Sent alone to a dead planet in a tiny rover named CRAWLER, nineteen-year-old Elise Hart is offered redemption in exchange for obedience. Tasked with mapping buried ruins through a world she can’t see, isolation, pressure, and constant monitoring wear her down. Until the mission reveals that the planet is not as empty as it was meant to be, but will anyone believe her?
A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Five operators extract a neural-suppressed Vethari from a corporate station. When the route collapses, Dex holds a junction alone while the team transits through occupied sections with the asset. The system tracks every hit, every point of stamina, every second. Frame 34 advances to 35—not because he spent points, but because the system recognized what holding that line cost. Resonance: 74 to 76. The team comes out together.
American rent-boy, Heath, is a busy boy servicing men out of a Caribbean coast resort hotel in Honduras. He is doing it so blatantly that one would think he wants to be caught by the local police for male prostitution.
A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Naleth is fourteen months into a military research contract studying why civilians stall in the Integration system. She's found the answer. Sixty-nine percent of civilian designations are combat roles. All six attributes optimize for warfare. The progression track exists for soldiers alone. She was hired to find a gap in the design. She found the design. The system, it turns out, found her first.
A Story in the Ruby Red Universe
Much of this story will focus on events outside of Russia. The USSR is in the early stages of breaking up and things are changing in Russia. Gregor Andropov is one of those enigmas who can adapt and 'move on'. He sends me his two daughters, Natasha and Katya Andropov, first as 'body guards' then later they become a 'we'. Life will never be boring. They are both 40 D or larger, 21, and look like movie stars, not lady shot putters. Our relocation from Moscow to the USA is just the beginning.
Description: The day after his high school graduation he joined the Navy and rarely returned to visit his parents in his hometown. He found his High School girlfriend many years after their graduation and they renewed their relationship after they happened to meet again.
Trained during the Soviet era, a CIA recruit, Victor is an outstanding, methodical sniper. For the first time in his deadly career, he will kill for love. From their first meeting, he has suppressed desire for his little brother's wife. Now, his vengance is directed at the traitor responsible for his brother's execution by the Russians. Task complete, he returns home to the widow’s arms, finally able to passionately consummate an attraction too long denied.