Love follows no rules. Like sun in winter and rain in summer, love can blossom in the most unexpected places. This richly diverse collection of stories proves that love is as universal and as varied as the seasons. THE STORIES: Tourist Season - Deven Balsam Machete Betty and the Office Sharks - Neptune Flowers Once Around Seven - Ofelia Gränd Winter Blossoms - Paul Iasevoli Year of the Guilty Soul - A.M. Leibowitz The Great Village Bun Fight - Debbie McGowan A Springful of Winters - Dawn Sister Out of Season - Bob Stone Seashell Voices - Alexis Woods Courting Light - A. Zukowski
One curvy dancer + an alpha alien prince = a fiery love story Alien Warrior Brides is a series of standalone stories with a connected universe. Each book can be read separately. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Expect lots of steam. Fleeing from her father's troupe before she's initiated into the seedier side of his business now that she's come of age, Nina makes a run for a tourist ship under an assumed name to join their traveling, dance troupe. When an emergency landing on a new planet has her curious about the gorgeous, iridescent planet that's the home world to the fiercest warriors in the quadrant, she finds herself at the center of native attention during an obligatory performance, in which she's the only one left on the stage. After a star shower knocks out ship systems, she finds herself snatched during the blackout. Slung over the back of a smolderingly, attractive alien warrior, she resists with all her might to no avail. Having run from being cast as a possession in her father's troupe, the last thing she wants is to be claimed as yet another man's possession - with no say in the matter. But how can she realistically fight for her freedom, when she's unable to deny the incredible attraction between she and the warrior who has his sights set on her as his true mate?
Money or love? Alien Warrior Brides is a series of standalone stories with a connected universe. Each book can be read separately. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Expect lots of steam. DONNCHADH I only had one mission: steal Princess Celeste from her kingdom and bring her to be married to a warlord. I didn’t mean to fall in love. But the more time I spent with her, the more I knew that I’d never be able to leave her in the hands of a cruel man. I couldn’t let her go. My job and family were at stake. My brother left the planet and my sister and I were paying for his mistakes, a huge debt that was nearly impossible to pay. If I delivered Princess Celeste to the warlord, the slate would be wiped clean. But I don’t think I can, not when my heart says that she’s the one for me.
When a bomb goes off before one of Kaley’s performances, she’s shaken. She’s wary of booking private shows, especially off-ship. After the ship slashes her income to a fraction of what it was before, she’s faced with an offer that she can’t refuse. She finally agrees when she thinks about how much the money will mean for her. Her first moments on her new temporary employer’s expensive dragon spaceship are lovely. She doesn’t anticipate the sinister undercurrent of the guardian priest’s true reasons for bringing her aboard the ship. She’s surprised when the ship steals her away right as her contract is supposed to end. Faced with a mesmerizingly handsome prince-godling, Prince Jesaja, who has been kept completely innocent and isolated, she struggles with her attraction to him and her own abduction. Could he be involved?
An alien champion meets a nerdy and sweet girl, but they have to stop his father from stealing her home. Alien Warrior Brides is a series of standalone stories with a connected universe. Each book can be read separately. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Expect lots of steam. Zhanshi is a sector local legend with a short social attention span and a growing boredom with brainless, vapid women (who used to be fun). He's done with being a playboy. He has been coming into his own for some time now with no credit from his regularly condescending father. Being repeatedly shut down when he attempts to join the discussion table with his father's contemporaries, he is slowly realizing that his father does not plan to allow him any real power in the kingdom. Annaisha is a keen, selective, and vastly powerful woman. Usually quite able to run her planetoid retreat without a hitch, she has been noticing her droids coming down with an infection that matches very few documented droid sicknesses on the books. It could ruin her business entirely, but more importantly all of the people she regularly helps with her retreat space would be lacking the high quality of therapeutic attention she has been providing since she took over the regular running of the planetoid for her uncle. Zhanshi's kingdom may be able to "help," for a "price." She soon learns that his father, the king, intends for them to marry for his own nefarious reasons.
Historical account of the activities of Phillips Petroleum Company during World War II, and the various means by which Phillips fought World War II on the American home front including: research and development of petroleum technology, corporate conservation, shifts in labor policies, and the politics and diplomacy of oil as it related to company and national interests during World War II. How important was oil? After the war, Commander-in-Chief of the American Pacific Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz stated, ""Oil and oil products constituted more than twice the combined tonnage of all other supplies shipped overseas, including men, weapons, ammunition, and food."" Uncovering the wartime activities of Phillips 66 provides a fascinating account of the depths to which the American oil industry dove to ensure victory over the Axis powers.
A temple healer + a space marine = sizzling romance Alien Warrior Brides is a series of standalone stories with a connected universe. Each book can be read separately. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Expect lots of steam. Illary has only known a life of seclusion, her gifts held hostage and forced from her hands. She's enormously powerful, but the temple coordinators have kept her tightly controlled. When she realizes Father Alois has wicked plans for her, she becomes desperate for an escape from the temple – so much that she is considering joining the rebel Pachakutek's stronghold alongside her younger sister Suyana. Xun is a space marine who has been sent to extract Illary from the temple. When their ship is attacked by the Alhmanics, they are split from Xun's regiment and Illary's sister. Xun and Illary must rely on each other in order to make their way to Intara to meet Kaley, Illary's older sister. But when space pirates attack, will they die inside of a remote space station or be able to complete their journey?
In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a critical time in the island's history. The U.S. military occupation between 1941 and 1947 came at the same time that Trinidadian nationalist politics sought to project an image of a distinct, independent, and particularly un-British cultural landscape. The American intervention, Neptune shows, contributed to a tempestuous scene as Trinidadians deliberately engaged Yankee personnel, paychecks, and practices flooding the island. He explores the military-based economy, relationships between U.S. servicemen and Trinidadian women, and the influence of American culture on local music (especially calypso), fashion, labor practices, and everyday racial politics. Tracing the debates about change among ordinary and privileged Trinidadians, he argues that it was the poor, the women, and the youth who found the most utility in and moved most avidly to make something new out of the American presence. Neptune also places this history of Trinidad's modern times into a wider Caribbean and Latin American perspective, highlighting how Caribbean peoples sometimes wield "America" and "American ways" as part of their localized struggles.
Stolen from Earth, can Jennifer Samson survive on a new planet? Alien Warrior Brides is a series of standalone stories with a connected universe. Each book can be read separately. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Expect lots of steam. Jennifer Samson is young professional, working two jobs in order to afford rent, food, and student loan payments. She has no family, few friends, and zero romantic prospects. Quy Vuong is seven feet tall, with skin the color of honey. He is a warrior, with rippling muscles and ink black hair. The Yuenanren are a race who have have few females among them. The intergalactic federation, through Kandalph Space Marines, Inc., has been bringing humans from Earth as potential mates to keep the Yuenanren from dying out entirely. Jennifer Samson is one of them.
Love follows no rules. Like sun in winter and rain in summer, love can blossom in the most unexpected places. This richly diverse collection of stories proves that love is as universal and as varied as the seasons. THE STORIES: Tourist Season - Deven Balsam Machete Betty and the Office Sharks - Neptune Flowers Once Around Seven - Ofelia Gränd Winter Blossoms - Paul Iasevoli Year of the Guilty Soul - A.M. Leibowitz The Great Village Bun Fight - Debbie McGowan A Springful of Winters - Dawn Sister Out of Season - Bob Stone Seashell Voices - Alexis Woods Courting Light - A. Zukowski
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