Becky Black

Brilliant intelligence analyst, Ilyan, is certain humanity and Earth itself is in imminent danger. High Command refuses to believe it, forcing Ilyan to go on the run, desperate to spread the truth. If he can't make High Command believe in the threat, then he will take his message to the soldiers on the ground.Infantryman Jadeth is one of those soldiers. He doesn't know if it's accident or fate that has brought him to Ilyan, but he knows he has only...

When you live beside a cat café, it's inevitable the fur will start flying eventually. Derek "Dez" Walker, a police officer wounded in a shooting, feels adrift and isolated as he makes a slow recovery. Others call him a hero, but it's a title he doesn't think he deserves. When Dez intervenes in a burglary at the cat café near his apartment, he meets the owner, Francis "Fran" Green. Though he's a hero to Fran for his intervention in the burglary,...

Before Razz Jensen can do anything drastic to rescue Javi from prison on his home planet, General Queza arrives with a proposal from Arien -- to take all the Ixellan exiles home. As the ship full of refugees leaves, Javi and Razz are reunited, until Queza offers training to the refugees to become a defence force for their community and Javi joins up. He regrets that when Razz becomes an instructor and tells Javi they need to cool it during the training. Meanwhile,...

Military intelligence officer Lieutenant Barb Carolus is ordered to investigate Colonel Locke, a rogue officer suspected of selling military weapons on the black market. Colonel Locke is from Barb's home planet and she knows exposing his crimes will tarnish the reputation of those rare people like her who've escaped the poverty and gangs of their home world to become officers. But orders are orders and she always does her duty. For the mission she's...

Margot McCallan expected to sleep peacefully through the months' long journey to a new life on a distant colony planet. But she's rudely awakened and rescued from a hypersleep chamber full of fellow colonists who have turned into ghouls with an insane hunger for flesh. Chief of Operations Izzy Ramirez expected the usual uneventful trip ferrying sleeping colonists and their supplies. But when a saboteur repeatedly triggers a virus that cripples the...

Lieutenant Greg Matthews took a transfer to space station Saira to make a fresh start. But a rogue military intelligence officer has discovered the closeted Greg's secret and forces him to spy on Karl Webster, the owner of the last gay bar on Saira. The disapproving military authorities want Karl's bar closed, and he's feeling the heat. He thinks his new lover is an ally in his fight, but Greg is reporting on all of Karl's plans to save the bar. Despite...

The capture of stowaway Kit Miller brings some rare excitement to the life of Raine, security chief on a deep space cargo freighter. Kit's a fugitive, a shameless flirt and the sexiest man Raine's ever seen, but Raine's determined to resist him. Getting involved with Kit would be inappropriate and Raine prides himself on his rigid principles. To Kit, Raine is just another authority figure like the ones who've screwed him over before, so he can't...

Max Sagan's mouth is always getting him in trouble. His special talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person makes it hard to hold onto either a job or a boyfriend for long. When Max is fired yet again, his best friend Noah reluctantly gets Max an interview where he works. Max is grateful, but unsure if a party boy like him will fit in at a stuffy law firm. Then he meets Noah's gorgeous boss, lawyer Owen Hart, and becomes...

Rob Catteneo takes charge of his family's business, selling ice cream in a British seaside town, and finds their oldest competitor, Bianchi's, is now being run by the youngest son, Chez. Chez was once a schoolmate but never a friend, because of their old family rivalry. Rob's interested in both a business partnership with Bianchi's and a more personal relationship with Chez. But Chez is deep in the closet, terrified his very traditional family will...

Eighty years ago, hostile aliens scoured most of humanity from the surface of the Earth with a monstrous weapon that left the planet uninhabitable for humans. Friendly alien rescuers helped the survivors build a refuge on the moon and people from all over the world united in this new home they called Tranquillity City. Only a handful of the original survivors are still alive. Now the city is populated by their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren....