Joven's Bride

by Clarissa Lake

  But now he was home! Joven jogged across the tarmac and swept Carly into his arms, hugging her tightly. “I’ve missed you,” he murmured and kissed her lightly. “I want you so much.”

  “Me, too. The kids asked for you every day. Even, Kinter missed you,” Carly said, smiling up at him. Then she sighed as Joven released her. It would be hours before they could be alone.

  “Have you seen Issa?” He released her and draped his arm around her shoulders to walk back to the runabout. He let Carly take the driver’s seat while he took the front passenger seat. Both kids in the backseat started purring along with one baby dragon.

  “She found a mate. She brought him too the house to introduce him. I hoped they might adopt Kinter, but I think they are still on their honeymoon.”

  “They will make babies soon enough,” Joven said.

  “We sure did… And we are again.” She calculated she had gotten pregnant the night of the party.

  “What? When?”

  “Oh, about 250 rotations. Hezzi confirmed it two rotations ago. Twins, again.” Carly smiled with a twinkle in her eyes as she backed the runabout from the line and turned toward their home.

  “Ah, meomee, that’s wonderful,” Joven said glancing at the little ones in the back seat. “We will need a bigger runabout.”

  “And a nanny droid,” Carly said. “Or we will never have any time alone.”

  “Yes, we will order it, we can program it for dragons too,” Joven said.

  Five minutes later Carly pulled the runabout into its parking space near the front entrance of their home. The original classroom was now a dragon nursery.

  “Do you think we can add a playroom and it can double as their school room?” she asked.

  “As you wish meomee,” Joven said, getting out of the car. He opened the back door and let their children out while Carly collected the little dragon.

  Joven picked up his children, one in each arm and waited for Carly to come around the car and join him. A large shadow moving across the ground made them look up. It was a dragon. As it circled back to land, they could see it was Issa and her mate wasn’t far behind.

  “Well, look at that. She brought her mate back to meet you, since you were gone when she came by before.”

  After they landed, the big male hung back while Issa walked over to Joven and rubbed her ridged head against his leg purring. Carly chuckled as she watched.

  “I think she wants to make sure she had Dad’s approval of her chosen mate,” Carly said. “I think these dragons are a lot smarter than people think.”

  “Yes, Issa you have a fine mate,” Joven told her.

  The male was a dark emerald color and was half larger that Issa who was close to 80 kilos. She was a lighter green with flecks of gold in her scales and golden eyes. As dragons go, they made a beautiful pair.

  Carly’s plan to introduce Issa into the local flock had worked. She had proven it could be done even with dragons raised by humanoids.

  After Joven gave his approval, Issa walked over to Carly and sat up almost like a dog and held out her arms toward Kinter. “You want to take Kinter?”

  Issa responded, “Throop, throop.” She reached for the baby dragon.

  Carly handed it to Issa, who then cuddled him to her chest. Kinter nuzzled her neck and made contented cooing noises. “Okay, Issa. Take good care of him.”

  The dragon dipped her head affirmatively then hopped away and leaped into the air flapping her wings carrying her adopted son with her.

  “Wait till I tell Dr. Meksaj this.” Carly watched for a few moments as the dragons flew toward the mountain.

  She joined Joven resting her hand at his back as they walked into the house together.

  “Wait till I get you alone,” he growled.

  “Oh, I’m shaking,” Carly teased.

  Little Avril made a growling sound, too and they both laughed. He clearly took after his father with his dark blue hair and feline eyes. Lacy on the other hand looked completely human and a lot like Carly.

  “I think it must be naptime,” Joven said,

  “And playtime for Mommy and Daddy?”

  “Yes, meomee.”

  “I am so glad you are home, meomee. I am glad we are home together.”

  “I’ll take these little kittens to their room,” he said, with a smoldering look that told her he was going to mate her senseless.

  Carly blew a kiss as her body responded to her husband’s silent promise. Home was more than a place; it was love shared that made it home.

