Why You Should Pre-Order Raw Desires
Raw Desires, the third story in the Cyborg Unity series, officially releases on Tuesday. If you pre-order this story, you will likely receive it Monday night. You will be one of the first readers in the world to have it. (grins)
This story will have spoilers. If you pre-order it, you can avoid the bookseller and Goodreads pages for Raw Desires, and read it spoiler-free whenever you wish.
And you have the ability to read it that first day, knowing that thousands of other readers will be reading it at the same time. I find that magical. We will be situated all over the world yet be in the same reading space. That often only happens on release days.
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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If You Wish To Re-Read Stories…
You should be able to read Raw Desires (releasing on Tuesday or, if you’ve pre-ordered it, Monday night) on its own. Sure, it is the third story in the series but I think a new-to-the-series reader can pick it up and enjoy it.
However, if you wish to re-read some stories, I would suggest, of course, starting with the first two stories in the series (Provoking Odium and Grin And Bare Him).
Seizing Power is a great story to re-read also. Eirene Ours aka Cadet appears in the first chapter of Raw Desires.
Malice and Illona from Containing Malice make an appearance.
A Retriever also shows up. So Chasing Mayhem is another great story to re-read.
Yep. (grins) Quite a few stories tie into Raw Desires. And I LOVE that.
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires – Fourth Scene Of The First Chapter
Raw Desires, the third story in the Cyborg Unity series, releases next week! Woot!
Today, I’m sharing the fourth and final scene from the very first chapter.
You can read the first scene here:
http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=10449
***
The female cyborg’s gaze met hers.
Son of rock spider. Taytu froze in place. She’d been spotted.
It made no sense to hide from them now. They knew where she was.
She took a deep breath and stepped out from behind the panel. Her left hand was free. She held the detonator in her right palm.
The male cyborgs pointed their guns at her.
She tapped the detonator once, twice. Her body shook. This action had to be taken. This sacrifice had to be made.
For Fana, for her mom, for justice.
“Don’t be scared, little human.” The female cyborg holstered her guns. “We won’t hurt you.”
She held out her empty hands.
The male cyborgs also put away their weapons, leaving themselves defenseless and vulnerable.
Because they didn’t think she was a threat.
Taytu didn’t know whether to be relieved or insulted.
“There’s a 98.2563 percent probability she doesn’t speak the universal language.” One of the males shook his head. “The locals didn’t trade excessively with other beings.”
Taytu did speak the universal language. She had learned it at the academy.
But she said nothing because pretending she didn’t know what they were saying might give her a strategic advantage.
“She’s very small.” A second male tilted his head and studied her. “She might be offspring.”
They thought she was a child. It was a struggle for Taytu to conceal her disgust.
“She has breasts.” The female cyborg’s tone was dry.
“She’s very dirty.” The first male sniffed the air. “And she smells.”
“We only detected three lifeforms on the planet—two cyborgs and one human.” The female cyborg was clearly the leader. She was also the most intelligent being in the group. “She’s alone. There’s a 99.9999 percent probability she hasn’t seen another being since the Humanoid Alliance withdrew their forces from here. We’re fortunate she’s alive.”
They wouldn’t feel fortunate when she blew them all up.
Taytu tapped the detonator a third time.
“I’ve downloaded the files for the locals’ language.” The female cyborg’s gaze remained locked with hers. “You are safe with us.” She said that in very formal, very stiff Abeban. “We will not damage you.”
They might not plan to damage her. Taytu narrowed her eyes at them. But she planned to damage them. Her finger hovered over the detonator’s button.
“You are the genetic match for one of our warriors.” The female cyborg was talking pure idiocy.
They were the enemy, were the most senselessly violent beings in the universe. There was no fuckin’ way she was a genetic match for any of them.
“If you agree, we will transport you to our home planet.” The female cyborg surprised her with that offer. “You will be protected there. There is nourishment on our planet and beverage and others of your kind.”
There were no others of her kind. They were all dead. The female cyborg’s kind had killed them.
“There are also cleaning cloths.” One of the males said that in the universal language.
The female cyborg cast a hard glance at him, and his smile faded.
“It is your decision.” Her attention returned to Taytu. “But if you stay here, there is an 86.1258 percent probability you will die.”
There was a 100.0000 percent probability she’d die.
Because she had planned to blow herself up when she decimated them.
Though perhaps doing that now wasn’t the best use of her one lifespan.
