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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – October 18th

By Cynthia Sax on October 18, 2020

Today, I’m crafting my newsletter. This newsletter, being sent tomorrow, will include a never-seen-anywhere-else ‘bonus’ scene featuring Kralj and Dita. Thank you, Tiffany J, for recommending I give an update on them!

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Warlord’s Return brings us back to the Refuge, which is, of course, Kralj and Dita’s home. We’ll visit with them, the triplets, many of the other modified humanoids and their mates.

This week, I should complete the first draft of Containing Malice (releasing in February). I love this story. Malice and his heroine are magical together. I think this will start the new year off with a bang. Yes, there are explosions. (grins) I love blowing things up…on page.

Oh and More Medieval Dragon Shifters, the next short story collection published under C.S. Sax, will be releasing on Tuesday! This collection includes three super hot 60 page short stories featuring dragon shifting knights, their fated maidens, and a few battles. (laughs) I like battles also.

If you need a lunch time escape and you love your heroes primitive and extremely dominant, More Medieval Dragon Shifters might be a great collection for you!

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More Medieval Dragon Shifters

They’re primitive and possessive and they love with all the passion in their big dragon hearts.

Escape into a medieval fantasy world with these three lunch-hour-length romances.

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Warlord’s Return – Ariq’s Name

By Cynthia Sax on October 17, 2020

All the Chameles are named after Khans and other notable individuals in the Mongol Empire. Ariq is no exception to this.

Ariq Böke was a grandson of Genghis Khan. He claimed the title of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and ruled for five years while his brothers were away from home.

When one of his brothers returned, that, predictably, created conflict and a civil war. (shakes head) That war didn’t end well for Ariq Böke.

Ariq, the hero of Warlord’s Return, faces a battle also… with his fated mate, Xareni. Our Chamele warrior’s war will end very differently. (grins) Making peace with his battle-happy female will require fewer items of clothing and much more touching.

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Warlord’s Return

Ariq is a barbarian warrior seeking a war.

He locates that battle when he meets Xareni.

* * *

Ariq finds that conflict and more when he meets his fated mate.

She’s a monster and monsters don’t need anyone.

* * *

Warlord’s Return is a STANDALONE Alien Barbarian SciFi Romance featuring a determined barbarian warrior, an equally resolute human female, and an eyeball-eating mini dragon.

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Warlord’s Return And Mini Dragons

By Cynthia Sax on October 16, 2020

Xareni, the heroine of Warlord’s Return, is a loner. She doesn’t like spending time with other beings, avoids settlements and crowds of any kinds.

She DOES, however, have a companion – Spark, a drakon, a mini-dragon with an attitude as defined as hers. Xareni loves Spark and Spark loves Xareni…in his own irritable way.

Spark’s official role is her hunting partner as shown in this snippet…

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A human male wearing ragged remnants of a Humanoid Alliance uniform waited by a path utilized by the clones. He was hidden by a huge boulder.

Spark had spotted him easily. The little drakon now circled high above the male’s head. The creature’s wings were spread wide as he glided on the breeze. The rays of Carinae E’s single sun reflected off his green scales.

She had found Spark in one of the markets. He had breathed fire at every being who passed his stone cage, had bitten the merchant trying to sell him, taking a huge chunk out of one of his thumbs. The drakon was almost as surly as she was.

Xareni had to buy him, spending some of the precious credits she’d earned from escorting idiots around the planet. She had set him free. Spark refused to leave her.

Now, they were a team. He was her eyes from the sky, and she helped him down prey he was too small to kill.

At the moment, their prey was the Humanoid Alliance male.

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Spark is very much part of Xareni’s family. I sometimes joke that Warlord’s Return is a romance between Ariq, Xareni AND Spark because Ariq will have to win BOTH of them over to secure Xareni’s allegiance.

It is a good thing the Chamele warrior loves challenges. (grins)

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Ariq is a barbarian warrior seeking a war.

He locates that battle when he meets Xareni.

* * *

Ariq finds that conflict and more when he meets his fated mate.

She’s a monster and monsters don’t need anyone.

* * *

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Throwback Thursday – Hers To Command

By Cynthia Sax on October 15, 2020

Hers To Command is an extremely unique story in the Cyborg Sizzle series. All the other stories center around a Male/Female relationship. The relationship construct in Hers To Command is Male/Male/Female.

The characters I write about are who they are. (shrugs) My choice is to write their stories or to not write their stories. I can decide what to mention in their stories but I can’t ethically change who they are.

Ace and Thrasher, the cyborgs, share a special bond. That’s part of who they are.

Their relationship isn’t public. They’re concerned about sharing that information with others, about how others would react to it.

And their bond isn’t complete. They realize something…someone is missing.

That being is Carys. She’s an older female, a Commander of a Rebel Battle Station. Carys is accustomed to battle, to fighting for what she believes in and, if that means angering others (i.e. the Humanoid Alliance or others), so be it.

Ace, Thrasher and Carys and their relationship will change the lifespans of many cyborgs. There ARE cyborgs whose genetic matches will be males or multiple beings or beings with fluid sexes or genders or beings whose senses of self are beyond our current human understanding. Those cyborgs deserve happiness and acceptance also.

