First Scene From The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
Woot! The countdown to the release of The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is on! That means I’ll be sharing the first chapter of the story over the next few weeks.
Today, I’m sharing the first scene of the first chapter.
The battle for the thirty strides of terrain had been fierce. Stealth’s form was riddled with projectiles. Hunks of flesh hung off his face and chest. His back had been blasted bare by explosions, his body armor long gone. The pain was excruciating.
He had a smile on his face.
Being a K Model cyborg, he loved to fight. His brutal masters, the Humanoid Alliance, had manufactured him for that purpose. He and his brethren remained enslaved to them and couldn’t choose their opponents, but they could defeat them with zeal.
That wasn’t the reason for his joy.
After ten planet rotations of separation, he would finally return to the Humanoid Alliance base with his brethren. He would see his female, the one being genetically compatible with him.
From the moment, Zebrina, the commander’s daughter, had arrived on Ahki, he had been hers. He’d been standing outside with his fighting batch, being inspected for damage. She’d skipped down the ramp, her generous curves jiggling, her black curls bouncing against her brown cheeks.
His female had been a vibrant beam of hope in a gray and dismal world. Everyone, including himself, had been drawn to her.
Then her delectable scent filled his nostrils and that attraction multiplied exponentially. His circuits surged. His heart pounded. A part of him that had been deactivated came online. It had taken all of his willpower to keep his expression blank.
She said hi to everyone, her light, bubbly tone belying the keen intelligence in her big blue eyes. Stealth and his fellow cyborgs had been included in her greeting, much to their delight.
The commander, a harsh human she referred to irreverently as Daddy, told her not to talk to the machines. Zebrina giggled and said they looked like her dollies.
She then brushed her fingers across Stealth’s right shoulder, a light touch he felt to his metal frame, and he knew the attraction was mutual. Their relationship was doomed. She was human, the daughter of his tormenter, and he was a cyborg, designed to die fighting.
Every moment with her was a gift, a reward for having survived as long as he had.
He scanned his assigned area. The vegetation was scorched. A structure had been demolished. The light-blue bodies of Ahkian Rebels lay twisted on the ground, their eyes open and unseeing.
There were no lifeforms remaining.
Lethal. He contacted the E Model to the left of him. Cover my section. I’m scouting the terrain ahead of us.
Their replacements would be pushing the front line forward. Those warriors would be more successful at doing that if they knew what they were facing.
They certainly couldn’t count on the intel they were given by the Humanoid Alliance. Their human masters viewed them as disposable weapons and didn’t make any effort to verify the information, not caring if cyborgs were terminated.
He and his brethren were on their own.
I’ll cover half of your section. Boom, the warrior to his right, beat his foe with another humanoid’s detached leg.
The C Model had use of only one of his arms. The other one had been severed to the circuits by a wayward missile and his nanocybotics hadn’t yet repaired it.
I’ll miss the fighting when we reach the Homeland. His friend talked constantly of the cyborg-controlled planet, a place where all warriors were free. According to transmissions, there’s no killing there.
You can fight me in the training rings. Lethal threw a rock across the expanse.
It pinged off the C Model’s metal-encased skull. That wouldn’t be any challenge.
Frag you. The two nattered back and forth.
Stealth had been stationed with the males after surviving his training and they had fought together since then. The two warriors had saved his lifespan multiple times, always protected his back.
He would do anything for them and they would do anything for him.
Assured his area was covered, he sprinted forward, moving at cyborg speed through the cleared terrain. Corpses were strewn over the ground.
The Ahkian Rebels were fighting for their freedom, for their home planet, for the right to exist. He had sympathy for the beings. If he had the choice, he wouldn’t fight them.
He didn’t have a choice. If he refused to fight, the Humanoid Alliance would know cyborgs had free will and couldn’t be completely controlled. They would decommission not only him but every warrior in the universe, subjecting them to the most severe agony possible before ending their lifespans.
Either the Rebels died or he and his brethren did. His loyalty belonged to his own kind.
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple/iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cyborgs-secret-baby-cynthia-sax/1128976169
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cyborg-s-secret-baby
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/870968
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby And Wartime Single Moms
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a nod to all of those brides and wives during World War I and II and other early wars who sent their men off to war, unaware they’d soon have new additions to their families.
I think of their stories as being the original secret baby romances. There wasn’t a big misunderstanding. There was a man and a woman separated by battle, by distance and lack of effective communication. Letters got lost or were extremely delayed. Maybe the woman didn’t want to distract or worry her love while he was fighting so she kept the news to herself.
She wasn’t alone. People banded together to help during those times of crisis. But she was temporarily (and perhaps permanently) a single mother. Their new baby was HER responsibility. She was raising the child.
