Tentacles and Troubles by Aly Tatum [Review]

Tentacles and Troubles (Lunar Station Eros #2) by Aly Tatum
Format: ebook
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Date read: January 2, 2026

Lunar Station Eros
1. Tentacles and Truffles
2. Tentacles and Troubles - Kindle

Aly Tatum
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

When an Emperor demands his son choose between love and legacy, a café owner armed with coffee and conviction proves that the fiercest revolutions start at home.
Hailey Calloway never meant to fall in love with three extraordinary beings. She definitely never meant to become the center of an interstellar incident. But when Imperial forces arrive to "reclaim" Prince Kael'ith from what they call contamination, she discovers that protecting her pack requires more than passion—it requires paperwork, courage, and an unshakeable belief that chosen bonds matter more than bloodlines.

Between rescuing her kidnapped bot from black market dealers, facing down an Emperor in her own café, and navigating the beautiful complexity of a four-person relationship that includes tentacle collection protocols and cyborg anxiety, Hailey learns that building a family isn't about perfection. It's about showing up. Choosing each other. And sometimes, weaponizing hospitality until even Emperors back down.

Because when you're bonded to:

- A Cephaloid scientist who expresses love through meticulous documentation
- A cyborg learning that emotions aren't weaknesses
- A prince willing to trade a throne for truth

...surrender isn't an option. Not when home is worth fighting for.

Thoughts on Tentacles and Troubles: The foursome that managed to shed their inhibitions and reservations thanks to a very helpful bot and some aphrodisiac-laced chocolates now has to fight for this thing blossoming between them. They also need to figure out how to rescue Hailey's bot from unscrupulous dealers. There's might also be a little matter of an insurance investigator and the damage done to her cafe when the Imperial forces tried to forcibly take Prince Kael'ith back.

Let's just say that a four-person relationship is complicated on every level.

Fortunately, Hailey and her men are more than willing to face those complications head-on. Facing those complications, as it turns out, involves aggressive kindness and a thorough understanding of the rules and regulations of the station they live on. Also, making a good cup of coffee.

While all this is going on, the group is also developing clear channels of communication with one another, a willingness to embrace their quirks in all shapes and forms, and accepting that their sassy, meticulously organized helper bot is going to offer suggestions and schedules for all things involving their relationship. Because they're ALL a big messy family now and this family likes to optimize cuddling and other varied relationship markers to ensure all members are happy and healthy. *thumbs up*

Tentacles and Truffles by Aly Tatum [Review]

Tentacles and Truffles (Lunar Station Eros #1) by Aly Tatum
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 14, 2025

Lunar Station Eros
1. Tentacles and Truffles - Kindle
2. Tentacles and Troubles

Aly Tatum
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

When a chocolatier’s cosmic confections unleash an irresistible brew of tangled tentacles, glitchy cybernetics, and royal pheromones, love on Lunar Station Eros becomes anything but ordinary.

Hailey Calloway thought running Sweet Nebula—the coziest café on Lunar Station Eros—was wild enough. But one Valentine’s Day, a mischievous PA’s botched recipe accidentally turns her signature truffles into dangerously potent aphrodisiacs. Now, Hailey can’t stop blushing under the combined affections of three utterly different men:

• Xy’lan, the brilliant alien scholar whose tentacles betray his hidden feelings.
• Ronan Garret, a stoic bio-mechanical assassin struggling with emotions he’s never dared to embrace.
• Prince Kael’ith, a glamorous rogue royal whose pheromones mask a surprising vulnerability.

Locked inside her café until she finds a cure, Hailey realizes she’s not the only target of this chocolate-fueled fiasco—Xy’lan, Ronan, and Kael’ith have equal (and sometimes highly flammable) interest in each other, too. When the antidote finally materializes, they all face a choice: sacrifice these edgy, life-altering desires or let a Valentine’s accident become the sweetest discovery of their lives.

Thoughts on Tentacles and Truffles: A helpful bot's ingredient substitution has Hailey and the three alien men she's attracted to buzzing. Actually, it's more than just the fur of them. There are multiple individuals on the station looking for alone time with their chosen special someone as Hailey's Valentine truffles work their magic.

But Hailey? She has three wildly different men looking at her and each other like there's a whole lot they want to explore. So these four do what any group would do when dosed with an aphrodisiac. They enjoy it while it lasts.

Xy'lan, Ronan, and Kael'ith are adventurous, creative, and willing to explore this thing brewing between them. Hailey gets to not only enjoy them individually, but watch them enjoying each other, as well. Which she is VERY into. BUT...they're also a group trying to navigate a new dynamic and they're careful with one another as they learn what boundaries to push and lines to cross.