Taytu shifted her gaze from cyborg to cyborg. There were three of them standing before her. And two cyborgs were sealed in the downed warship.
The female cyborg had offered to transport her to the cyborgs’ home planet. More enemy warriors would be situated there. She could target an entire structure occupied by male cyborgs.
And she liked the idea of striking out at her foes on their home planet. It was a place where they felt they were safe, where they believed no one would ever harm them.
As her family, her friends had thought they were safe, living peacefully on Yebeti Abeba.
Taytu slid the detonator into her pocket.
“I will go with you.” Her voice rasped with emotion.
She would pretend to be their warrior’s genetic match, would feign gratitude over being rescued. The cyborgs would lower their guard and start to trust her.
Then she would kill as many of them as she could manage.
Her loved ones would be avenged. She would meet her mom, dad, brothers, sisters, others—including baby Fana, in the land beyond.
It would be a good end.
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires And Taytu’s Wrist Decoration
Taytu, the heroine of Raw Desires (releasing on February 21st!), wears a wrist decoration. This family heirloom consists of braided vegetation and tiny carved stones.
Each stone represents a value of her culture.
The blue stone in a shape of a knot, as an example, represents forgiveness, one of Taytu’s kind’s core values.
A knot is a symbol of peacemaking, pacification, and reconciliation within the Ghanaian culture here on Earth. The knot, or Mpatapo, as they call their specific symbol, binds the two opposing parties, bringing them together.
Blue is also often associated, here on Earth, with forgiveness and harmony. I DO find if I wear blue, I tend to experience a bit more peace. That might be merely my perception, however. (grins)
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires And Battling Our Cultures
Taytu, the heroine of Raw Desires (releasing on February 21st), was raised in a culture where forgiveness was all important. Her kind embraced the concept of turning the other cheek. Hostility was frowned upon. As was vengeance.
Taytu, however, has too much anger, hate, grief within her battered soul to forgive her enemies. She wants justice for her loved ones. She fights to contain the rage within her.
But she IS conflicted.
Because the learnings from her past are d@mn difficult to discard. That culture is part of her and, even more challenging, it is part of the loved ones she seeks to avenge.
To walk away from her culture seems…disloyal and disrespectful.
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires – Third Scene Of The First Chapter
The countdown to the release day for Raw Desires continues!
I’m sharing the third scene from the first chapter this week.
You can read the first scene here:
http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=10449
***
“That’s a ship.” She searched the skies. “The freighter with supplies isn’t scheduled to arrive for another forty-three planet rotations.”
That meant…
“Oh shit.” She holstered her gun, ran back inside her temporary home, grabbed the detonator, and dashed out the door.
The planet was smaller than some moons. The wreckage of the warship wasn’t located far away from her makeshift domicile.
But she was racing a ship, and she was admittedly shorter than the average human.
She ran as fast as she could toward the downed ship.
That was faster than she could’ve moved at the academy. Solar cycles of traversing the planet, burying bodies, and training for battle had increased her strength and her speed.
The approaching ship was also flying very slowly. That helped her greatly.
If it was a Humanoid Alliance vessel, and she would bet her only gun the enemy had returned, the crew was likely looking for survivors they could shoot.
They wouldn’t find anyone other than herself on the planet.
Their kind had killed everyone else.
For no fuckin’ reason.
Taytu’s jaw clenched.
Her people had been peace-loving beings. They had installed no defenses, wouldn’t have reacted to the invasion with violence.
Yet the Humanoid Alliance had chosen to obliterate the Abebans, not negotiate with them.
If the deities were just, she would soon obliterate some of them.
The incoming vessel didn’t speed up.
She arrived at the warship wreckage before they did.
The bombs had already been set around the site. She’d been liberal with the explosives, wanting to decimate as many of her foes as possible.
They were fast fuckers, however. She had to catch them off guard.
Taytu palmed the detonator, hiding the device in her hand. Three taps of her fingertips against the button, followed by one long press, would activate it.
She positioned herself behind one of the warship’s exterior panels. That would serve as a shield.
And she waited.
The engine noise grew louder. An artificial wind swept over her hiding place.
There was a loud thump. The rocks near her booted feet rattled. The noise of the engines stopped.
She braced herself, preparing for the confrontation and her impending death. The pain and her sacrifice would be worth it to avenge her loved ones.
