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Celebration Of The Harvest

By Cynthia Sax on October 11, 2021

Today is Thanksgiving in Canada. I was always told that Canadian Thanksgiving is earlier than US Thanksgiving because our harvest is earlier. We’re farther north. Frost comes earlier.

That is what I celebrate about Thanksgiving – the harvest. It is a celebration that is near and dear to my heart as my Awesome Granddad was a farmer. It is an important event for my family.

And it is an important event for everyone who likes to eat. (grins) Harvest celebrations are held all over the planet (and I suspect on other planets) in many different ways by many different cultures. If beings in an area grow food (a high risk yet essential activity), they likely rejoice when that food is ready to be stored or consumed.

Holding Hoarse, one of my free short stories ( you can download it here – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/9u4o1im0u0 ), centers around the celebration of the harvest.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

When he intercepts a communication mentioning the existence of one of his kind, he has to investigate its source. The message could be a trap set by his enemies. He’ll take that risk if it secures him the companionship he requires to be fully functional.

What he finds is a daring brown-eyed female who activates all his systems. She proudly proclaims she’s a researcher, brandishing that information like a weapon before her. He wants to kiss the sass off her beautiful face, protect her from the dangers around them, claim her forever.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features the sole surviving B Model cyborg warrior, a courageous researcher seeking to uncover the past, and an unplanned visit to a settlement ruled by an extremely scary all-knowing, all-powerful being.

B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – October 10th

By Cynthia Sax on October 10, 2021

I started writing Seizing Power, the fifth and final core story in the Rebel Cyborgs subseries (releasing in February), this week and I already love it. This story will be explosive. (grins) Power and Cadet/Eirene Ours have a tension-filled history and so much heated emotion to conquer. They will have to fight for their happy ever after and for the safety of the cyborgs’ Homeland.

This upcoming week will be spent writing more first draft chapters on Seizing Power. It is also Thanksgiving in Canada on Monday so I will be eating turkey and pumpkin pie with the Dear Wonderful Hubby. As many folks in my corner of the universe are still being careful, there won’t be any big family jams…or any outside the immediate household dinners at all. But there will be some awesome phone conversations, laughs and great food.

Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Call a loved one if you’re able. Read a steamy romance. Look up at the stars if you get the chance to do that. We are all part of the universe and I think that’s awe-inspiring.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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B Free And The Hezen Language

By Cynthia Sax on October 9, 2021

Some of the first scenes of B Free, the fourth core story in the Rebel Cyborgs series (releasing in November), are set on Heze 478, a planet controlled by the Humanoid Alliance.

The Hezens, the locals on the planet, have their own language. It is roughly based on the Czech language here on Earth. (I adhere to the Common Ancestor theory. Humanoids share an ancestor with humans and it is logical that languages would be similar.)

The name of Quinn’s Hezen contact, Pomoc, for example, translates to Help or Helper.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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Seizing Power – Cover And Description Reveal

By Cynthia Sax on October 8, 2021

Woot! I have a cover for Seizing Power. I have also crafted a very preliminary, completely unedited book description for this story. The description will likely change as it is a tad bit long. I was too excited about this story to keep its description short and snappy. (sheepish grin)

The cover was crafted by the always awesome Amanda Kelsey from Razzle Dazzle Design. I think Power looks a bit like Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, don’t you?

This cyborg believes he’s in control.

Power is the self-appointed leader of the cyborg council. Other members might debate situations. He makes the ultimate decisions.

When a threat to the Homeland is revealed, he takes command of a fleet and ventures to the edge of cyborg-controlled space to investigate. He finds a rebellion led by a mysterious upstart he calls Cadet.

The plan Power derives is simple—he’ll quickly quash the uprising and teach its leader a lesson the warrior will never forget.

NO ONE challenges his authority.

Eirene Ours might have been called a cadet by Power but she is NOT his subordinate. She is the arrogant E Model’s genetic match.

For much of her mature lifespan, she has desired the male, yearning for his dark-eyed gaze, craving his sure hands, longing for his respect.

That esteem was never granted. And Eirene Ours can no longer wait to earn it. There’s an external threat to their kind, a danger that might destroy them all.

Having lured Power to her home terrain, she now plans to use everything within her means – her fists, her daggers, her ship-destroying missiles – to pound that truth into her stubborn warrior’s thick metal skull.

The future of every cyborg is at stake. She can’t fail them.

Power will believe her. Or he will die.
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Seizing Power is a STANDALONE enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features an epic battle between two equally strong cyborg leaders, plans that go terribly yet passionately wrong, and a love that will shake the entire universe.

Seizing Power is the fifth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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Amazon, as always, is the first to list Seizing Power.

The other booksellers will list it soon.

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Throwback Thursday – Warlord Reunited

By Cynthia Sax on October 7, 2021

Berke and Elle from Warlord Reunited remind me a bit of Cadet/Eirene Ours and Power. Both of these couples have a lengthy, emotionally-challenging history. Berke and Elle met solar cycles ago. They had a whirlwind relationship, were wildly in love.

