In a world overrun by mutated beasts, defiance is a death sentence. Skirting the rules entirely, a data broker collects secrets of those who rule over the limited human space. Not driven by noble pursuits - she's simply ambitious. Unfortunately, a man set to inherit the hopeless war against the ever-changing nature takes notice, and he intends to cut her insolence out with a blade. Slow and agonisingly. A lesson must be taught. Yet, the spy vanishes into the overcrowded streets. A man whose ascent to power is stained with the blood of allies and enemies alike has a lot to hide, and she never lets him forget she's still out there. Watching. Poisoning the well even further. The manhunt gradually twists into a slow, burning obsession. When enemies close in on all sides, the warlord calls upon his shadow with an alluring promise of truce. Trust is a knife. He hands it to her. Further story is available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRSX826G

Sometimes, the only thing you can do is spit blood. KATIE's familiar with the taste by now. When the deathless MATIL threaten the love of her life, they're doing her a huge favor. She meets a beautiful stranger who's kind, brave, and maddeningly gentle. If only this iron bracelet weren't eating into her wrist, she might almost enjoy meeting FOX. Sometimes, all you can hope for is a partner in crime. FOX has been enslaved before, and he's not planning on making it a habit. With the MATIL inside his head and their lies in his ears, he'll need help to get out alive. Then he meets a too-small girl with a too-big heart, and suddenly survival isn't enough. Will he reach too far? Sometimes, you think you'd be better off dead. JATUS has never fit the mold, even among the "Perfect Average" of the MATIL. Since losing Moblay, nothing's right, not even her mind. Fox is so far outside her realm of experience she can't look away, but he's doing dangerous things no good MATIL would ever dream of. Sometimes, all you can do is get through the day. Or days. Whatever. BERI can't really keep track while he's cooked on human drugs. The High King of Faerie is trapped in the gears of Colorado's mental health machine and high enough to see gods. But he's getting out - and when he does, he'll take the fight to the deathless sons of mothers who started this whole mess. If only he could convince her brother she's still alive.

A story about a mortal becoming a god"

All he wanted was to disappear. What he found wouldn't let him go. Humanity clings to survival in fortified cities, learning to live beside the horrors that slipped in from another plane. Monsters now walk freely among the ruins of the old civilisation. For a runaway boy scraping by on the streets, danger is nothing new. Hunted by violent men and ignored by a society too busy surviving, he's learned to trust no one. But when he crosses paths with a strange, otherworldly being - one unlike any he's seen before - his life takes a turn for the surreal. The creature is powerful, unpredictable, and completely alien in thought. It breaks boundaries as easily as bodies, and the boy wants nothing more than to be rid of it. But fate - or an unbreakable, incomprehensible will - keeps pulling them together. As tension builds and an uneasy bond begins to form, a far greater danger looms. And it's not from the monsters outside the walls. The story in full, including the explicit excerpts: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5WL39BL (chapters 1 R - 12 BC) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYT3Q7H7 (chapters 13 R - 25 R)