Taste of Cyn

Containing Malice And Writing The Next Story

By Cynthia Sax on February 6, 2021

Some reading buddies have asked me why I’m revising the short(er) stories for a C.S. collection (Medieval Beasts, likely releasing at the end of March) and not diving right into the next story in the Rebel Cyborgs series.

Under Strain, Book 2 in the series, has already been written. It is now with my Awesome Editor. She’s likely looking at it as I’m typing this and plans to return it to me in a week or so.

All the stories in the Rebel Cyborgs series are standalones. They can be read on their own. But they also build. What happened in Containing Malice will change what happens in Under Strain. What happens in Under Strain will change what happens in Baring Grudge.

It is ideal that I wait until my Awesome Editor has given me her insights on Under Strain before I start Baring Grudge. Rewriting to incorporate major changes usually takes longer for me than waiting and, for me, it often weakens the story. I want to give you the best stories I can craft.

So I’m waiting.

My brain also needs a vacation between cyborg stories. The cyborg stories take SO much out of me creatively and emotionally. I LOVE that but I also need a break.

The short stories give me that break. They are short (grins) and light and they are set in a completely different world in a completely different niche of romance.

Other writers have their own processes. We all do what works for us and this schedule is working for me at the moment.

I’m excited about Under Strain. I think you’ll really enjoy this story. And I’m stoked about the scenes I’ve envisioned for Baring Grudge. I think you’ll be excited about that story also.

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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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