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Avra has accidentally stolen government secrets, so he flees to the sea and ends up asking his sorta ex, who is a pirate captain but is not at all happy to see him, for help. They make a plan to sell the info, but between a sexy new crew member, a nosy ambassador looking for the thief, and horny sea serpents, shenanigans...
![Book Review: The Mars House by Natasha Pulley [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Mars-House-by-Natasha-Pulley-255x255.jpg)
January is an Earth refugee on Mars, where Senator Gale is pushing to make Earthstrongers undergo a process that will acclimate them to Mars gravity but harm their bodies. When January ends up in a bad spot, he agrees to a marriage with Gale that will benefit them both. But there are mysteries surrounding Gale, and the senator is not at all what January...
Damiskos, disabled from his time in the military, is at a seaside villa when he meets and is drawn to the slave Varazda. But there's more going on among the guests than it first seems---espionage and intrigue---and definitely more to Varazda, which Damiskos uncovers as he helps him and grows closer to...
Thibault is a law student, but when a gorgeous divine envoy for the Muses asks him for help finding something that has been stolen from them, he knows it's the right thing to do. This quest creates unexpected difficulties in his life, but the chance to spend time with the envoy might make it all worth...
Sol is a trans vampire working as an archivist and living at his workplace to avoid the sun. When a donor shows up to drop off her dead wife's things, the two hit it off, and Sol's solitary, stagnant life starts...
Reed should be safe after everything that happened in the last book, but he keeps thinking he sees Phil Rice around town, and his paranoia and anxiety are getting worse. Meanwhile, Mazarin can't seem to fit in with humans or with the other sentient AI she meets. And both of them struggle with confusing feelings and navigating romantic...
It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...
In an alternate version of the Old West where people ride hippos instead of horses, Winslow Houndstooth and a team of outlaws have been hired by the government to remove the feral hippos from a certain waterway. Winslow has a plan for the hippos and for revenge against someone who wronged him, but he doesn't count on things going wrong... or falling for one of his fellow...
