Exciting news update - HAWK is in the very early stages of being adapted into an animated TV show! Please make sure to stick around and add this story to your shelves for upcoming announcements. Thanks so much for your support :) Kas Balera is used to a bit of chaos. As a space bounty hunter, capturing three Class-2 criminals should have been the most difficult part of her week, but when a disaster of epic proportions rocks the entire solar system, Kas is thrust into the midst of an adventure far beyond her wildest fantasies. With the help of a federal robot, a child genius, and her trusty ship - the Calista - Kas must use all her quick thinking and sharp wit if she's going to stay alive and uncover the new dark and dangerous mysteries of the galaxy. Pursued by evil X1 robots, bio-mech panthers and astral police officers, even Kas's kick-ass fight training and expert piloting can't seem to stop the entire galaxy from going after her. * Wattys Shortlisted * * Highest ranking: #1 in Science-fiction * Thanks to @CAPTAINSARCASTIC101 for helping with the blurb.

In the fading grandeur of 1874 Tuscany, a young restoration specialist arrived at Villa Laurent with nothing but a damaged portrait, a locked cottage, and questions no one wished to answer. Cassia Drake had inherited fragments of a history that the noble Laurent family had spent generations burying beneath marble and roses. What she had not expected was the young count who guarded those secrets with the same ferocity he guarded his own wounded heart. Lorenzo Laurent was bound by duty, betrothed by tradition, and trained since birth to sacrifice desire for legacy. Their worlds were never meant to collide. Yet every locked room they opened together, every storm they weathered in silence, and every truth they unearthed from the estate's shadowed past drew them into an intimacy neither could name, and neither could survive admitting. As the seasons turned from blooming spring to frost-covered winter, Cassia and Lorenzo discovered that some inheritances were more dangerous than wealth, some devotions more costly than obedience, and some houses remembered every heartbreak that had ever happened within their walls. Between masquerade balls where identities were hidden and exposed, opera houses where passion was performed but never permitted, and gardens where dead roses held living secrets, they found themselves caught in a web of obsession, betrayal, and desire that threatened to unravel everything the Laurent name had been built to protect. This was not a story of rescue. It was a story of two people who had to decide whether love was worth the destruction of everything they had been raised to believe, and whether a heart could survive being truly seen. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

"A girl falls in love with an AI robot, but does the AI robot sense her love? And if so, how? As their connection deepens, the line between human and robot begins to blur. Will their love ignite a passion that consumes the world, or will it burn out in a fleeting spark? As the boundaries between man and machine grow increasingly ambiguous, the fate of their love hangs in the balance." . . . "Love is a flame that burns so bright, A gentle breeze that whispers through the night. It's a feeling that cannot be tamed, A force that moves mountains, and souls proclaimed"

Trapped in an abandoned warehouse for the past few months, three women are rescued by a mysterious military force/

In a world devastated by a century-old virus that reanimates the dead into something far worse, survival is a rare and fragile hope. Among the few immune survivors is Ava, the Princess of Theris, a small settlement in Southeast Asia. Her people struggle to rebuild amidst the ruins of a broken world, but survival comes at a steep cost. The King of Eldis holds the key to their future. With advanced technology, resources, and rumored cures, Eldis could be the salvation Ava's people desperately need. But when the King sends out a summons for a queen, Ava faces an impossible choice: risk everything by marrying a man surrounded by whispers of both monstrous deeds and appearance, rebellion and numerous assassination attempts, or turn away and potentially doom her people. In this shattered world, Ava must decide whether to sacrifice her freedom and her principles for the survival of her people, all while uncovering the secrets of a kingdom that may hold the power to save-or destroy-what remains of humanity.

Don’t Give Up follows two soldiers from the 506th Orbital Drop Regiment (Airborne) whose outpost was attacked whilst on a ‘quiet’ sector of Alliance territory. This is the story of their escape to the evacuation point and their eventual stand against a hunter killer team sent by the Dominion. Don't Give Up is a promotional short for PROJECT ACHILLES, the working title of a galactic war between Man and the Dominion of Elves.

Uncertain of his place in a galaxy filled with machines, join former organic soldier Kazimon Seven on his journey to understand himself in the wake of a mecha civil war. Sci-Fi Smackdown entry, Round One. Utilized pictures 1 - building landscape (oracle compound), 3 - robot knight (mecha commander), 4 - anime female bot (Ro) and 5 - dead metal angels (Ro's painting of love) as inspiration.

"I could tell by the way he looked at me. He was afraid..." Lilliana's interplanetary journey takes an unexpected turn when her ship crashes on a primitive planet. Stranded and injured, she must keep a low profile to avoid alerting the locals, who are yet to discover space travel. Lilliana soon realizes that she can't survive on her own and desperately needs help until her brother arrives. She is soon discovered, but the alien, Jarath, surprises her when he takes her in. Though they can only communicate through basic gestures, she feels drawn to him, but she is determined to never give her heart away again. With others of Jarath's kind searching for her, the race is on. But who will get to her first - her brother, or the aliens out to do her harm? Sparks fly in this romantic science fiction novelette. © Susan McKenzie 2017. All rights reserved.

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Tiara lives in a world divided by the sane and the infected. This is a sci-fi short story.