Throwback Thursday – Testing Truth

By Cynthia Sax on December 22, 2022

I think of Testing Truth as a fairytale in space. (grins) There’s an unlikely human princess, Nancy, and an even more unlikely cyborg prince, Truth, and they undertake an extremely dangerous mission together.

This story is also very much about found family.

Truth has, of course, his brethren. And they ARE his brothers in every sense other than biological.

Princess Nancy has her entourage. They give her the love her Royal biological family can’t provide.

These two unique beings then find each other. (smiles)

I hope you know you are part of my found family. (big hugs) You aren’t alone this holiday season. I am merely an email away.

Testing Truth

A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.

***

Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts every call of adventure he encounters.

When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel structure Truth is occupying, seeking a mercenary to assist her and her unusual entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their assignment is dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.

That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.

Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her estranged brother from an enemy prison ship. That is her duty, and she has been trained to always place the needs of her planet and her subjects before her own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain dark-haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.

But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough hands, tempts her as no one else ever has. He could be her one fleeting act of rebellion before she’s matched with the powerful ruler her planet requires.

If they survive their current mission.

Their love is doomed. Their lifespans are at risk. This cyborg and his princess will need the help of every ally they have if they wish to see another sunrise.

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By Cynthia Sax on December 21, 2022

One of the greatest feelings in the world is when a new-to-you cat chooses you, when they choose you to trust, to care for them, to protect them.

Other fur babies might love everyone but the average cat is cautious. They’re wary. They are selective. It is a HUGE deal when they select us.

One of the (many) reasons I knew the Dear Wonderful Hubby had a kind soul was… cats LOVE him. He’s very much allergic to most of them yet, if there is a cat within a couple blocks of him, that cat is winding around his shoes, loving on him.

Ceridwen, the heroine of Over Torque, was chosen by her feral street cat, Princess. They have a complicated relationship, as happens with feral cats, but Princess clearly adores her human. And her human adores her back. (smiles)

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Over Torque

The safest place in the universe is in a cyborg’s arms.

Ceridwen has arranged transport for her and her cat on a freighter. They hope to find a new start and sanctuary on a distant planet.

That dream is blasted to bits when the Humanoid Alliance attacks the ship.

Torque, an E Model cyborg, is searching for wreckage to blow up. He and his friend locate an escape pod attached to the remnants of a freighter.

Inside that small craft are two lifeforms.

Both of these beings will change Torque’s lifespan forever.


Over Torque is a short, light, companion story set in the cyborg world and is meant to be read after Provoking Odium.

This Cyborg Romance features an explosion-loving cyborg warrior, a cautious human female, and her discerning cat.

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By Cynthia Sax on December 16, 2022

Ceridwen, the heroine of Over Torque, this year’s FREE short story, has a cat. Or rather, the cat has her. (grins) Princess is definitely in charge of their relationship.

Her cat is described as “an ancient Earth creature” but I suspect variations of cats are found all over the universe. Because there are variations of rodents all over the universe and something has to keep those populations stable.

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Over Torque

The safest place in the universe is in a cyborg’s arms.

Ceridwen has arranged transport for her and her cat on a freighter. They hope to find a new start and sanctuary on a distant planet.

That dream is blasted to bits when the Humanoid Alliance attacks the ship.

Torque, an E Model cyborg, is searching for wreckage to blow up. He and his friend locate an escape pod attached to the remnants of a freighter.

Inside that small craft are two lifeforms.

Both of these beings will change Torque’s lifespan forever.


Over Torque is a short, light, companion story set in the cyborg world and is meant to be read after Provoking Odium.

This Cyborg Romance features an explosion-loving cyborg warrior, a cautious human female, and her discerning cat.

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Throwback Thursday – North Bound

By Cynthia Sax on December 15, 2022

North Bound features one of my all time favorite secondary characters – Steve, the male-eating plant ruler of Balazoid Minor.

Steve respects Myrina the Magnificent, the heroine of the story. He eventually grows to respect North, the cyborg hero, though he never truly likes him. (grins) The two of them are too similar for that.

This is an enemies-to-lovers romance with plenty of action and explosions and, of course, hot passion.

North Bound

A mission-focused cyborg battles a captivating and dramatic distraction.

***

North, the second-in-command of a cyborg crew, has two priorities—he has to explore and collect data on Balazoid Minor, a small planet in their sector, and he must bring his three-being team back to the ship alive and fully functional.

When he encounters his brash, bravado-wielding female, the one being genetically designed for him, he recognizes her for what she is—a distraction that might get him and his brethren killed. He WILL claim her, but only on his terms, when his mission is complete and everyone he is responsible for protecting is safe.

