by Amber Stuart
PORTAL to PASSION
Eleven Science Fiction Romance Stories
COPYRIGHT © 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016
Aurelia Skye
Aubrey Watt
Amber Stuart
Calista Skye
Catty Diva
Erica Conroy
JC Andrijeski
Juno Wells
S.M. Schmitz
Scarlett Grove
Tessa Thorn
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Table of Contents
WRITTEN IN THE STARS by Aurelia Skye & Juno Wells
Jada Washington suffers from a rare disease that has crippled her body and left her home-bound. She copes by finding strength and support among the friends she’s made on an online forum for those afflicted by the disease. When her friends start to go missing, she knows someone is taking them. Her investigation draws the attention of a handsome alien inquisitor sent by his home world to investigate the disappearances. As they unravel the reason for the abductions, she finds it almost impossible to disbelieve Ryland Breese’s claim that she’s his mate. She might not believe in soulmates, but she can’t deny she’s attracted to the sexy golden alien. One of his kind is stealing Earth women, but he’s stealing her heart.
DETAILS: Standalone, Book 1, BBW Romance, BWWM, 3rd person POV
PARAGON by Aubrey Watt
In the middle of the Arizona desert, a hundred feet underground, the United States military is illegally developing the first emotionally sentient android. Classified top secret, the mission has failed to successfully awaken the first two androids created in the lab. When brilliant neuroscientist Chal Davidson is called in to assist, the third android is just hours from being awakened. By the time she realizes the vast implications of her work, it's too late to stop the prototype's development. Torn by her moral and scientific responsibilities, Chal is even more confused by the emotional connection she is starting to feel with the newly-created man. The only hope she has is escape--for her and the android--and time is running out...
DETAILS: Standalone Novel, Android/Cyborg Lover, 3rd person POV
CURVATURE: PART 1 by Amber Stuart
A Space Command employee who wants to eliminate her V-card. A pleasure worker in need of a sabbatical. Their introduction to sex magic and discovering how it can help a crippled Earth and the human race. CLIFFHANGER!!
DETAILS: Part 1 to serial, BBW Erotic Romance, Shapeshifter, Alternating 3rd person POV
MY ALIEN PRINCE by Calista Skye
When clumsy intern Jen Sullivan literally stumbles into the Derigaz Prince Tar'Shoc, the most powerful man in the galaxy, they soon find it impossible to think of anything but each other. But can a prince and future emperor really marry a fluffy Earth girl with borrowed shoes and a tendency to trip over her own feet? Powerful forces are vehemently opposed to such a union and will do anything to prevent it, even if it means sending their own children to their deaths...
DETAILS: Standalone, Book 1, BBW Romance, Humor, Alternating 3rd person POV
RAZAR: BOOK 1 by Catty Diva
Razar needs a mate but on his planet there are nine males to one female. Humans look like they are compatible but if they find out the secrets of his kind they will refuse to send them mates. Lista needs money for her mother's operation or she will die. Her sister has volunteered her to be a bride for an alien. If she wins the mating game she will be free to keep the money and return home. Can she outwit him or will he claim her heart before it's game over?
DETAILS: Novella, Book 1 of a Series, Alternating 3rd person POV
HIS ONLY HOPE by Erica Conroy
Cord, a former soldier who lost his young family, is hired to ensure a scientist’s sister is transported safely to the Ashula Mountains. Easy money, right? Not when a self-proclaimed governor, the natives and Cord’s old friend are all against him. Add to that his personal demons, alcoholism and an unwanted attraction to an alien...Cord has his hands full. Hope, however, has a destiny. One that will save everyone from a never-ending winter—but only if she succeeds. Unfortunately for her, the only one who can help is a hairy and uncouth alien male. There’s never a dull moment in this new frontier where winter is never-ending and tech doesn’t work, but one question remains. Will Cord accept the second chance at love he’s offered or will Hope slip through his fingers in this touching Science Fiction Romance?
DETAILS: Novella, Standalone, 3rd person POV
THE MORPH by JC Andrijeski
Dakota Reyes, a PI who specializes in "hard-to-prosecute" cases, finds herself in a dark alley one night, about to end up dead at the hands of a young Ted Bundy in training...when a lost, shape-shifting alien named Nihkil rescues her. Then he accidentally takes her home with him. The problem is, Nik's home is in a different dimension, and Dakota has no clue how to get back to Seattle, or even Earth.