Some potent honey, more than a few longing looks, a cafe that will likely need to be sanitized DEEPLY before Hailey can reopen, and four individuals who are willing to throw caution to the wind and see where this attraction takes them. *thumbs up*

The Lone Cyborg by Honey Phillips [Review]

The Lone Cyborg (Cyborgs on Mars #6) by Honey Phillips
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: September 26, 2025

Cyborgs on Mars
0.5. High Plains Cyborg
1. The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg
2. A Fistful of Cyborg
3. A Few Cyborgs More
4. The Magnificent Cyborg
5. The Outlaw Cyborg
5.5. The Cyborg with No Name
5.6. Cyborg Rider
5.7. The Cyborg Way
6. The Lone Cyborg - Paperback | Kindle
7. High Noon Cyborg

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Dragons on Mars
1. Last Dragon on Mars

Honey Phillips
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Can a stubborn miner and a gruff cyborg ranger survive the dangers of Mars—and their growing desire?

Mattie is perfectly happy on her isolated mining claim, thank you very much. She and her cybernetic canary Sylvester are doing just fine—no matter what the big, grumpy cyborg responsible for her territory seems to think.

J-418 takes his job as a ranger very seriously. Frequent checks on the stubborn, annoying—and ridiculously adorable—woman living on her own are just part of his job. They certainly aren’t because he actually enjoys his encounters with the prickly little female.

When danger forces the two together, they make a series of startling discoveries, not the least of which is an unexpected passion. But life on Mars is about to change - for everyone!

Thoughts on The Lone Cyborg: We've been getting hints about the future (past?) on Mars and YESSSSS. I'm IN! But before that, our next cyborg ranger gets his chance at a happily ever after.

J-418/Jeb is drawn to Mattie, but he keeps his distance as much as he can. Which just means he only swings by her claim twice as much as the other homesteaders' claims in his territory. Mattie's prickly and independent and he likes how she makes him feel when they interact, as brief as those interactions are.

On Mattie's end, she likes J-418, but she also has some serious abandonment issues. So she gets a little snarly at him when he swings by and does her level best to make sure she doesn't have to rely on anyone, especially the hunky cyborg. Then he shows up with a warning about possible outlaws in the area and suddenly she kind of has to rely on someone other than herself and it's jarring. As it turns out, being around Jeb is not a hardship. AT ALL.

A little danger, an unexpected find in a lava tube, some forced proximity (gotta love those Martian storms!), a ranger who doesn't think love is in the cards for him, and a lady who has to learn to trust her honorable cyborg won't leave her in the lurch. No lie, I am EXCITED about the future on Mars with what happened here. *thumbs up*

The Cyborg Way by Honey Phillips [Review]

The Cyborg Way (Cyborgs on Mars #5.7) by Honey Phillips
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: August 18, 2025

Cyborgs on Mars
0.5. High Plains Cyborg
1. The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg
2. A Fistful of Cyborg
3. A Few Cyborgs More
4. The Magnificent Cyborg
5. The Outlaw Cyborg
5.5. The Cyborg with No Name
5.6. Cyborg Rider
5.7. The Cyborg Way - Kindle
6. The Lone Cyborg
7. High Noon Cyborg

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Dragons on Mars
1. Last Dragon on Mars

Honey Phillips
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

A lonely settler and a cynical cyborg make a discovery that could change everything they know about Mars - and each other.

After a year on Mars, Ellie is thrilled with how much progress she’s made on her homestead - although she can’t deny it gets lonely at times. Her only visitor is a big cyborg ranger who insists on keeping his distance.

When she finds an impossible little creature lurking in her lichen - a creature who shouldn’t exist - she should be terrified. Instead, Henry turns out to be a delightful companion, and she’s determined to keep him hidden from the ruthless corporation controlling Mars.

L-485 takes his responsibility as a ranger very seriously - especially when it comes to a certain pretty little settler. He knows she’d never be interested in a gruff, older cyborg, but that doesn’t stop him from watching over her.

When he realizes that Ellie is hiding a potentially dangerous secret his duty is clear - but how can he betray her trust? Can Henry bring two lonely people together as they try to solve the mystery of his existence?

Thoughts on The Cyborg Way: MAN, I like these stoic, resigned cyborgs meeting their special someone. L-485/Levi is drawn to Ellie, but can't believe that she'd want anything to do with him beyond his ranger duties. So he keeps his distance (sort of) and pines from afar.

As for Ellie, she looks forward to Levi's biweekly visits, but since he keeps turning down her invitations to stay awhile, she doesn't think it will go anywhere. Then she finds a critter that shouldn't exist and she's TERRIBLE at keeping secrets. Or at least Levi reads her well enough to know something's up. Suddenly the two are dealing with what to do about the little guy together and YES.

Spending time together isn't a hardship and their kisses are smokin' hot. As you might imagine, THINGS HAPPEN. And soon the two of them have gone to solitary individuals to a cozy couple with a sweet pet. Seriously, I REALLY like when these tough rangers find their special someone on the plains of Mars. *thumbs up*

Smart@ss Cyborg by Amanda Milo [Review]

Smart@ss Cyborg by Amanda Milo
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: April 3, 2025

Purchase Links: Paperback | Kindle

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The Cyborg Merman

Amanda Milo
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Old West? Check.