Myrina the Magnificent is the best warrior on her planet and possibly the universe. She has captured an unparalleled fourteen males for her all-female tribe. Once she has secured the fifteenth male, she will be a legend. Her name will live forever. She’ll earn the undying adoration of her sisters. Glory will be hers.

The male in her sights—and in her snare—is a huge, gray-skinned, blue-eyed cyborg with a skill for war and lips designed for kissing. One emotionally charged battle is all it takes for Myrina to realize she wants North for herself. She won’t share his caresses with anyone.

Their forbidden love might be destined to be, but it won’t be easy to maintain. Myrina will have to fight her sisters, an all-powerful male-eating plant, and her cyborg’s unbending will to make North hers and hers alone.

***

North Bound is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It is the fifth of six core stories in the Cyborg Space Exploration Series.

Book 1: Choosing Chuckles

Book 2: Doc’s Orders

Book 3: Dominance And Dissent

Book 4: Passion Surge

Book 5: North Bound

Book 6: Testing Truth

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By Cynthia Sax on December 10, 2022

If you’ve read Over Torque, my cyborg romance short story gift to you this year, you might have noticed I included a copy of all the scenes I’ve shared in my newsletter over the year.

These have NOT be edited. My Awesome Editor hasn’t seen them. As they aren’t edited before they appear in my newsletters. (sheepish grin)

Previously, I offered the snippets on BookFunnel as separate files. That was, admittedly, a confusing hot mess and it was a LOT of extra work for my current Fantastic Formatter, the Dear Wonderful Hubby.

I had to do that because certain booksellers don’t like a lot of extra material in the back of books. They ban writers permanently for doing that.

But that bookseller now also doesn’t like free short stories. I had to delete the freebie short stories I had listed there.

So now I can put as much extra material as I like at the back of short stories.

Let me know if adding the newsletter snippets at the end of Over Torque works or doesn’t work for you! If it doesn’t work, I’ll figure something else out. If it DOES work, I’ll likely (eventually) revise the earlier short stories to include snippets from their respective years also.

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Over Torque

The safest place in the universe is in a cyborg’s arms.

Ceridwen has arranged transport for her and her cat on a freighter. They hope to find a new start and sanctuary on a distant planet.

That dream is blasted to bits when the Humanoid Alliance attacks the ship.

Torque, an E Model cyborg, is searching for wreckage to blow up. He and his friend locate an escape pod attached to the remnants of a freighter.

Inside that small craft are two lifeforms.

Both of these beings will change Torque’s lifespan forever.


Over Torque is a short, light, companion story set in the cyborg world and is meant to be read after Provoking Odium.

This Cyborg Romance features an explosion-loving cyborg warrior, a cautious human female, and her discerning cat.

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https://dl.bookfunnel.com/q74mwmx22v

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Throwback Thursday – Dominance And Dissent

By Cynthia Sax on December 8, 2022

As the weather in my corner of the universe grows colder (shivers), my reading tends to skew toward romances set on hot planets. If you’re the same way, Dominance And Dissent might be the cyborg romance for it.

The story is set on a hot, dry planet. The planet has bustling marketplaces and settlements.

Dissent finds his genetic match in one of those marketplaces. While he’s seeking to free a creature from his cage, he hears a cry for help and he must answer it.

That decision will change his lifespan forever.

Dominance And Dissent

To earn the love of his curvy human, this cyborg will have to set her free.
***
Dissent has one primary mission—to find his female and protect her.

He doesn’t know who she is, where she’s situated, or what she looks like. That doesn’t stop him from searching the universe for her. He’s a cyborg and he’s determined. He WILL track her down.

While the J Model warrior is exploring a settlement on a merchant planet, he hears a defiant scream. Dissent has finally located the one being he’s genetically compatible with. He rushes to his little human’s side, ready and willing to defend her, eager to claim his female…forever.

Greer has only one dream—to be free. She’s been a slave her entire lifespan, has been subjected to soul-crushing abuse and pride-shredding humiliation. When an opportunity to escape presents itself, she takes it. Steps away from independence, she’s apprehended.

As she looks death in the face, waiting for the final strike, a tall, handsome cyborg warrior saves her. He exudes power, makes her tremble with desire, is unlike any of the males she’s ever known…except in one heartbreaking way.

He wants to own her.

As Dissent and Greer battle for dominance, danger looms. An enemy from the past has returned. He’s heavily armed, he’s not alone, and his sole goal is to kill both of them.
***
Dominance And Dissent is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features an overprotective cyborg, a defiant slave, and a ravenous baby creature who is determined to eat his way through an entire settlement.

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By Cynthia Sax on December 6, 2022

Over Torque, this year’s free cyborg romance short story, is available!

