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Jacen Ryker is a smuggler, a scoundrel, and completely screwed. His ship’s gone, his escape pod’s hijacked, and now he’s stuck on a ship full of genetically-engineered women who’ve never met a man before.

Three stories of human women finding love among their alien Ragoru triads, set in a dystopian version of Earth. This box set includes: Red, White, and Huntress.

Niri Healer Nirrn lives by logic, order, and the healer's oath. But everything unravels the moment he stumbles upon Islae—an underground human medic risking her life to treat the forgotten and discarded. She's reckless. Stubborn. And maddeningly brilliant as well as beautiful. When her illegal clinic is destroyed, Nirrn does the unthinkable: he brings her into his world. Now they're on the run, hunted by a corrupt system that sees their bond as a threat.

The war with the Daranii, instigated by Earth, was short and brutal. Outgunned by superior weapons, the obliteration of the military outpost on Jupiter’s moon, Io, ended with Earth’s unconditional surrender. Captain Jonathan Thomsin of the warship Excalibur was the only Captain of Earth’s combined forces to successfully destroy Daranii ships, not by confronting them, but with guerilla warfare. Outraged by Thomsin’s dishonorable tactics, the Daranii demand the captain as part of Earth’s reparations to Daran.

Some warriors fight for glory. He fights for her. Dernin was born to protect, not to entertain a bloodthirsty crowd. Captured on Jorvla and forced into a brutal underground fighting ring, he's spent months battling for survival. Until his next match comes with a prize he never expected. Alaysia never believed in heroes. Sold as a trophy for the tournament's victor, she refuses to be another man's possession. But when a golden-scaled warrior steps between her and a monster, she sees a different kind of power.

Destiny Delaine has had enough. As daughter of a former high-ranking general who now served as the ambassador of Earth and a socialite mother, she has been reared to be the proper young woman and helpmate. Her parents had her life all planned out, right down to her arranged marriage with one of the planetary representatives under her father. No one asked her what she wanted. Determined as too fat and too old for the mate index, she decided to take her own destiny into her hands.

Cara has been looking forward to her happily ever after. With no living family, it is all she has wanted for years, and she thought she found it with the love of her life: Ben. When Ben has to go away on a business trip to Kaidava, her fantasies of a perfect life and the image of the man she was to marry quickly begin to unravel when Ben comes confessing that he fell in love with a local Kadesh female. To get the man she wants back, Cara will do anything, even break Earth laws by illegally leaving the planet and teaming up with an unscrupulous Kadesh male to get him back.

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.

Shai discovers he is a pathfinder and is desperate to find a genetically suitable partner to prevent his extrasensory talents from running amok. Unfortunately those talents make him a target for the brutal crime lords and other violent denizens, who inhabit the city of Nhil-Rhar. Shai needs to learn how to use his pathfinder senses - no matter how much they terrify him - before he's trapped in a partnership that will enslave him for the rest of his life.

Heidi was raised to be a huntress ever since the Order took her off the streets and trained her in the deadly arts. Foremost among her peers, she was chosen by the Master to be his assassin. She never imagined that she would fall until the day she went against his will and saved his stepdaughter by helping her to escape from his formidable mansion. It made her a target and she became the hunted. They nearly killed her.

It's Friday, October 24, 2031, and Europe is a very different place after pandemics and climate crises have ravaged the world throughout the 2020s. International travel of any kind now requires special paperwork and a specific reason.... So, when a mysterious Englishman, haunted by his past, sits alone in a Milan bar, a curious local girl with bewitching blue eyes aims to find out just why he's there.... The last thing on Nathan Scott's mind this evening is falling in love. But Alice D'Alessandro has other ideas....

Aliens exist and humans are on the endangered species list. So when I save the life of a kid, the last thing I expect is to be thrown onto an alien jail on a planet where the jailers are at war with the inhabitants. All I have to do is figure a way off this hellhole and I look to one being who might help me. He’s one of the most dangerous prisoners here, even though he looks like a sexy angel. But he’s not like anyone I’ve ever met before…stirring desires in me that I can’t, shouldn’t act on. Yet he might be my only chance to escape.

Ash Thibodeaux has spent her entire life in the shadow of the Dragon, feeling its hot breath drift across her soul in stories regaled by her aging Gram. The tales and fables that are woven in the dark could chill a heart...if Ash didn’t have a darker knowledge...and task. Demons wash through the land, possessing friends and strangers alike, and Ash is the only one that can see, or stop, them.

A vision drawn from the mind of a dying member of an Outrider clan draws Shai and Lorne back into the city of Nhil-Rhar, where they are pulled into a deadly conspiracy. Pathfinders are having dreams of destruction and chaos, criminal factions are battling openly in the streets, and a mysterious virus has been unleashed in the Agency's computers.