DETAILS: Novel, Book 1 of 2, Alien dragon shapeshifter, 1st person POV
ALIEN’S CURVY MATE by Juno Wells
They say love transcends time... But ten thousand years is just ridiculous. Abby dreams of something more in her life. She shoots for the stars but is stuck in her dead-end job with a deadbeat boyfriend. Be careful what you wish for, right? One car accident later and Abby's embroiled in a plot to save the world from a devious alien army and a romance that started ten thousand years ago. A romance involving one incredibly smokin' hot alien alpha Commander, Vintares of the Lantarians. He made a promise he intends to keep... Awakening from cryo-sleep to find his ship defenseless against the looming alien army, Vintares escapes to Earth. There he finds his fated love, a curvy, luscious human named Abby. Sparks fly, the heat between them scorching. But he's made a promise to keep the world safe. Their love has to persevere even when their world is about to end.
DETAILS: Novella, BBW Romance, Alternating 1st person POV
RESURRECTED by
S.M. Schmitz
When Dietrich buried his fiancée, Lottie, he descended into his own personal Hell – until he runs into her in a café in Houston two years later. Except this couldn’t be her. Not after two years. She speaks the same, shares the same memories, yet something is different. Determined to unravel this mystery, Dietrich finds she has been resurrected by a mysterious force. But for Lottie, something went wrong, and her existence threatens to undermine the lucrative business that made her resurrection possible. As Dietrich becomes locked in a deadly struggle with those who want to destroy her, he will discover just how much he’s willing to sacrifice for the woman he once loved.
DETAILS: Novel, Book 1 of Three Book Series, 1st person POV
ALIEN PRINCE’S SOULMATE by Tessa Thorn & Juno Wells
When Maia receives the notice from Galactic Matrimony, she can't give up the chance to make sure her family is financially set for life. Taking a flying leap into the unknown, she finds herself the wife of Tal, a cocky, young warrior who isn't quite ready to be tied down. Tal loves the thrill of battle and exploring in his warship—babies and marriage aren't on his radar at all. But when Maia finds out about the Mirrotirik's secret genetic engineering technology and ends up pregnant, Tal has to step up and become the father and husband he needs to be.
DETAILS: Novella, Standalone, Alien Mail Order Bride, Alternating 1st person POV
ALIEN GENERAL’S WIFE by Scarlett Grove & Juno Wells
When Indigo Robertson learns that her name has come up in the Draconian mating lottery, the timing couldn't be worse. The benevolent dragon shifter aliens need human women to replenish their DNA ... but their ancient enemy, the Mulgor, have followed them to Earth and invaded. The news that she's been matched with a Draconian warrior comes just after the Mulgor kill Indigo's entire family. Filled with grief and guilt, she can't allow herself any happiness. Not even with a seven-foot-tall, sexy as hell dragon shifter.
DETAILS: Book 1 in a 5 Book Series, Dragon Shapeshifter, 3rd person POV
AUTHOR INFORMATION
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
By
AURELIA SKYE
JUNO WELLS
Chapter One
Jessminda42b9 was missing.
Jada had tried to be patient, but she was no longer clinging to the hope that her friend was busy doing something else. Like the other twelve women who had disappeared from the forum she ran, Jessminda had simply stopped posting.
At first, Jada hadn’t realized there were disappearances. It wasn’t completely uncommon for people to stop posting, or to go long stretches of time in between, even for the close-knit Internet community that composed the forum for sufferers of Kaiser’s Syndrome.
It wasn’t until the fourth member had dropped out of contact that Jada noticed their members were slowly disappearing. She had phone numbers for some of the missing women, and she had tried to call them all as the weeks had passed. Since they were Internet friends, she didn’t always have a way to reach them outside of email or the phone number for some, even though she was the administrator of the forum, but she had continued to send emails every few days that went unanswered.
It was completely unlike the women, most of whom had been her friends since she’d established the forum eight years ago. They had all joined within a few months of her setting up the website for Kaiser’s Syndrome sufferers after receiving her own diagnosis. It had been one of the ways she had coped, and as her mobility had dwindled, and her confinement at home had expanded, the forum had become one of the most important parts of her life.
She was deeply alarmed that twelve of her friends had fallen out of contact within the last two months, but Jessminda was particularly upsetting, because they were close friends. They had discovered within a few months of starting to chat that they lived in the same city, so whenever practical, they got together in person. With both of them confined to a wheelchair, it didn’t happen as frequently as either would have liked, but it was typical for them to see each other at least once a month.
She hadn’t heard from Jessminda for five days now, including emails and phone calls. She had called Jessminda’s brother, who often stopped to check in on her, and when he had finally called her back less than thirty minutes ago, it had been with the disquieting news that his sister wasn’t home. She usually informed him if she was going somewhere, just to be on the safe side.
