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Jamie:
I’m not crazy.

Despite watching my mother get committed to a mental health hospital, I’ve never struggled with “seeing things” like she did. So when I lose my memory after a military debriefing, I struggle through the painful headaches and brain fog for as long as I can. I hate doctor’s offices, but there’s no way I can work like this.

When I finally break down and head into medical on base, I’m waylaid by a woman who sounds so familiar—even though I don’t recognize her. She says she knows me because we met during the last few days.

Of course, those are the days I don’t remember, but she insists they did the same thing to her. And she thinks she can help me get my memories back.

Honestly, I’m willing to try just about anything—except drugs.

But when she whisks me away to another world—introducing me to aliens—it’s hard not to feel like I’ve really lost my mind!

Purlogh:
When I’m notified my only living blood relation is missing, I pull together some old friends to help me locate him on Earth. What I didn’t expect to find is his mate.

We haven’t had Sinth mates since before my living memory. But there she was. She’s bloodied and bruised, with a chain still bound around her neck. The small Earth female was in our family’s dimension after being held by our most reviled adversary.

The Taxin.

Thankfully, when Zoey recovers, she’s able to lead me and my friends straight to my progeny. And right to my own mate in a neighboring cell…

She’s traumatized and crying, and all I can think about is revenge. With the blood rage pounding through my veins, I watch as she’s returned to her home. And maybe it’s just as well…

Because the Taxin have developed a way to cage us, trapping our physical form in one dimension. We must stop them and destroy every last piece of the technology they’ve developed.

There will be time to find my mate again…

But I don’t expect her to arrive at the Guardian base and be pivotal to our goal. After all, who would have thought my timid mate would have the skills to pierce the veil of secrecy the Taxin cloak themselves in?

Am I a fool to endanger her by allowing her to help?

Shayla:
Aliens are real.
I never believed all those “woo-woo conspiracy theorists.” But it’s hard to argue with your own eyes.

With an infectious disease spreading across the planet, my military unit received updated inoculations before our deployment. That’s when the veil is lifted from my eyes.

Suddenly, I’m thrown into a conflict between warring aliens!

The problem is, I’m going to have to pick a side. After three years in the service, am I ready to dig into the facts and discover where our government’s alliance falls?

Fin:
When Purlogh told me he needed help, I didn’t hesitate to join him on Earth. To be honest, I didn’t have high hopes of being able to stop the Wen virus sweeping across the planet. But as soon as I arrive, we discover the Taxin are here, and they’ve developed a technology to halt and expose our dimension phasing. They’ve accomplished what no one has before.

Caging a Sinth.

While we race to save Purlogh’s progeny, we stumble across not only Sinth, but humans being held. And a miracle happens when I’m drawn to an Earth female—stunned with the realization she’s mine…

Or so I thought.

When she introduces me to an Earth male she cares for, my world shatters.

How can she already be mated?

Could I be mistaken?
I’m left devastated… unsure of how to handle this unwelcome realization. But I’m still more than determined to discover if she’s my fated mate.

Alexis:
I’m giving

It’s a tough pill to swallow because I’m only three years into University. But I’ve lost my parents in the last couple of weeks. It’s only a matter of time before I get sick and turn into one of the stalking infected or I get caught and abused by looters.

I’m tired of all the death, and living in fear is exhausting. Now men from the work camps up north are heading my way. I can hear them getting closer, and my back’s against the wall—or the cliff–to be more accurate.

I’d rather be dead than this lonely and terrified.

Stane:
The Wen virus has exploded into view again. This time on an underdeveloped planet called Earth in the Ashen Zone. When my old friend Purlogh contacted me with the news, I was interested in investigating the Fakel involvement with him.

They must be stopped.
But when Purlogh ends his communication saying a Sinth Guardian found his fated mate among the human females… of course, I take off immediately. Only a mate can stop the viscos—the blood rage—that keeps us alienated in our personal dimension.

When I enter Earth’s atmosphere, I’m drawn down to the surface, weaving through the mostly green covered mountains. At my age, I’m just beginning to struggle to control the viscos, heating my blood to an uncomfortable level. Despite that, I phase to the surface when I notice a female teetering on the edge of a cliff.

Then she looks at me.
Is that possible? I haven’t phased completely into her dimension yet.
Before I can confirm—she’s unconscious. Attacked by predatory males who take over her residence.

I’m left waiting… hoping she’s the mate I was afraid of ever dreaming would materialize.