Aliens? Check.

Mermen…? Check.

If you’re looking for all that and a donkey sidekick, this is the book for you.

Meet William Frederick Cody, a recently liberated merman-turned-cyborg who sets off in the semi-arid (okay, desert) climate of Traxia seeking the trusty horse he’s ordered.

Instead, he’s saddled with a mischievous donkey.

The donkey unseats him at the first opportunity, forcing this merman to travel on foot through the desert under the burning alien sun.

They stumble upon Becky, a human woman who’s in the middle of having all her dreams shattered before her eyes.

William and Paco ride (...figuratively speaking) to her rescue, where William admires her very fine horse.

Once she’s safe, William makes to leave her homestead when Becky shocks him by making him a wild offer. If he protects her and her unborn child, she’ll cook his meals, clean the shanty he’ll own, and do his laundry.
She also alludes to some acts she will perform… but he’s not certain what she means. What he does know is that he’ll get to own Becky’s horse.

All he has to do is marry her.

Thoughts on Smart@ss Cyborg: Oh.My.Goodness. I have SUCH a soft spot for socially awkward aliens who try REALLY hard to make things work and who are just a little left of center in their attempts. I mean, William calling Becky's unborn baby a tadpole just hits me in the best way. And Becky's almost offended by it, but not really and I don't know why I love stuff like this so much BUT I DO.

So. William is a recent cyborg transplant to Traxia. Heck, he's a recent cyborg, too, since he used to have a tail and now has shiny new legs. He's adorably clueless with all his attempts to be a "typical" cowboy. And his cluelessness leads to him purchasing a mischievous donkey (who REALLY wants to show the lady horses what he can do for them) and ending up married to a pregnant, grieving widow. Honestly, he only marries her because he wants her beautiful horse, but soon he likes her for WAY more than her horse.

Of course, he has a difficult time expressing that he likes her and she doesn't see his attempts at wooing for what they are. Plus, she's still dealing with grief and maybe a little guilt over liking this big, awkward cyborg so soon after her husband died.

Yeah, Becky's got a few things to work through. But once William makes things clear, she can admit to herself (and to him) that he's a good male with a good heart and maybe she likes him more than she expected to.

More than a few messed up rules regarding women (seriously, so messed up), a bad man who wants to take things that aren't his, a little aggressive shows when two cyborg mermen occupy the same space (HA), a happy little tadpole, a gloriously awkward cyborg who gives everything his all, and a lady who has to deal with a little baggage before she can see what a good male she married. *thumbs up*

Claiming Cure by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Claiming Cure (Dauntless Cyborgs #3) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: Decmeber 17, 2024

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone
2. Drift Would
3. Claiming Cure - Kindle
4. Grid Locked
5. Her Choice

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

A proud cyborg medic meets his human match.
***
Cyra has tasks to complete before she dies.

There are patients to heal, a dangerous mission to undertake, and a world to save. She doesn’t have time to entertain uninvited guests.

Especially one coldhearted cyborg medic who thinks he’s better than her.

The male might be breathtakingly handsome. His sternly set lips might be extremely kissable. And his touch might draw out a passion she didn’t think she was capable of feeling.

But he’s also a distraction, one that might doom millions of innocent beings to a painful, horrible death.

Cure isn’t emotionless. He feels…greatly. Listening to that malfunction has caused other beings pain and suffering in the past.

He refuses to allow his desires to cloud his judgment now.

His resolve is tested when he’s forced to associate with the most provoking, alluring medic in the universe.

Cyra is his genetic match, the one being in the universe he is fated to protect, touch, claim. She’s clever and beautiful, and the need to hold her almost downs his systems.

But now is not the time to indulge his great wanting.

Cure has an assignment to complete.

If he fails to accomplish his goals, everyone he cares for, including his human female, will die.

Thoughts on Claiming Cure: We're back on the planet the Humanoid Alliance is building their planet-destroying weapon on and Cure is about to find his special someone. Which is fun because Cure VERY MUCH comes across as an emotionless machine, when the truth is he's anything but.

Yep, the big guy feels. A lot. He might be a little rusty when it comes to interacting with those who aren't cyborgs (and maybe a little rusty when he interacts with cyborgs, too), but he's a darn good medic and it hurts him when he can't help someone. So he locks that side of him down and comes across as coldhearted.

Then he meets Cyra. Her shining kindness opens Cure up to softening his bedside manner. And once he does that, his walls start crumbling. Soon the two are working together to cure the disease the Humanoid Alliance has caused on the planet and making BIG PLANS to stop them from completing their weapon.

