Taste of Cyn

Containing Malice And The Pandemic

By Cynthia Sax on January 29, 2021

Some writing buddies and I were discussing the impact the pandemic had and is having on our writing. I shared that Containing Malice was definitely influenced by the Great Pause.

I had envisioned this first story in the Rebel Cyborgs series being set in an underground laboratory years before COVID-19 happened. Underground laboratories are super cool. (grins) Of course, I would want to set a story there.

But being confined to my own home during the pandemic gave me a tiny glimpse into what Illona, Malice, Valor and Febris were dealing with. I didn’t have total freedom of movement. The outside was a bit scary, was the great unknown. I felt restricted and confined.

Having experienced that made writing this story easier in some ways. I had a taste of what they were enduring. But more difficult in other ways. It was more real for me, more emotional.

I hope you feel that emotion in this story and it adds to your enjoyment of it.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

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Malice, a C Model cyborg, has spent his long lifespan enslaved by the Humanoid Alliance. His cruel manufacturers have hurt him in all the ways a male could be hurt.

His enemy has now added a new weapon to their arsenal—a tiny human medic with soft hands and a delectable scent. She experiments on him multiple times a shift, delivering pain…and frustration.

He wants her. He also seeks retribution.

Once Malice frees himself, he plans to achieve both of his goals, taking Medic Illona captive and ending her research…permanently.

Illona is as much a prisoner as the cyborgs she experiments on. Since her arrival at the Human Alliance’s secret laboratory, she has carefully, stealthily, crafted a plot to free her test subjects. To conceal her covert activities, the medic has been forced to harm beings rather than heal them.

The being she has damaged the most is also the cyborg she fiercely desires— Malice, a huge, gray-skinned, blue-eyed C Model with massive hands and a voice deeper than space. He hates her, has good reason to do so, and, when he’s freed, there’s a high probability he’ll kill her.

Illona will take that risk to ensure he survives.

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Containing Malice is a STANDALONE enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It is the first 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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