A little bit of justice would be gained for baby Fana. And for her mom. And for the thousands of other Abebans who had wanted nothing more than happiness and harmony with the universe.
“Ours.” A female voice uttered that one word. “We retrieve the human also.”
Taytu hadn’t expected a female to be part of the recovery team. Cyborg warriors and Humanoid Alliance officers were all male. She peeked around the exterior panel.
The being leading the group did appear to be female. Her breasts were prominent, were the size of Taytu’s head.
The rest of the female was also huge. She was clad in black body armor, and she had the gray skin and energy-infused blue eyes of an early model cyborg.
Female cyborgs were rare. And they weren’t warriors. They were created for the Humanoid Alliance’s failed breeding program.
Taytu’s resolve faltered.
She could blow up the others. Her gaze shifted to the left and to the right. Those cyborgs were all males. They could’ve been some of the warriors who slaughtered her family.
But killing one of their females felt wrong.
Stars. It all felt wrong.
No. She quashed that thought. Killing the enemy wasn’t wrong. It was necessary.
Cyborgs were manufactured to end lifespans, to cause pain and death.
They’d killed sweet little Fana. Images of that tiny corpse filled Taytu’s thoughts. Her baby fingers had been tangled trustingly in her mother’s hair. She’d been so small, so innocent.
Ending a lifespan like that was wrong, horrifically wrong, yet it hadn’t stopped the enemy.
She had to stop them before they killed another innocent.
Her chin lifted.
She looked around the barrier again.
The female cyborg was wearing body armor, and she held guns in both of her hands. Beings of peace didn’t carry weapons.
Fuck it.
Taytu glared at the group. She was blowing them all up.
***
Read the next scene (available February 13th) here:
http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=10455
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires And The Words We Speak Vs The Words We Know
Raw, the hero of Raw Desires (releasing on February 21st), feels comfortable speaking 5,082 words in the universal language.
This might seem low.
And it IS low. Raw is, admittedly, not skilled in communications. (grins)
But it isn’t as low as we might believe it is.
The average human male speaks 7,000 words a day.
Total.
Many of those words are repeated. Think of how many times we say ‘the’ or ‘a’ in a day.
Sure, the average person knows about 20,000 to 30,000 words in their birth language. Raw, in comparison, has millions of words in his databases.
But we tend to use the same words over and over.
For example, the first chapter of Raw Desires is 3,144 words long but it is crafty using only 1,030 unique words. I used ‘the’ 211 times and ‘her’ 128 times.
So having 5,082 words in regular rotation isn’t horrifying low.
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires And Talking With The Dead
In the first few scenes of Raw Desires, Taytu, the heroine, talks to her long deceased Mom.
Her Mom doesn’t talk back. She has been dead for solar cycles (years).
But Taytu knows her Mom so well she knows what her beloved departed parent would say. And talking to her gives Taytu comfort.
I also often ‘talk’ with my loved ones who have passed. I usually do this via thoughts, not spoken words.
‘Speaking’ with the dead gives me comfort. It ensures they remain part of my life and always reside in my heart. And I usually know what their replies would be also…because I know them.
Hey, this works for me. (grins) We do what we have to do to ease our sorrow and bring us happiness. And there’s nothing wrong with that!
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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Raw Desires – Second Scene Of The First Chapter
I’m sharing scenes from the first chapter of Raw Desires as we wait for its release on February 21st.
You can read the first scene of the first chapter here:
http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=10449
This week I’m sharing the second scene.
***
She turned and carefully navigated the spaces between the burial plots. Some of the mounds were heart-twistingly small. Her cousin’s daughter, Fana, had been born while Taytu was at the academy. She’d only seen the baby in images.
And she’d seen the infant in death. Taytu’s eyes stung. Fana had been clasped in her mother’s arms. One projectile had downed both of them.
Their enemy had no compassion, none at all. Her anger at the cyborgs flared once more, incinerating her grief, her sorrow, her guilt. She reveled in the hate. When she engaged her fury, she was spared the other, more difficult feelings.
It had kept her sane during the solar cycles of solitude, while she buried the dead and plotted the demise of those who had wronged her loved ones.
She continued to walk.
The land she trekked over was lifeless. No creatures scurried. No vegetation grew. There was no laughter of children or chirping of insects. Even the brook by the large rock was dry and silent.
The planet was alien to her. It bore little resemblance to her childhood home.
The Humanoid Alliance had destroyed everything.