A distant planet, a dangerous plan, an immediate attraction, a male who has to distance himself so he doesn't get torn apart by his (perceived) failures, and a lady who is willing to sacrifice herself for the greater good. Fortunately for her, she has a protective cyborg who's going to help her come up with a plan that doesn't involve dying. GOOD STUFF!

Drift Would by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Drift Would (Dauntless Cyborgs #2) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: August 9, 2024

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone
2. Drift Would - Kindle
3. Claiming Cure
4. Grid Locked
5. Her Choice

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

A cyborg and a spy fly into danger.
***
Drift is one of the best pilots in existence, and he has been assigned a perilous mission.

The G Model cyborg must fly to a distant planet, locate the sector-destroying superweapon the enemy is projected to be developing there, and obliterate that threat to the universe.

When Drift arrives at his destination and meets with an informant, he’s distracted by a mysterious human female seated in the shadows. She’s Drift’s genetic match, and she is the one being he’s destined to care for, claim, and protect.

She’s also a liar and a thief. And she might be working with the enemy.

Trusting her could kill him and everyone he cares about.

Liar. Thief. Seductress. Saboteur. Roshini has been called all of those things. And she has earned each label. She’s done some terrible things to safeguard the beings she loves.

A gray-eyed cyborg warrior with nimble hands and a shared need for speed won’t stop her high-risk activities.

She’ll sacrifice everything, including her lifespan, to complete her self-appointed top-secret assignment.

Thoughts on Drift Would: We're back with the cyborgs and Drift, the speed loving pilot of the Dauntless, is up. His match? A human woman hiding out on a distant planet with a passel of secrets and plans that could mean the end of her.

To say Drift isn't okay with her plan is an understatement. The big guy didn't end up on this isolated planet and find his genetic match only to lose her to the Humanoid Alliance. So he does what any cyborg would do and tries to figure out how to keep his other half safe while bringing a world of hurt to the people building a world-ending machine.

On Roshini's end, she had reached the point on acceptance. If the only way to save the people who have raised her and given her a home results in her death, she's not going to let that stop her. Then Drift rolls into her life and suddenly she has a whole lot more to live for than vengeance.

Two beings who love breaking records, a terrible weapon, a little danger, a whole planet of found family, a cyborg who would give up anything to see his other half safe, and a lady who is chock-full of determination and grit. GOOD TIMES!

Strike Zone by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Strike Zone (Dauntless Cyborgs #1) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: April 16, 2024

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone - Kindle
2. Drift Would
3. Claiming Cure
4. Grid Locked
5. Her Choice

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.
***
While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.

She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.


The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.

Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.

Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.

Desperately.

Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.

When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.

She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.

Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.

Thoughts on Strike Zone: As part of Intrepid's punishment for not following Power's orders, the Dauntless and crew are patrolling a section of their sector that sees little action (which, as we all know, is a pretty hefty punishment indeed for these cyborgs who like being in the middle of things). When a signal of unknown origin sets every cyborgs' danger sense pinging, Strike gets tapped to investigate. Determined, focused, and ready to do whatever needs to be done, Strike absolutely doesn't expect to find his genetic match along the way.

A little case of mistaken identity has Kesser requesting Strike's help for a sensitive situation. Seeing as how a cyborg will deny their match nothing, Strike steps up and helps her. As it turns out, the guiding hand of fate puts Strike and Kesser at the right place at the right time to stop a potentially disastrous plan from torpedoing the peace between two planets.

But, while Kesser and Strike are keeping things safe between the planets, the situation with the signal Strike was sent to investigate remains, well, a situation. Seeing as show a cyborg is dedicated to completing his mission AND he would have a hard time staying apart from his genetic match, this leaves Strike in a bit of a pickle.

Danger, sexy times, thwarted plots, more sexy times, a cyborg who is torn between duty and his special someone, and a lady who is used to being in the background (but finds she REALLY likes being the center of Strike's attention). Cyborgs! YES!

Cyborg Rider by Honey Phillips [Review]

Cyborg Rider (Cyborgs on Mars #5.6) by Honey Phillips
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 21, 2023

Cyborgs on Mars
0.5. High Plains Cyborg
1. The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg
2. A Fistful of Cyborg
3. A Few Cyborgs More
4. The Magnificent Cyborg
5. The Outlaw Cyborg
5.5. The Cyborg with No Name
5.6. Cyborg Rider - Paperback | Kindle
5.7. The Cyborg Way
6. The Lone Cyborg
7. High Noon Cyborg

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Dragons on Mars
1. Last Dragon on Mars

Honey Phillips
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Can a lonely cyborg protect a determined scientist from the dangers of Mars?

Dr. Sadie Tucker has spent her entire life in the pursuit of knowledge. That quest takes her to the wild Martian frontier, where her latest bioengineering project could revolutionize homesteading on the planet. She can’t afford any distractions - even though the big, silent cyborg ranger guarding her reminds her that she is a woman as well as a scientist.