  THE END

  THANK YOU FOR READING. In this prequel of the series, every major city on Earth has been destroyed by the Mesaarkan's in revenge for a massacre on a distant colony by and Earth survey team. Cyborgs have been created by the thousands to fight the hundred year war. While the fighting goes on in distant colonies survivors and their descendants struggle to survive in what was once Chicago. They live in ruined buildings without utilities or running water much like the pioneers in the 19th century. AMAZON

  Cyborg Vyken Dark is back on Earth after fighting for eighty years in the Procyon War against the Mesaarkans. He came to help restore order out of chaos in old Chicago USA. Every major city on Earth is in ruins. Most are now run by gangs of thugs ruled by overlords who take everything of value and prey on those who are just trying to survive. Vyken and his four brother cyborgs are all that's left of their starship crew of three hundred.

  He didn't want the job, but when his old mentor Admiral Carson Gregor asked, Vyken Dark could not refuse. If he could have chosen a man to call father, it would have been Carson Gregor.

  Vyken chose the name Dark because the darkness in his soul drove him to kill the enemies of the Federation with a ruthlessness that few natural humans possessed. Sometimes that darkness overwhelmed his humanity and made him weary of his life... Until he came back to Earth and found her. AMAZON

  (with Christine Myers) Jolt Somber was the name the cyborg picked for himself. He was created to be a killer and his creators reinforced his killer instinct by flooding him with feel-good endorphins. For eighty years he fought the Mesaarkans at Vyken Dark’s side. He and four genetic cyborg brothers returned to Earth to help restore civilization after the war had ended.

  Jolt is supervising demolition in the ruins of Farringay to build a new starport. The war left Earth in ruins with cities ruled by overlords with gangs of thugs as enforcers. Violence against women is rampant.

  When Jolt finds his one genetic female mate used and left for dead by gangers, the pleasure he takes in avenging her could have unexpected repercussions.

  After what males had done to her, would she ever accept Jolt as her mate? AMAZON

  (with Christine Myers) Interstellar war left Earth in ruins. After the war, cyborgs came back to rebuild and restore civilization, and began awakening the cyborgs still in stasis waiting to fight.

  Talia Cannon, a descendant of apocalypse preppers lives on a small off the grid homestead in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She is the last of her family line unless she finds a mate to have children.

  Jolt Somber has learned that building families is one way to start rebuilding civilization. So, he takes Talia to Farringay to see if one of the cyborgs under his command is her male, her soulmate who is genetically matched to her.

  Bodee Flint nearly the last cyborg she meets is the one. One passionate kiss tells her this hot young cyborg is for her, but what about love?

  Then again, he’s sexy and thoughtful, and he adores her. What’s not to love?

  Whenever Talia has sexy thoughts Bodee is ready and willing to breed in hopes of making offspring. He is the best thing that ever happened to her.

  But will she realize what he means to her before it’s too late?

  This book is for adult audiences and contains explicit sexy encounters. AMAZON

  Zara Maples wants to escape her lackluster life and find her soulmate, so she applies to the interstellar Narovian Matchmaking Service which finds people’s soulmates
based on genetics. Korjh a Narovian cyborg retired from battle, once a full human, longs a family of his own like the one he lost as a boy in an alien invasion.

  Retired to a backwater colony of Modonne where he can’t get a date because he is cyborg, he applies to the Matchmaking service to find his genetic complement, his soulmate, because unlike Narovian felines he cannot recognize his fated mate. After two years they find him a mate on that “dirt” planet recently that recently joined the Alliance.

  Cyborgs are dangerous, aren’t they? Only an ignorant human from a planet called Earth (translated as dirt) would come across two sectors to Modonne to mate with a cyborg. But to her he seems warm and caring and so attractive as they correspond. Of course, it can’t be quite that easy. While Korjh can be sweet and considerate, he can also be scary and aggressive.

