Reis Asher

The war is over, and Adrian is returning to the village in which he was born. But the last time his mother saw him, he was living as a woman. Now, with the aid of Bethas' Tea and years of hard fighting, he's a scarred, grizzled man in need of some family acceptance and love-and a place to call home once more.

Nick Fabian never made it as a CSI. His idealistic vision of the police as an institution dedicated to serving justice died in the harsh light of day, and he quit to become a freelance private investigator, taking on cases nobody else wanted to touch. Enter Emily Bright, a woman with a score to settle. Her best friend Sabrina was murdered, but local law enforcement is dead-set on ruling it a suicide. Determined to get justice, she turns to Nick....

Andrea Missanaugh lives on dystopian Earth's exploration ship the HAND-5500. Lost in deep space and subjected to the monotony of survival under a regime that still holds the distant ship in its iron grip, Andrea has lost all hope of living a happy life and waits for her silent mental rebellion to be discovered and the inevitable death that will follow. Then she's whisked away from the HAND-5500 by two curious aliens from a planet called Evalaque:...

Ario six-four-nine-one is an obsolete synth gigolo-especially when his latest trick proves to be his last in a brutal and horrifying way. But he's only a synth, it's not like he can really think and feel. No one will notice one more out of date synth tossed in the garbage. Except for Elias, homeless and lonely because he's not what his father-or the world-wants him to be, haunted by a tragedy for which he cannot forgive himself. When he finds a battered,...

In a near-future United States where slavery is alive and controlled by an organization known as the Circle, Avery Tulano is up for sale yet again-and it might very well be his last time on the auction block. As a young man, he signed his life away in a contract willingly, driven by the desire to escape his life. Now, eight years later, he's broken, battered, and sick from a life of unspeakable horrors. When the bidding starts as low as $200, it may...

Edgar Tobias works as a freelance computer programmer in the city of Anver. Desperate to escape his deceased fathers' fame as a hit singer-songwriter duo, he left the city of Kasyova and the arts behind. He doesn't know he's about to be targeted in a vicious murder game where the prize is a million dollars in cryptocurrency to the first person who can capture his murder on video. Reis Asher lost everything in the Anverite civil war ten years ago,...

Alyssa's father wants her to settle down and become a happy wife and mother, as befitting a woman from one of the noble Houses, but Alyssa has other ideas: she wants to be an inventor. Her first invention, the crystal-powered teacup warmer, has earned her an invitation to study at the Institute and she accepts, hoping to meet her personal heroine Lady Isabelle and to be herself outside the confines of her rigid upbringing. Left disappointed when...