When the military sent Z-384 to Mars, he put his troubled past - and his humanity - behind him. He knows that only cold, isolation, and work lie ahead. But the intriguing little scientist he’s assigned to protect suddenly has him longing for a different kind of future. When Sadie and Zeb are trapped in a mysterious underground chamber, any kind of future seems impossible. With some unexpected help from Sadie’s prototype, can the two find a way to escape? And if they do, can they find happiness together?

Thoughts on Cyborg Rider: MAN, I like spending time with these cyborgs and the human ladies who capture their hearts. I mean, we have a wild planet with plenty of dangers and a group of cyborg males who collectively believe they don't deserve anything good in life. Then they meet their special someone and suddenly they start to see that life is definitely worth living.

This time around we have Sadie and Zeb. Sadie has plenty of knowledge tucked in her head, but no practical experience when it comes to Mars. Enter Zeb. He might not want to babysit the good doctor on the way to her new home, but he does what he needs to do.

And somewhere along the way the big guy realizes Sadie's made a space for herself in his heart. Not literally.

A little danger, a mystery that might be better left unspoken of, a critter who helps in a big way, a grump of a cyborg who hides a big heart, and a lady who is determined to find her place on this world. *thumbs up*

Hacking Hazard by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Hacking Hazard (Cyborg Unity #5.5) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: free through author newsletter
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 3, 2023

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium
2. Grin and Bare Him
2.5. Over Torque
3. Raw Desires
4. Strive for Forever
5. Intrepid Encounter
5.5. Hacking Hazard

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

A prince of a cyborg finds his human princess. Hazard has been searching for his genetic match for solar cycles. When he hears a female call for help over the communication lines, he processes he has found her.

But the male she expects to meet is a prince, not a battle-battered cyborg warrior.

Emily loves the ancient fairy tales of her ancestors. And she has always hoped to meet her prince.

When she’s rescued by a cyborg with soulful eyes and gentle hands, she realizes her reality has the potential to be happier and sexier than any of her dreams.

Thoughts on Hacking Hazard: A short and sweet encounter between a cyborg and his special someone and YESSSS. Another cyborg has found his genetic match.

Like most of the other cyborgs, Hazard has been searching for his other half, but has yet to find her. Then he hears Emily's voice and KNOWS she's the one for him. On Emily's end, she's in a bad situation and doesn't know how she's going to get out of it. Having someone swoop into rescue her is a dream, but it gets even more interesting when her rescuer turns out to be everything she ever wanted in a male.

A little danger, a last minute rescue, a cyborg with a heart of gold, and a woman who adores everything about him. *thumbs up*

Intrepid Encounter by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Intrepid Encounter (Cyborg Unity #5) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: ppurchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 2, 2023

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium
2. Grin and Bare Him
2.5. Over Torque
3. Raw Desires
4. Strive for Forever
5. Intrepid Encounter - Kindle
5.5. Hacking Hazard

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Cyborg vs. Valkyrie
Blood will be spilled and hearts will be captured.

Intrepid and his crew on the Dauntless guard the border to the cyborg sector. The D Model cyborg captain has dedicated his lifespan to protecting their homeland. He’ll do anything to secure the space and keep his brethren safe.

That includes confronting a Valkyrie intent on vengeance.

The female warrior is beautiful, brave, strong…and Intrepid’s genetic match. She’s the one being he is fated to claim. Her voice causes his circuits to hum. Her touch produces a passion he struggles to control.

But if he has to stop her…permanently…to protect his kind, he will make that sacrifice.

Olrun has been tracking the whereabouts of a one-of-a-kind object. The stolen item is critical to the safety of her Valkyrie sisters, and she’ll do anything to retrieve it.

That includes waging war on a tall, broad-shouldered cyborg warrior sporting brilliant-blue eyes and grimly set lips.

The male might…just might…have battle skills matching her own. And that excites the immortal fighter. She craves his rough handling, his punishing embrace, his stern words.

But Olrun’s desire for the cyborg won’t distract her from achieving her goal. She will shield her fellow Valkyries from danger, even if that means ending Intrepid's lifespan in the process.

Thoughts on Intrepid Encounter: We're back with the cyborgs and captain of the Dauntless is up this time around. His special someone? A fierce warrior lady who doesn't quite fit in with her people. After all, she's formed attachments (her daughter) outside of her Valkyrie sisters and that's just not done. And yet...there she is.

So while Olrun might fight against her attraction to Intrepid because she already has one mark against her for loving her non-Valkyrie daughter, she can't resist the smitten cyborg. After all, he thinks she's the literal best and he loves that she can stand her ground against him.

On Intrepid's end, Olrun is everything he ever wanted in a match and then some. She's smart and fierce and she loves fighting. The only sticky point in them as a couple (at first) is that Intrepid had vowed to keep his fellow cyborgs safe from any threat and the Valkyrie is most definitely a threat.