  Was he the man of her dreams or nightmares? AMAZON

  Skye Carter’s life changed abruptly when the Drayids attacked Earth and cut a one-mile section out of a dozen cities all over the world. The hole they cut in Washington, D.C. took out the bookstore/internet café business that she had worked five years to build. It was all gone, leaving her a mountain of debt. She decided to sell her house and look for a job to pay for her losses. Then she found an ad for the Narovian Interstellar Matchmaking Service. It promised a ninety-nine percent guaranteed her match would be her soulmate.

  Rader Knight was a cyborg warrior in the Alliance Defense Force, retired after thirty years’ service to a backwater colony with a shortage of females. He applies to the service hoping they will find him a soul mate. After two years, they found Sky Carter, and she was willing to make a leap of faith and accept his proposal and take a three-month space journey to be his mate.

  Did Skye Carter really know what she was getting herself into? AMAZON

  The war was over, yet the Sargans came and bombed his world to ruin…

  They stole his life by making him a slave, but Kragyn Vermaktu was no slave!

  He was a Farseek Warrior. His rebellion landed him on Julconi Prison Planet…

  No guards, no rules…

  A place where strength meant survival…

  Stolen from Earth, sold as a slave Reanne Winter is forced to kill or be killed…

  Earning her a one-way trip to Julconi…

  Terrified by a mob of males outside the gate, she was sure she would be raped and killed before the day ended…

  Enter Kragyn…

  He calls her solmatu and offers to get her to safety.

  A shock of attraction flashes between them as soon as they touch…

  She knows she won’t get a better offer.

  Can the passion that burns between them grow into the legendary solmatu bond?

  Or is it just a symbiotic relationship born of the need to survive?

  Based on the Farseek Mercenary Series AMAZON

  While they were fighting the Consortium's war against the Sargus Empire far from their home world, the Sargus Empire attacked Farseek, leaving mass destruction in its wake. Those not killed were taken to become slaves of the Empire. As the story opens, Commander General Zared Maktu has found the piles of wreckage that is all that's left of his family's neighborhood.

  . Time for the company of Farseek Dreadnought One to make a new plan. They must find those who were taken alive and bring them home. They take a job to rescue a governor's daughter stolen to be sold into slavery.

  Commander Maktu doesn't just rescue the Governor's daughter and her companion. He takes all the 100 abductees from the auction house. One of them is his fated mate Harper Avery. Things heat up from there.

  AMAZON

  Lieutenant Commander Pyrron Advantu, right hand man and friend to Commander General Maktu of the Farseek Brigade is a man used to getting what he wants. Until their world was left in ruin they were the Transtellar Consortium’s most formidable warriors. Each of their ten dreadnaught starships carried a dual force of star warriors and ground fighters.

  Pyrr never expected to find his soulmate among the women they rescued first. Although the timing was all wrong, nothing had ever felt so right. With the mission they had sworn to complete, would they live to return to Farseek to make a home with the woman who claimed his heart and soul? Or were these blissful times in her arms all they would ever have? AMAZON

  Sahvin Kazza, a Narovian feline humanoid was an alien undercover on Earth when he was kidnapped by alien slavers thinking he was human. He was sold into slavery and sent to the mines on Breskaa where he thought his life would end.

  Enter the Farseek Mercenaries, who are traveling through the Sargus Empire, searching for their stolen people who were kidnapped from Farseek and sold into slavery throughout the Empire. The mercenaries hate slavers and slavery, so while they are freeing their enslaved people, they free all the slaves on Breskaa. Sahvin readily agrees to go with them.

  Nora Reed has also been kidnapped from Earth by Alien Slavers and now she is working for the mercenaries recording the refugees as they come aboard Dreadnaught One. Known for the irresistible pheromones felines give off when they find their soulmates, Nora is stunned when Sahvin's innocent touch sets off an uncontrollable urge to mate with him. From there things heat up.