This is my gift to you for being some of the most amazing reading buddies in the universe. (tackle hugs)

I hope it makes you smile. (grins)

Over Torque

The safest place in the universe is in a cyborg’s arms.

Ceridwen has arranged transport for her and her cat on a freighter. They hope to find a new start and sanctuary on a distant planet.

That dream is blasted to bits when the Humanoid Alliance attacks the ship.

Torque, an E Model cyborg, is searching for wreckage to blow up. He and his friend locate an escape pod attached to the remnants of a freighter.

Inside that small craft are two lifeforms.

Both of these beings will change Torque’s lifespan forever.


Over Torque is a short, light, companion story set in the cyborg world and is meant to be read after Provoking Odium.

This Cyborg Romance features an explosion-loving cyborg warrior, a cautious human female, and her discerning cat.

Download Now:

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/q74mwmx22v

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Throwback Thursday – Doc’s Orders

By Cynthia Sax on December 1, 2022

One of the interesting aspects of writing SciFi Romance is making predictions about the future. I do that by researching what scientists and other leaders are working on or worrying about today.

When I wrote Doc’s Orders, one of the things that was worrying scientists was the possibility of a worldwide pandemic. This was LONG before COVID-19 happened. Scientists were sounding the alarms, telling everyone who would listen that we were due for a serious pandemic.

The deadly spread of diseases is also a factor of many exploration campaigns here on Earth. Newcomers bring new diseases, diseases the local population weren’t exposed to.

That would also be an issue with space exploration. Stars, it is already a factor. Bacteria and other lifeforms have hitched rides on spacecraft and have spread to explored planets/moons.

Anyhoo… Doc’s Orders DOES feature a pandemic. This story is a cyborg romance, however, and has the expected happy romance ending. (smiles)

Doc’s Orders

She wants both sides of her cyborg—the medic AND the beast.


A fully functional cyborg is balanced. His machine half and his organic half work together to produce the perfect warrior.

Doc isn’t fully functional.

The G Model operates at the two extremes. When his machine is in complete control, he’s the logic-driven medic, saving lifespans. Once his organics take charge, he becomes the savage beast…and beings die.

Both sides of Doc want to be the first to claim his female.

Allinen is one of the few beings in her small settlement who wasn’t born with a fated mate. Determined to belong somewhere, she has crafted a plan to leave the planet.

That plan doesn’t involve a huge stormy-eyed male who alternates between cool seduction and out-of-control ravishment. Doc isn’t her fated mate. Allinen knows that. But his dual nature and forbidden embraces tempt her to forget forever and indulge in more immediate delights.

Neither side of Doc views their relationship as being temporary. Her conflicted cyborg is prepared to battle her family, her planet and death itself to keep her.

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Throwback Thursday – Choosing Chuckles

By Cynthia Sax on November 17, 2022

Chuckles is the most adorably grumpy warrior in the cyborg universe. He’s grouchy for a reason – he’s permanently injured and that causes him pain.

But that grouchiness hides the softest of hearts. And Chuckles has absolutely no defenses against Bettina, his bubbly chaos-causing human female.

I love these two together. (grins)

Choosing Chuckles

A Cynical Cyborg Meets A Bad, Bad Female.

Chuckles hates all humans. In the past, humans betrayed him. That treachery caused permanent damage to his muscular form, resulting in a lifespan of pain. 

When the primitive D Model cyborg answers a distress call sent by a pink-and-blue haired, sparkly human female, he knows it’s a trap. He still has to respond to her fake cry for help. She belongs to him, is the one being genetically fabricated for him. But he plans to be her captor, not her captive.

Bettina, aka Bait, works with a team of females, snaring sexual predators in space, seizing their ships and transporting them to primitive planets. As soon as she speaks with Chuckles, she knows he’s not like the others. He has honor, is a being worthy of respect, of caring. 

But she can’t let him go. She has to trap him. His dominance thrills her. His deep voice evokes desires she’d never experienced in the past. She’ll risk it all, breaking every rule for one wild encounter with the male she calls Sir. 

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Throwback Thursday – The Cyborg’s Secret Baby

By Cynthia Sax on November 3, 2022

The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a nod to the origins of the Secret Baby trope – when soldiers had one last sexy times before departing for war, leaving their partners’ with cute little remembrances of those moments and no reliable way to communicate with their soldiers. The soldiers would return home months, years later and meet the children they didn’t know they had.

In The Cyborg’s Secret Baby, Zebrina believes her soldier, her cyborg Stealth has died on the battlefield. She is struggling to raise their child on her own and is being pursued romantically by someone else.

That makes Stealth’s return from the dead EXTREMELY complicated. (grins)

The Cyborgs Secret Baby Cyborg Romance


The Cyborg’s Secret Baby

A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.

Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.

When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.

After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.

The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.

Buy Now:

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