After a crushing defeat on the battlefield, the Ravner family are forced into exile whilst the king sits comfortably upon his throne. Years on and it's all the family know. Tormented by her seething brother since childhood, suffering is just another thing Asta knows and tolerates. Tolerates, that is, until it becomes far too unbearable to put up with any longer; she is soon sent fleeing an unwanted future and his cruel, fiery temper. On the run from her family, she is captured and forced to bow to the man they call king. Anything left of her is killed in an instant. Yet, when stirrings of old magic begin to surface - magic that has been dead and buried for many years - can Asta find her way in a world she never felt she belonged to? This pretty cover was made by @AHBaig :D (It has reached, as of yet, 570 in the rankings. I know, right? You're in awe of my abilities and A list fame.)

Four women - a lawyer, a teacher, an athlete and a soldier - are abducted by four alien men. The aliens, far from being bug-eyed monsters, have 90% human DNA. Despite the circumstances, the women are fascinated by their captors. Particularly when they discover the men have taken time to learn everything about them: even down to filling the women's on-board wardrobes with their favourite labels! ("For an alien," says Amisha, "he certainly knows how to shop.") They also discover that the men have the power to connect with them at a deeper level. So much so that the women can experience - directly - what it is like to be a man! With amazing consequences. But danger threatens: not just the women, but mankind itself. On the aliens' home planet of Sacmis, a genetic disorder has resulted in male births massively exceeding female births. So much so that most men can never hope to have a relationship with a woman. Let alone sex. To save the planet from extinction, Sacmis has prepared a fleet of slaveships to abduct compatible women from Earth in large numbers, to be used purely for breeding purposes. Somehow, the four alien men and the four women have to stop them. © Adriana Nicolas 2016

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