gallicus would like to be a better slave, but her European blood and desire for fellow slave Clover sometimes make her willful. When Rose is summoned from working in the general's garden in order to serve in his son's bed alongside Clover, she goes eagerly, hoping that her deepest desires might finally be coming true.
Amanda is picking up the pieces of her life after an ill-considered marriage, moving across two states back to her girlhood home. Her brother Nick is trying to put his life back together as well, having put everything on hold to care for his dying mother for the last year. Together, they try to find the strength to continue on - and perhaps more.
Book Two: The Veil Awakens Humanity has claimed a shield it does not yet understand. As alien forces test Earth’s resolve, Bastion One stands between survival and surrender. Thomas Morgan and his allies must decide not only how to defend their world, but what kind of species they will become in the process. Because some power is not taken. It is answered.