A little fighting, a whole lot of sexy times, a mission that takes them into enemy territory (where they get to do a whole lot of damage), a cyborg who adores his violence loving female from the first, and a  Valkyrie who finds a family who accepts her. GOOD STUFF.

V'Alen by A.G. Wilde [Review]

V'Alen (The Restitution #2) by A.G. Wilde
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: May 29, 2023

The Restitution
1. Ajos
2. V'Alen - Paperback | Kindle

A.G. Wilde
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

" I should have warned you of how illogical it is to fall in love with a Kyron."

An emissary to the Restitution, V’Alen does not interfere in the war between the humans and High Tasqals.

But when the Tasqal’s minions attack the base and the voice of one female reaches his auditory sensors, he answers her call for assistance.

[Scan: Female. Designated “Alaina”.]

A human female who swears him to secrecy the moment he rescues her.

Alaina is completely illogical. She is the definition of a faulty being…but when she proposes a contract he cannot refuse, V’Alen takes the bait.

The deal? A glimpse of humanity in exchange for his silence.

[Scan. Odds 95/5]

There is a 95% chance nothing will occur that will change his existence.

…But for the universe, 5% is more than enough.

Thoughts on V'Alen: We're back with the Restitution and the more machine than man Kyron emissary, V'Alen. He has rigid rules to live by (for reasons!) and he absolutely doesn't expect any human to captivate him the way Alaina does.

The downside? Alaina is dealing with more than just being abducted. She's dying and wants her time to be worth something to the people she's unexpectedly found herself with. Which means she's hiding her illness and doing everything she can to help turn the tide against the Tasqals. Still, she's one woman against a terrible enemy, but the lady DOES NOT give up easily. Or ever, really.

Which intrigues V'Alen. She's faulty, weak, and dying by inches, but she just keeps on pushing forward. When the two of them head off on a mission to keep a powerful relic safe, they start to learn more and more about one another. And (yeah, you guessed it) THINGS HAPPEN.

THINGS. V'Alen has skills no regular man has and Alaina isn't complaining IN THE LEAST.

A whole lot of danger, a powerful being who cages himself with rules to protect those around him, a woman who wants to make a difference, and several steamy encounters. *thumbs up*

Strive for Forever by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Strive For Forever (Cyborg Unity #4) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: August 10, 2023

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium
2. Grin and Bare Him
2.5. Over Torque
3. Raw Desires
4. Strive for Forever - Kindle
5. Intrepid Encounter
5.5. Hacking Hazard

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

This cyborg seeks to vanquish an ancient entity and save his curvy human female.

Euryale made a terrible mistake. She opened a container she shouldn’t have touched and released one of the oldest lifeforms in existence. That all-powerful entity is now utilizing her as its host and is slowly draining her energy.

Soon, she’ll die.

Euryale has accepted this fate and is determined to use her remaining moments in the universe to save as many lives as she can.

Her plans do NOT include a smoldering hot, poetry-wielding cyborg willing to decimate entire planets to save her.

While under the control of the Humanoid Alliance, Strive, a K Model cyborg, disobeyed direct orders and refused to kill on their behalf. If he hadn’t escaped their cruel clutches, his defiance would have led to his death.

The male knowingly risked that fate to save the lifespans of complete strangers.

There is nothing he wouldn’t do to protect Euryale. The curvy human female is his genetic match, the one being he is destined to defend.

And she is in danger.

Strive would break every vow, cross every boundary, risk absolutely everything to keep her from harm.

Including battle a deity no one has ever defeated.

Thoughts on Strive for Forever: We're back with the cyborgs and their genetic matches and Strive's lady is tangled up with something dangerous and kind of immortal. Which isn't terrible because the cyborgs are ridiculously long-lived already (provided they don't get themselves killed or otherwise fatally damaged during a mission) and Adam (the deity Euryale is hosting) is strong enough to keep anyone safe.

Well, wait. Adam's extreme energy is actually killing Euryale before Strive gets to her. It takes some wooing and a liberal application of Strive's nanocybotics (if you know what I mean) before Euryale has a future to look forward to. That said, she and Strive (and Adam) are stuck planetside while another escaped deity causes a little havoc in the outside world. You know, this sounds complicated. It's really not. There are powerful artifacts, powerful deities, and a cyborg who isn't about to let his one and only die if he has anything to say about it.

A little artistic creativity, some sweet talking, a deity who is not at all amused by how often Euryale and Strive need to get physical (go to your safe place, Adam! HAHAHA), and a little power flex by said deity (seriously, Adam's strikes fear into the hearts of the Humanoid Alliance) and BOOM another cyborg finds his happily every after with the lady of his dreams. GOOD STUFF!

Over Torque by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Over Torque (Cyborg Unity #2.5) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: provided through the author's newsletter
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 5, 2022

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium
2. Grin and Bare Him
2.5. Over Torque
3. Raw Desires
4. Strive for Forever
5. Intrepid Encounter
5.5. Hacking Hazard

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

The safest place in the universe is in a cyborg’s arms.

