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Setting Inspiration For Containing Malice

By Cynthia Sax on February 26, 2021

Almost all of the planets in my stories are nods to places (either past or present) here on Earth.

The Humanoid Alliance’s laboratory is situated on a rock spire in Containing Malice. This spire is surrounded by extremely acidic water.

There are places with extremely acidic water on Earth. Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, for example, has an average pH of 0.2 (and it hosts life!). If writing buddies are looking for a super cool setting, this is DEFINITELY one. It doesn’t look like it belongs on our world.

Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression – Photo Crafted By And Indirectly Purchased From
Artush

But the images I had in my mind while writing Containing Malice were the gorgeous rock spires I’ve seen in places like Australia and Hawaii. They are separated by the land by the ocean or other bodies of water. The water has eroded their connections to the mainland. I view them as a physical manifestation of loneliness, of being cut off from everything and everyone.

Rock Formations located along the Great Ocean Road in Australia – Photo taken by and indirectly purchased via Book Brush from: Jonny Joka

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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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