Pradheep had also told her the neighbors hadn’t seen Jessminda come or go in the last few days. Even in a wheelchair, her friend was a dynamo, often wheeling around the apartment complex or sitting out by the pool in the summertime. It wasn’t like her to stay locked up in her apartment for days on end. She wasn’t like Jada.
She had tried notifying the police, but they had dismissed her concerns, taking the view that she couldn’t possibly be concerned about people not checking in on an online forum. The detective she had spoken with had been slightly rude about the whole thing, as though he considered her a waste of his time.
That meant she’d find no help with the authorities, so the only tool at her disposal was to slip into the underbelly of the world wide web and see what she could dig up. She made herself comfortable, slipped on compression gloves to protect her fragile wrists and finger joints, and began to finesse her way inside databases that were encrypted and technically supposed to be closed to her.
As she made her way around, starting with Internet providers and working outward after learning the identity of each woman who had gone missing over the past two months, she was temporarily amused at her own skills and familiarity with this side of life. Before she had gotten sick and had received the unexpected diagnosis of Kaiser’s Syndrome, she had barely used a computer at all, except for work. She’d known how to copy and paste and create new documents, but she’d no knowledge of how the processes worked or the code that kept everything flowing.
Once she had displayed symptoms, they had moved quickly, and she’d been diagnosed with rapid progression less than a year after the first diagnosis. She had ended up in a wheelchair within two years, and it had changed her life. She stayed home most of the time now, and she had discovered she didn’t actually mind it. The social creature she had been before was the one that felt like the façade that had finally fallen away, rather than her feeling like she was retreating into a shell and hiding from the world.
With all the free time on her hands, and looking for some way to use it, since she could no longer work as a paralegal at the busy law firm where she had been employed, she had found herself learning all kinds of useful information. That had somehow led to her finding her way into hacking, almost by accident.
There was something fun and pleasing about solving the mysteries and breaking the code, and there was an illicit thrill that went with looking through all the deepest, darkest places of the Internet that had drawn her. She wasn’t the best cracker around, but she was pretty good, and she had learned it all easily.
Two hours later, she leaned back in her wheelchair and pulled her hands from the keyboard, taking a break for a moment as she absorbed everything she had learned.
While it was still fresh in her mind, she put her hands back to the keyboard and pulled open her blog. It was an unusual posting for her, since she was far more likely to write about the daily challenges of living with Kaiser’s Syndrome, or share her recipes and cooking, which was another hobby of hers.
She didn’t touch on hacking or conspiracy theories even in a casual way usually, but her blog seemed like the best venue at the moment. The authorities wouldn’t take her seriously, and she couldn’t reveal her source of information to any recognized media establishment. She would have to act as a citizen journalist and hope enough people became interested in the topic that it would force the authorities to investigate.
This is a different blog post for me, everyone. As you know, if you’re a reader of my blog, I’ve run a forum for Kaiser’s Syndrome victims the last eight years. There are only about eight-five
members, so when they start started to disappear, I took notice. These are the kind of women who don’t just stop talking to us one day and drop off the face of the earth. For a lot of us, we’re as close as family.
I called the local police, but Detective Thorne dismissed my concerns, so I had to become more creative. I’ve discovered that it’s not just my friends going missing. My source revealed there are almost four hundred active cases of missing women with Kaiser’s Syndrome at the moment worldwide.
I assume you’re not new to my blog, and you know what Kaiser’s Syndrome is. Just to be on the safe side, let me give you a quick refresher course. Kaiser’s Syndrome is a genetic condition caused by inheriting a tiny fragment of extra DNA on the ninth chromosome. It only causes symptoms in women and is passed from mother to daughter, but it’s only active if the father is also a carrier.
It was only recently discovered, and doctors don’t know everything about it. Dr. Hans Kaiser was the first to label and identify it, and his first clue was all his patients who had it suffered from the same shared genetic anomalies, including having an extremely rare blood type identified as AO-negative. That’s due to the genetic mutation, and the link is still unexplained.
Also unexplained is why Kaiser’s Syndrome affects mostly women of African or Indian descent. Eighty percent of women who have Kaiser’s Syndrome are in those two nationalities. Men can receive the gene from their mother, but they’re only ever carriers. There hasn’t been nearly enough testing to determine why that is, or if it’s more prevalent among other races of men, or also mostly confined to Indians and Africans.
So the question becomes, what happened to four hundred women with a disease that progressively affects their neurological and musculature system, rendering us disabled and virtually immobile as the disease progresses? Is there a connection? It’s true that people go missing every day. According to the National Crime Information Center’s website, there are more than six hundred thousand open missing persons cases right now.