Ceridwen has arranged transport for her and her cat on a freighter. They hope to find a new start and sanctuary on a distant planet.

That dream is blasted to bits when the Humanoid Alliance attacks the ship.

Torque, an E Model cyborg, is searching for wreckage to blow up. He and his friend locate an escape pod attached to the remnants of a freighter.

Inside that small craft are two lifeforms.

Both of these beings will change Torque’s lifespan forever.

Thoughts on Over Torque: A quick, sweet, pet-filled addition to the Cyborg world. It was steamy, too. You know, once Torque and Ceridwen reached the boom-chicka-wow-wow portion of their getting-to-know-you.

But before they get to that point, there was a little mishap with Ceridwen's escape pod. Wait. Maybe I should say there was a little mishap with the ship she and her cat were traveling on and they happened to have the good fortune to (a) be in the escape pod at the time and (b) end up in Cyborg controlled space.

It was EXTRA good fortune that Torque was the one that found her and that he was able to show her infinite patience as they got to know one another. Then THINGS HAPPENED, if you know what I mean. *thumbs up*

Theta by Elsa Jade [Review]

Theta (Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County #4) by Elsa Jade
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 5, 2022

Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County
1. Mach One
2. Delta V
3. Big Bang
4. Theta - Kindle

Related Series:
(find all books in the series on the 1st book review)
Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides
1. Alpha Star

The Great Space Race
1. Freefall: Team Prism

Black Hole Brides
1. The Intergalactic Duke's Inconvenient Engagement

Mermaids of Montana
1. Maelstrom

Beast Battalion
1. Cross

Elsa Jade
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

The cyborg cowboys of Carbon County thought they’d won the day…

The Theta shroud designation was always meant to be an outsider—a spy and saboteur lurking on the fringes of the elite cyborg soldiers. So even as he built a personality out of the dust of Diamond Valley, Montana, Troy Lehigh stayed apart from his brothers while they lived and loved. A Theta could never hope for such a bond.

His only desire, from the first moment he stole his consciousness from the soulless programming that controlled him, was to destroy the consortium that doomed him to solitude. He would’ve done it too, except his brothers chose love over war and trapped him in their midst.

But then, a hundred and fifty years ago, he met a sassy soiled dove in a Montana saloon…

Nell Dearly had wandered too far from home and was struggling to survive. But the long-lost farm girl has no idea just how far out she’ll go…

The cyborg cowboys of Carbon County have fought for each other, for love, and for Earth itself. But the shroud consortium they escaped never stopped seeking them. Now every star they see from Big Sky Country is in danger, and only a lonely Theta and the saloon girl he kissed once upon a time might save us.

Thoughts on Theta: Hoo-boy. The Theta of the group has returned to the proverbial fold and IT IS NOT PRETTY. Mostly because Troy, you know, attempted to enslave his brothers to his will as part of his master plan to break the consortium's hold on all the shrouds. Probably surprising no one, that didn't exactly endear him to the rest of the cyborgs or their mates and now he's forced to be practically human as punishment (and to reflect on why what he did was so wrong).

As it turns out, that isn't even the worst of Troy's problems. A blast from his past (who he unwittingly helped shape into the woman she is now) has shown up and she's determined to retrieve the lost shroud and return him to his rightful owner.

Look, it's messy and a little complicated when otherwise good people are willing to do not-so-good things in an attempt to save themselves. It also has a tendency to mess with a person's head if they have any sort of decency. Which means both Troy and Nell are tangled up in one another and the deeper they fall, the more they become aware of how what they're doing might be hurting the very people they're coming to care for.

Yeah, it's messy. It's also puts them on the path to (sort of) do what Troy originally wanted to do. Which puts them in even more danger because the consortium isn't exactly an easy-to-defeat enemy.

A whole lot of danger, two people realizing what it means to love, a twisted (and powerful) enemy, and plenty of answers. *thumbs up*

Big Bang by Elsa Jade [Review]

Big Bang (Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County #3) by Elsa Jade
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 3, 2022

Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County
1. Mach One
2. Delta V
3. Big Bang - Kindle
4. Theta

Related Series:
(find all books in the series on the 1st book review)
Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides
1. Alpha Star

The Great Space Race
1. Freefall: Team Prism

Black Hole Brides
1. The Intergalactic Duke's Inconvenient Engagement

Mermaids of Montana
1. Maelstrom

Beast Battalion
1. Cross

Elsa Jade
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

It’s Christmas in Carbon County, and not a creature is stirring, not even a cyborg…

He was never meant to be awakened. In the matrix of genetically and cybernetically enhanced contract killers, he was the Omega -- brought out only the last resort, the final answer, the end times. But crash-landing on the planet Dirt made Cosmo just another cowboy, albeit one with a time bomb in his massive body forever set to 00:00:00:01.