Her shoulders rounded as she trudged into the small structure she’d constructed. To live in one of the dead’s homes felt…wrong. Her temporary living space was simple and shoddily put together, but it kept the rain off her face while she slept, and it ensured her few belongings remained dry.
Taytu extracted a nourishment bar from a storage container and took a swig of water from another container. While she ate and drank, she scrolled through the messages displayed on her handheld. Gezi and Kometa, two of her best friends from the academy, had both sent her multiple communications.
She sighed and plunked her ass on the fabric-covered vegetation she’d been using as a sleeping support. In twenty-one planet rotations, it would be exactly five solar cycles since she left the academy. She’d stopped talking to her friends that planet rotation.
Yet they continued to reach out to her. They didn’t know the being they’d known was gone forever, that her world now consisted of death and justice for the dead.
She didn’t respond to their messages, because she hadn’t anything to say to them. Goodbyes had been exchanged. She wouldn’t live through the implementation of her plans.
It was kinder to say nothing. She put the handheld aside.
Dirt covered her fingers and her flight suit. Even her short-cropped hair felt grimy.
Digging the grave for the boy had been messy work.
But he deserved that labor, that act of remembrance. They all did.
Seeking comfort and connection, Taytu skimmed her fingertips over the decoration on her wrist. It consisted of small polished stones held together by finely braided vegetation.
The heirloom piece had been handed down from generation to generation, had been restrung many times.
Her mom had been wearing it when she died.
Taytu often felt her mom’s presence in the stones. Her fingers stopped on a small rectangular one. It sported grooves.
That signified knowledge.
“I hear you. I hear you.” Her mom’s message was clear. Building her skillset should be her focus.
She swallowed the last bit of the nourishment bar, gulped some water, and rose to her booted feet.
There was no one around to view her filth. She could tidy herself later.
There was training to complete now.
This planet rotation’s session required weapons. She strapped three daggers and a modified gun to her form and marched out of the structure.
A mock cyborg was situated steps away from the door. It was constructed from branches, vegetation, and fabric.
She’d also located a set of body armor in the warship the Humanoid Alliance had crashed—the ship with two cyborgs trapped inside. The faux cyborg wore that protective garment.
Breaching that shield was one of her challenges. She drew the gun she’d altered, aimed, and fired.
The projectile struck her target. It shaved off some of the body armor, but it didn’t pierce that protective garment.
“What the fuck?” That wasn’t the result she expected.
She turned the gun to study it.
The weapon resembled the image of the other gun in the database. The modifications should work. The expert had boasted about downing cyborgs using it. He’d shown a set of body armor he’d blasted apart.
Taytu aimed at her target again and pressed the trigger.
The result was the same. The projectile merely grazed the protective garment.
“That expert was full of bovine shit.” She shook her head. “Maybe I need better projectiles.” She would research the possibilities and add a container of projectiles to her next order of supplies. “My daggers won’t penetrate the body armor either.”
The blades were solely for close-range defensive maneuvers, and even their effectiveness in those situations were in doubt. Cyborgs, according to her research, moved quicker than human eyesight could track. She’d likely be dead before she extracted her daggers from their sheaths.
“I’m back to relying on the explosives.” She’d mastered the ability to craft bombs. Those should blow up anything, including cyborgs and their irritating body armor. “I don’t like that. If the explosives fail—”
An artificial droning filled the air.
***
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
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Raw Desires And Timeframes
Raw Desires, the third core story in the Cyborg Unity series, is situated after Grin And Bare Him in the release schedule but actually starts before the action in Seizing Power begins.
Taytu, the heroine, is one of the genetic matches who reaches out to the cyborgs on the Homeland during the confrontation between Cadet (Eirene Ours) and Power. This is done off page in Seizing Power. We don’t hear her recording during that story but I thought it was important to include it in Raw Desires.
And I also thought it was important to show Cadet rescuing Taytu…because…well…it is. (grins) I can’t say more about that scene without it being a spoiler.
This sounds a bit confusing but all it means is…
the action in Raw Desires doesn’t start directly after Grin And Bare Him.
It starts between B Free and Seizing Power.
We’re jumping back in time a bit so we can see all those awesome first interactions between Raw and Taytu.
I don’t want you to miss anything!
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Raw Desires
(This description is VERY much unedited. My Awesome Editor, if she saw I was sharing it with you, would probably have an emotional meltdown.)
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
***
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors to have located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough and tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
***
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
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