(Note: Looking at my list of stories to write, I, unfortunately, won’t be telling any of those stories in the near future. Every cyborg I’ll be writing about over the next 4 years has a female genetic match. Again, I can’t control that. The cyborgs are who they are. But some not-featured or not-yet-featured cyborgs will definitely be enjoying different relationship constructs.)

Hers To Command also gives us our first on-page introduction to Ghost and Lethe from Ghost Of A Machine. (grins) I love those two so very much.

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Three Battered Hearts. One Perfect Love

Ace and Thrasher share a special bond. They’ve never acknowledged that connection and have never fully acted on it. The Humanoid Alliance kill cyborg males like them, deeming the warriors to be defective. Now that Ace and Thrasher have escaped, they don’t trust the cyborg council and their brethren to react any differently. Physical love is too risky for them to consider.

Until they meet her.

Carys is the Commander of a Rebel Battle Station. She has dedicated her lifespan to seeking vengeance against the Humanoid Alliance and the cyborgs who killed her daughter. On her battle station, she makes the rules, and if she wants to kiss, touch, and pleasure two mysterious warriors, she will. Nothing, not even enemy warships and a mass cyborg rebellion, can stop her.

In the midst of a war, enemies can become lovers and loyalties can change in a moment. Can a forbidden relationship between two cautious cyborgs and one unbending human Commander survive?

Hers To Command is Book 8 in the Cyborg Sizzle series.
Due to the number of returning characters in this story, you’ll enjoy Hers To Command more if you’ve read the other stories first.
This is a MMF BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance.

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Warlord’s Return And The Winged Triplets

By Cynthia Sax on October 14, 2020

Part of the fun for me, when writing Warlord’s Return, was catching up with Kralj, Dita, and the rest of the modified humanoids and their mates in the Refuge

That included Jeden, Vietor and Dialo, Orol and Rhea’s sons (Orol and Rhea’s story is Dark Flight). The winged triplets are physically mature and they are causing SO much trouble. (grins) I love them so much.

Here is a snippet featuring them…

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“We haven’t gotten stuck in a cave in…” Jeden looked at his brothers. “Has it been eleven planet rotations since you got stuck in that cave on the west side?”

“I wasn’t stuck.” Vietor’s face darkened.

“Dad had to claw away a section of the rock.” Dialo elbowed his brother.

“I merely couldn’t move.” Vietor said that as though there was a difference between the two situations. “It happens.”

“I hope it doesn’t happen often.” Xareni shook her head.

The young males chattered about deadly creatures they’d encountered or had heard about or, in the case of the flying bovine with projectile-shooting horns, she suspected, had imagined.

Arms were punched. Backs were slapped.

It was too much…activity for Xareni. Seeking space and quiet, she drifted away from the youths.

Ariq, carrying Spark, moved with her. “If you’re concerned about them, I have claws.” Her barbarian extended and then retracted his natural weapons. “I can free him…or them.” He glanced back at the males. “We have to assume all three of them have gotten stuck in caves in the past.”

That was a valid assumption. The triplets were flying disasters.

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(grins) They add some excitement to an already exciting adventure. Yes, they ARE flying disasters. And I absolutely adore them.

I can’t wait to write the next generation stories, both featuring the modified humanoids’ children and the cyborgs’ offspring.

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Warlord’s Return

Ariq is a barbarian warrior seeking a war.

He locates that battle when he meets Xareni.

* * *

Ariq finds that conflict and more when he meets his fated mate.

She’s a monster and monsters don’t need anyone.

* * *

Warlord’s Return is a STANDALONE Alien Barbarian SciFi Romance featuring a determined barbarian warrior, an equally resolute human female, and an eyeball-eating mini dragon.

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Warlord’s Return And Kralj

By Cynthia Sax on October 13, 2020

In Warlord’s Return, the Chameles return to Carinae E and the Refuge, home to Kralj and Dita from Dark Thoughts. Kralj and Dita play important roles in this story.

Ariq first met Kralj and Dita in Dark Cure. We didn’t ‘hear’ his impressions of Kralj in that story but we do hear them in Warlord’s Return.

Here is a snippet of a scene from Chapter One

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A shadowed face appeared on the main viewscreen. He straightened. That darkened countenance belonged to Kralj, the Ruler of the Refuge.

A surge of energy flowed over Ariq. It lifted the small hairs on his arms, caused his skin to tingle.

The all-powerful, all-knowing modified humanoid was one of the scariest beings he had ever encountered. His unique abilities extended through the communication lines.

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Xareni, Warlord’s Return, has a deeper, more complex relationships with Kralj. She has known the Ruler since she was a young girl, long before Dark Thoughts.

The nature of their relationship is hinted at in this scene from Chapter Two

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Kralj, the Ruler of the Refuge, Carinae E’s largest settlement, had given her an order.

Not being an idiot, she’d obey it. Kralj was all-knowing, all-powerful, could kill beings with his mind alone yet preferred to rip them apart and devour their flesh.

No one with a functioning brain disrespected the Ruler.