  Contains explicit mature scenes. AMAZON

  Argen Trematu was home on leave at Farseek Brigade when the Sargan’s attacked his home world. With Farseek in ruins, Argen was captured and sold into slavery. Lieutenant Commander Trematu didn’t make such a good slave and landed him on the Julconi prison planet fighting in the pit. He thinks his life is over until he learns the Farseek Mercenaries were on the way to the rescue. Argen never thought landing on the prison world would be his lucky break.

  …. Then me meets her on the rescue ship.

  Zoey Addison was kidnapped from Earth and rescued by the Farseek Mercenaries. She joined the Mercenaries with her three friends because she had nowhere else to go. Her friends all found their soul mates among the crew and Zoey was feeling left out.

  ….Until … Dressed in rags and so dirty she could barely discern what color he was, Argen walks up to her table and takes her hand. The attraction between them all most crackles.… AMAZON

  Tyema Reznar, a Narovian feline was kidnapped from Earth and sold into slavery in Sargus Empire. A Narovian agent stationed on Earth by the Alliance to fight human trafficking by alien slavers, she is not about to accept her fate without a fight. That fight lands her on the prison planet Julconi where she believes she is going to die the first day. On Julconi there are no guards and no rules just inmates who rule by survival of the fittest. Though a trained warrior, Tyema is only one woman.

  Then she picks up a scent that stuns her. There is a man in that fearsome crowd around the landing pad who is her meomee, her soulmate. He is Lieutenant Commander Faigon Nesgatu, a Farseek Mercenary sent to Julconi to locate people who were taken from his world by the Sargan's. Tyema is his solmatu, the Uatu equivalent of soulmate. Normally a joyous event, this couldn't have happened at a worse time.

  Faigon and his team are busy infiltrating the prison population to locate their people and any others worthy of asylum on Farseek. But now he is overcome by Tyema's feline pheromones and must mate with her frequently to quiet them, and time is running out to complete the mission. AMAZON

  Darwick "Wick" McKell is looking for revenge for the murder of his brother Camron by Vargan Rode. He slips into the Lake Clans village of Diamond Bay but Vargan is nowhere to be found. Wick finds Vargan's betrothed Lora Sandgren and decides to kill her instead. However his instant attraction to her quickly changes to lust for her instead of revenge.

  What better revenge than to take Vargan's woman and seduce her? Initially Wick kidnaps he kicking and screaming. He ties her up to keep her subdued and impulsively kisses her before putting her on his horse. Then, Wick knows the attraction is mutual and presses his advantage to make her his. But what happens when he takes her back to Blue Summit?

  Wicked Ways is based on the Aledan Series novel Oltarin: The Horse
Clans Colony by Christine Myers. Wicked Ways is set on Oltarin, 300 years prior to the events portrayed in Oltarin. The preface and introduction are written by Christine Myers.

  Sizzling love scenes. AMAZON

  The United Alliance of Worlds has been protecting and visiting Earth for centuries. Star ship Raptor One carries a crew of humans and feline humanoids. The Narovian felines can and have interbred with humans during all that time. Many felines have found their true mates among the Earthers. Immediately on recognition, the felines give off pheromones that cause their true mates to desire them sexually so intensely that they must mate almost immediately.

  Once Narovians started finding their meomee or true mates there a savvy businessman found away to profit from it. The Narovian Genetic Matchmaking Agency has set up shop on Earth, under the guise of genetic testing for ancestral origins and genetic markers for disease. This brings a new set of challenges to the crew of Raptor One under feline Captain Dargan Merrek as they protect Earth from alien hostiles amid sexy encounters with true mates. AMAZON

  Kidnapped by aliens who sell her into sex slavery to a hideously ugly alien of another species, Jenna Harper is sure her life is over. Enter freighter Captain Farzeke Be'Kal maneuvered by Alliance to rescue Jenna and five other women stolen from Earth. Captain Be'Kal and Jenna Harper are chagrined to learn they are biological fated mates for life.