I sat down (virtually) with Cara Bristol for a short interview. Cara Bristol’s Terran is one of my all time fave SciFi erotic romances. Her latest release is Stranded with the Cyborg, a Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance, with YES, a cyborg hero! Woot!
Cynthia Sax: What makes Brock, your hero, so very lickable?
Cara Bristol: Brock is a cyborg who works for a covert operations force. He’s like James Bond, but doesn’t need gadgets—his special abilities are hardwired into his brain and physique. Cyborgs are the ultimate dominant, macho alpha heroes. They kick some serious ass. They’re rough, tough, and strong. But very smart too. In a lot of sci-fi romances, the hero is an alien, which can be difficult for some readers to fall in love with (what’s not to love about horned blued-skinned aliens with two…ahem). Cyborgs are human, but with some mechanical and computerized parts. They are uber alphas, but when they fall for the heroine, they fall hard.
Cynthia Sax: What is your favorite line from Stranded with the Cyborg?
Cara Bristol: When Brock and Penelope are walking through the Intergalactic Shuttle Port, she’s mugged—her bag is stolen by an Arcanian. Brock catches the thief. This little scene takes place:
Pia ran up and grabbed his arm. “Stop, you’re going to kill him.”
Brock’s nanocytes transmitted to his brain exactly how much pressure he was applying. “No, but I’ll make him hurt real bad.”
I love it. He is so matter-of-fact! But leaping to her defense shows that even though he doesn’t want to protect her, he will. His sense of duty is that strong. He doesn’t like Penelope at this point in the story, but he’ll go to mat for her.
Cynthia Sax: How does Stranded with the Cyborg start?
Cara Bristol: Hero Brock, a cyberoperative, was about to take a much-needed vacation at a sex resort, when he’s called back to work. He’s informed his new mission is to protect the Terran ambassador while she attends an interplanetary summit meeting. The catch? The ambassador is his old nemesis who lobbed false allegations against him and derailed his former career. He is not at all happy to be assigned to her. The scene sets up the tension between the two of them.
Cynthia Sax: Is Stranded with the Cyborg part of a series and will you be writing more stories in this series?
Cara Bristol: Stranded with the Cyborg is book one of the Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance series. I haven’t decided how many I’ll write (three, four, five?). Each book will focus on a different cyborg hero who works for the covert Cyber Operations force. Book two, which I’ve tentatively titled Mated with the Cyborg, will be published January 5, 2016. The individual novellas will be written to be read as stand-alones, but they will be linked by reappearing secondary characters, the Cy-Ops organization, and locations. For instance, the Darius 4 pleasure resort, which is mentioned in Stranded with the Cyborg, becomes one of the main settings in Mated with the Cyborg.
Cynthia Sax: Thank you, Cara Bristol, for joining us today!
Cara Bristol’s Website: http://www.carabristol.com
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Penelope Aaron, the former Terran president’s daughter, regrets how she got Agent Brock Mann booted from the security force. But now that she’s an interplanetary ambassador about to embark on her first diplomatic mission, she still doesn’t want him tagging along. Especially since he seems to be stronger, faster, more muscled, and sexier than she remembers. And pretending to be her husband? This mission couldn’t get more impossible!
Ten years ago Penelope Isabella Aaron had been a pain in Brock Mann’s you-know-what. Much has changed in a decade: “PIA” as he code-named her, has grown up and is about to attend her first Alliance of Planets summit conference, and Brock has been transformed into a cyborg after a near-fatal attack. Now a secret agent with Cyber Operations, a covert paramilitary organization, Brock gets called in, not when the going gets tough, but when the going gets impossible. So when he’s unexpectedly assigned to escort Penelope to the summit meeting, he balks at babysitting a prissy ambassador. But after a terrorist bombing, a crash landing on a hostile planet, and a growing attraction to his protectee, Operation: PIA may become his most impossible assignment yet.
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Thank you so much for having me. This was a fun interview.