And she owed him…everything. She touched the hilts of her blades. Whatever he asked, she did.

Someday it might be enough to offset her debt to him.

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If you met Kralj in Dark Thoughts, you will receive an update on him and on Dita and more details about his past. If you haven’t yet met Kralj…brace yourself for an experience. (grins)

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Warlord’s Return

Ariq is a barbarian warrior seeking a war.

He locates that battle when he meets Xareni.

* * *

Ariq finds that conflict and more when he meets his fated mate.

She’s a monster and monsters don’t need anyone.

* * *

Warlord’s Return is a STANDALONE Alien Barbarian SciFi Romance featuring a determined barbarian warrior, an equally resolute human female, and an eyeball-eating mini dragon.

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Warlord’s Return – Second Scene Of The First Chapter

By Cynthia Sax on October 12, 2020

As we wait for the release of Warlord’s Return on November 3rd, I’ve been sharing scenes from the first chapter.

You can read the first scene from the first chapter of Warlord’s Return here:
http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=7513

This week I’m sharing the second scene of that first chapter.

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There was no one currently occupying the training chambers. That was unfortunate for him. Ariq rolled his shoulders back. He would have liked to spar with someone, to burn off his excess energy.

But it was fortunate for another being on board the warship.

“Zondoo.” He uttered that curse loudly, seeking to get Lysagh’s attention. The bounty hunter-in-training was likely hidden in the ceiling space somewhere. “According to the schedule.” He moved to the control panel by the door and accessed that information. “No one will be using this training chamber for an entire shift.”

He blocked that duration, ensuring that would be its reality. A shift should be sufficient time for the girl to use the chamber’s facilities, perhaps have a short rest.

Ariq reached upward, removed a panel from the ceiling. There was a scurrying noise, as though the warship was infested with massive rodents…or with one young human girl.

“I’ll store these excess supplies here.” He placed the cleaning cloths, container of beverage, and nourishment bars in the space.

Lysagh had hidden aboard the warship during takeoff. Her presence had been detected immediately. His Warlord, his Second, and their gerels had decided to grant the girl the trip she so desperately wanted.

Ariq had convinced them to ignore her presence, to act as though they weren’t aware she was on board. Lysagh wanted to be a stealth occupant.

He would honor her wish.

“I’ll return in one shift.” He stressed that duration as he replaced the ceiling tile. “There might be warriors to battle here at that time.”

He exited the training chamber. The doors slid closed behind him.

Ariq’s next stop was the medic bay.

Seven-One, a Chamele clone, was its only occupant. He stared into a device.

“Lead Medic located the DNA of my source’s source’s source.” The clone’s voice was tinged with awe, with reverence. “I’m looking at it, at the start of it all.”

The male was young also. There were few scars on his form.

“That’s…good?” Ariq guessed at that response. Science wasn’t his skill set.

“It’s a miracle.” Seven-One looked at him. His eyes glowed. “We might be able to track the degradation.” Every generation of the youth’s kind—Chamele clones—had more and more genetic weakness. “We could also separate the added enhancements from the original DNA.”

The clones on Carinae E had fixed the degradation issue. That was the reason Seven-One was joining them on the trip.

Everyone on board the warship had a purpose for visiting the planet…except for Ariq.

Ariq had no purpose at the moment. Anywhere.

And he had no place in any group. He was too seasoned a warrior to spend excessive time with the youths and, unlike the other males with his number of solar cycles, he had no gerel for companionship.

All he had was a burning desire to fight, and that wasn’t needed. Not on the ship. Not in the Chamele sector.

“I’ll leave you to your task.” He nodded at Seven-One, left the medic bay, continued on his route to the bridge.

His pace was slow. Second and Qulpa were currently situated on the bridge.

He had trained with Second since they first held swords. Qulpa had been their pilot for many solar cycles, many skirmishes. They were his brothers-in-arms, and he would kill for them, die for them.

Normally, he would also rush to see them, to exchange battle stories, to talk fighting strategy. In the past, that had alleviated some of his os khonzon, his need for vengeance.

But since the warriors had obtained gerels, his relationship with them had changed, as had the focus of their discussions.

Their Warlord had found his gerel, now had a baby son. Second and Qulpa were venturing along the same route.

And Chameles were at peace. Talk of killing, of battle, of death, was no longer appropriate.

The males were focused on their females, on children, on homes and families. They tried to include him in their chatter.

Ariq tolerated that conversation. He sighed. Debates over the ideal number of chambers in domiciles didn’t ease his need to kill.

It increased that urge.

And he was achingly conscious he no longer fit into the group. He was the exception, the different one, would be that way forever.

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Read the next scene (available October 19th) here: http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=7517

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Warlord’s Return

Ariq is a barbarian warrior seeking a war.

He locates that battle when he meets Xareni.

* * *

Ariq finds that conflict and more when he meets his fated mate.

She’s a monster and monsters don’t need anyone.

* * *

Warlord’s Return is a STANDALONE Alien Barbarian SciFi Romance featuring a determined barbarian warrior, an equally resolute human female, and an eyeball-eating mini dragon.

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