And, like Zebrina, the heroine in The Cyborg’s Secret Baby, she didn’t know when or if the man she loved would return. She had to be strong for their baby while she worried and missed him.
THAT is a kick a$$ heroine deserving of love.
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple/iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cyborgs-secret-baby-cynthia-sax/1128976169
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cyborg-s-secret-baby
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/870968
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Why I Wrote The Cyborg’s Secret Baby Now
I’ve read many Secret Baby Romances. Often the stories start AFTER the Secret Baby is born, usually when the child is a toddler. Then we slowly find out about the couple’s relationship prior to the birth.
With The Cyborg’s Secret Baby, I felt it important to start with Stealth and Zebrina’s prior relationship. So much happens and it is so emotional. I felt I would be cheating you if I didn’t show those scenes right away.
This means Chapter One of The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is set BEFORE the cyborgs mass rebel. In the series timeline, that would place it before Hers To Command, Story 8.
Why then did I write it now and not many stories ago?
Because the second half of the story occurs AFTER Taking Vengeance, the last story released in the series. Vengeance and Astrid make an appearance in The Cyborg’s Secret Baby. They are important for the plot.
It sounds complicated but it works! I promise you!
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby could only be written now, in this place in the series. (The split timeline is one of the reasons I’ve written it outside the core series.)
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple/iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cyborgs-secret-baby-cynthia-sax/1128976169
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cyborg-s-secret-baby
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/870968
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby And A Cyborg Shortage
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby (releasing in September) is designed to be read on its own. You don’t have to read any of the previous cyborg stories to enjoy it. Any information you need to know is contained in the story.
However, if you HAVE read the other cyborg stories, you’ll gleam additional insights about the world. You’ll have inside information about why some points are important.
You’ll also better understand why Tau Ceti is key to our hero’s dire situation in Chapter One.
The story starts before the cyborgs mass rebel. Stealth, our hero, and his cyborg brethren, are fighting for the Humanoid Alliance. They’re in a battle they can’t win.
The reason they can’t win it is they will soon be outnumbered. Why are they outnumbered?
Because the Humanoid Alliance blew up Tau Ceti.
Tau Ceti was the site of the cyborg manufacturing facility. Blowing up the planet destroyed the facility. This means no new cyborgs can be created until that facility is replaced.
This causes a shortage. Cyborgs who are killed in battle or decommissioned because they were ‘malfunctioning’ or managed to escape aren’t being replaced.
Cyborgs are difficult to kill and very few of them can escape without drawing the Humanoid Alliance’s attention. The lack of replacement cyborgs wouldn’t be a huge issue except blowing up Tau Ceti caused another key thing to happen.
Other species have joined the war against the Humanoid Alliance.
The Humanoid Alliance blew up a rare life-supporting planet, killed every being on the surface. Species who looked the other way during the previous atrocities could no longer ignore their activities. They are adding their fighting forces, their military resources to the Rebel’s war efforts.
The Rebel forces are expanding while the Humanoid Alliance cyborg forces are dwindling. The disparity in numbers is growing larger with every passing planet rotation.
Our cyborg hero and his friends are doomed and they know it.
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple/iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cyborgs-secret-baby-cynthia-sax/1128976169
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cyborg-s-secret-baby
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/870968
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby And Reading Order
I’m received some questions about where in the cyborg series The Cyborg’s Secret Baby (releasing September 25th) belongs. DOES it belong in the cyborg series?
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is written very much as a standalone. There’s only one recurring couple (Vengeance and Astrid). You don’t need to know about that couple to enjoy the story. Anything that has happened in the series that you need to know for The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is explained. I assume this will be the first story some folks will read.
But it belongs in the cyborg world and it could have been part of the series. The reason I wrote this outside the series is, being a secret baby romance, part of the story happens before the mass cyborg rebellion and part of the story happens after the mass cyborg rebellion.
If you’re already a cyborg series reader, I recommend reading it after Taking Vengeance (i.e. in the order the stories are released). If you’re brand new to the series, you can read it first with no difficulties.
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple/iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cyborgs-secret-baby-cynthia-sax/1128976169
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cyborg-s-secret-baby
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/870968
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby Available For Pre-order
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby, my contribution to the awesome In The Stars multi-author series, is releasing September 25th and is available for pre-order now.
This story is loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series but can be read on its own.
Despite its fun title, this IS a dark story. It made my awesome editor cry three times. That’s an all time record. There are some laughs, however, and it IS a romance with the expected romance ending.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple/iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cyborgs-secret-baby-cynthia-sax/1128976169
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cyborg-s-secret-baby
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/870968
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