Then Berke sent Elle away. He didn’t give her any explanation. She was too proud to ask him for one.

Until circumstances brought them back together. THAT is where Warlord Reunited starts.

Warlord Reunited

This barbarian warrior’s cold demeanor hides the warmest of hearts.
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Solar cycles ago, Berke, a savage Chamele Warlord, found his gerel, the one being he is destined to be with for all time…except he couldn’t embrace that fate. He was fighting a series of brutal wars.

To protect his little human female, he conveyed her far from the Chamele sector. He then returned to the endless battles, concealing his pain, his anguish, his need, under a thick layer of ice.

His gerel was safe. That was all that mattered to him.

When Elle was a young bounty hunter, she bonded with an arrogant warrior on a distant planet. She was deliriously happy…for a while. Then he dumped her in a strange settlement far from his home and left, never to return.

Their parting caused her excruciating pain—both physical and emotional. She endured it, earned the esteemed role of head bounty hunter of an academy, salvaged a bit of a life from the disaster her primitive warrior had made of it.

Now, two of her bounty hunters have made the same terrible mistake. Elle is determined to rescue her friends and break their connections with their Chamele Warlords.

While she is in the sector, she plans to kill the warrior she’d once considered hers. Elle is ending her relationship with Berke…permanently.
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Warlord Reunited is based on a much shorter story sharing the same title.
It is a STANDALONE Alien Barbarian SciFi Romance featuring a warrior hero and a take-charge heroine set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

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Reemerging From The Pandemic Cave

By Cynthia Sax on October 6, 2021

Last week, the Dear Wonderful Hubby went to dinner with clients for the first time since the pandemic began. Everyone in the restaurant was fully vaxxed (that’s the law in our city).

He is also attending his first post pandemic conference this month in Vegas, will be answering questions (masked) in his employer’s booth. Everyone at the conference should be fully vaxxed. Booth workers will be tested every morning.

It has been a long time since we enjoyed face-to-face meetings. I feel like one of the cyborgs emerging from an underground laboratory after many human lifespans of seclusion. Everything feels new. The sun is a bit too bright. (grins) We have to relearn the world.

But I’m also excited. There are more possibilities. Anything (preferably positive) could happen.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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B Free And Heze 478

By Cynthia Sax on October 5, 2021

When we first meet Quinn, the heroine of B Free, the fourth core story in the Rebel Cyborgs series (releasing in November), she is positioned on Heze 478, a planet that has been invaded by the Humanoid Alliance and is doomed to be the site of one of their horrendous experiments.

Heze 478 is named after Heze, also known as Zeta Virginis A. Heze is one half of a binary star situated about 74 light-years from Earth’s sun. It is approximately double the size of our sun and is roughly half a billion years old.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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B Free And Beings For Peace

By Cynthia Sax on October 4, 2021

The organization Beings For Peace makes a reappearance in B Free, the fourth core story in the Rebel Cyborgs series (releasing in November).

Beings For Peace was first mentioned in Crash And Burn. It was the organization Safyre, Tifara, and Nymphia were aligned with.

Beings For Peace is focused on rescuing beings from planets invaded by the Humanoid Alliance and other aggressors. They try to be as non-violent as possible but they WILL kill to achieve their missions.

Quinn, the heroine of B Free, reaches out to Beings For Peace for assistance with a problem. The operative they send is…well…he makes me smile (and he is very much NOT the love interest).

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – October 3rd

By Cynthia Sax on October 3, 2021

Needing Valor, this year’s thank you short story (releasing in December), has been sent to my Awesome Editor! Woot! I think you’ll love this fun sexy tale. There are ‘ghosts’, an explosion, some jokes, steamy scenes. Thinking about Needing Valor makes me smile.

This upcoming week, I start writing Seizing Power, the fifth core story in the Rebel Cyborgs series (releasing in February)! I’ve been looking forward to telling this story for years, was forced to wait to do that because other events in the cyborg world had to happen first. I’m silly excited about this.

Have a wonderful week, my friends. (tackle hugs) Try to slow down a bit if you can. Time flies so quickly. Enjoy every moment of this magnificent life and be kind to yourself. Never doubt that you’re amazeballs because you ARE!

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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B Free, Researcher/Archaeologist Heroines And Indiana Jones

By Cynthia Sax on October 2, 2021

I originally believed Quinn, the heroine of B Free (releasing in November), was an Archaeologist.

But an Archaeologist, according to Dictionary.com, is “a specialist in archaeology, the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, etc.”

Peoples are defined as humans. Quinn studies ancient humans AND humanoids situated on numerous planets across the universe (her focus is dead civilizations).

I changed her role to Researcher. That gives her some flexibility over who she studies and how she studies them.

In my heart, however, I still view her as a more socially aware, futuristic, female Indiana Jones. (grins)

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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