Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite tropes both to write and to read.
Provoking Odium, however, is the first story I’ve written to have the human heroine being referred to as the Beast.
Briella has earned that nickname for a number of reasons – some admirable and some not-so-good.
She is a beast in the air. Briella flies into dangerous situations other beings would avoid. She does this to save lifespans. Her courage is tremendous.
And her flying skills are amazeballs. She loves to fly. And flying loves her. (grins)
The human heroine of Provoking Odium is also extremely scarred. She is aware that beings tend to react terribly to her appearance. So she avoids that rejection by rejecting them first.
Odium, the cyborg hero, doesn’t accept that rejection. And he certainly doesn’t react terribly to her appearance. (laughs)
Provoking Odium
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board their ship to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect, and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them both before they have the opportunity to meet.
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