INTERPLANETARY SLAVE: Arcada of Ecryon In the star system Ecryon, women are kept as slaves as a way of life. Terenth, heir to the Ecryon throne, punishes his own slave, Arcada, by sending her to distant planets to fight for her life whenever she displeases him. Arcada is forced to travel to Earth where she finds herself bound to serve the whims of a demanding prince who insists she take on a dangerous mission. But when it is decreed that Terenth must marry another before Arcada returns, Terenth, realizing his profound love for his slave, travels to Earth to try to convince her to marry him first. To stay together, Arcada must survive her task and Terenth must do more than exert his ownership over her, he must give her his heart. INTERPLANETARY SLAVE: Arcada of Balinth Terenth, heir to the Ecryon realm, attends an auction with his childhood friend, Jaxx, to acquire his very first slave without his father’s help. This is a short (1900 word) introduction of how Terenth and Arcada first met and the circumstances of the very beginning of her ownership. AWAKENINGS Lysander, an imprisoned vampire king, begins appearing in Abby Fenton’s dreams from his distant exile, disrupting her happy marriage with forgotten images of their dark and brutal passion. As Abby and her stockbroker husband, Nick, struggle to come to terms with Lysander’s disturbing influence over Abby, Nick is forced to reveal chilling secrets of his own that he has kept hidden from his wife for years. Abby must not only cope with these new revelations but resist the temptations of her former vampire lover.