Vic Ray thought she was so smart. As a reformed black-hat hacker, she cracked every code ever put in front of her. Except the one that explains people. But then she found out about aliens. Turns out, though, Cosmo Halley is worse than any people. At least she doesn’t have to be nice to a killer robot to get what she wants: Off this world.

But when an old enemy and a new one join forces to expose the CWBOIs on Earth, Cosmo and Vic will have to figure out what it means to love before everything they know is lost forever. Can the Spirit of Christmas -- peace, goodwill, and spiked hot cocoa -- teach a cyborg and a misanthrope to believe in a future together?

Thoughts on Big Bang: The ticking time bomb of the Cyborg matrix is up and I like the guy. I mean, sure, he does some questionable things at times (like creating a baby to try to bribe Lindy away from Delta, which was NOT cool, yet it somehow worked out in the end), but he's just a lost Cyborg looking for acceptance and when you frame it with those circumstances it makes him a little cuddly.

Well, not cuddly, exactly. But kind of? Like, the guy just wants to befriend the nearly feral barn cats and keep his family together. He just doesn't quite have the social skills to do it with style. So he sort of does what comes to mind and sometimes it's the wrong thing, but at least he's trying.

That said, Vic is almost as much of a social misfit as he is. Maybe not in as visible a way (after all, she can pass for human), but between her hyper focus when she hacks and her pretty awful childhood, she's caught in some of the same loops Cosmo is in. Just, you know, the more human version of it.

Anywho. A lost brother, a not so great confrontation, a hacker who sees things a little differently, and some really out of this world sexy times. Because if you can't accidentally seduce your special lady friend with nanites, who can accidentally seduce?

Delta V by Elsa Jade [Review]

Delta V (Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County #2) by Elsa Jade
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 2, 2022

Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County
1. Mach One
2. Delta V - Kindle
3. Big Bang
4. Theta

Related Series:
(find all books in the series on the 1st book review)
Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides
1. Alpha Star

The Great Space Race
1. Freefall: Team Prism

Black Hole Brides
1. The Intergalactic Duke's Inconvenient Engagement

Mermaids of Montana
1. Maelstrom

Beast Battalion
1. Cross

Elsa Jade
| Website | Twitter | Facebook | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

It’s autumn in Big Sky Country, and crash-landed aliens are falling in love!

Deltas were always the most expendable among the CWBOIs (Custom War Bionic/Organic Impersons), and Delta V was fifth of nothing. But since the crash that left this transgalactically prohibited private army of cyborg alien warriors marooned on Earth, Delta has found some small pleasures -- soft dogs, sweet donuts, seducing the neighboring rancher. Wait, what?

For the first time in her fifty years, Big Sky Country is feeling small and lonely to Montana rancher Lindy Minervudottir. With the five-year anniversary of her wife’s death looming, she’s not sure if the future matters. But then a futuristic fighter flies into her life.

Earth is a small, blue marble in the vastness of space, and two needy hearts are even smaller than quarks at that scale. But with a long-gone enemy closing in, if quantum entanglement and the irresistible force of love can’t bind them together, the world itself hangs in the balance.

On the outskirts of the Big Sky Intergalactic Dating Agency, the Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County are rounding up earthly pleasures for their forever mates.

Thoughts on Delta V: It's Delta's turn to figure out what it means to be a cyborg killing machine without a mission who's been stranded on earth. And by "figure out what it means", I mean he's going to attempt to woo Lindy. Sure, the guy has zero experience with wooing and a distressingly low sense of self (being the lone Delta of a matrix that was all but wiped out when their ship crashed hasn't done the guy any favors), but he does have determination on his side.

As for Lindy, she considers herself older than Delta and his brothers (although they technically have a good 100 years on her) and she's heartworn after the death of her wife years early. She's definitely not looking to fall in love again, but Delta and his secrets draw her in and have her feeling things she didn't expect to feel.

Throw in a flying alien creature, the loner 3rd Halley brother, a group of galactic scavengers, a bout (or two) of sheet-tangling fun, and a little package that offers a whole lot of hope for these two and you have a lot going on under the Montana sky. *thumbs up*

Raw Desires by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Raw Desires (Cyborg Unity #3) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: March 15, 2023

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium
2. Grin and Bare Him
2.5. Over Torque
3. Raw Desires - Kindle
4. Strive for Forever
5. Intrepid Encounter
5.5. Hacking Hazard

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
***
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors to have located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.

Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough and tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.

Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.

All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.

Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.

The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment and she won’t fail at her assigned task.

The cyborg will die.

Thoughts on Raw Desires: Raw is the next cyborg to find his other half and she's NOT thrilled to be the genetic match to a cyborg. To be fair, Taytu is kind of a ball of boiling rage about EVERYTHING at first and her hatred for cyborgs is rooted in something she only has partial information on. Once she learns about what the cyborgs went through and why they had to do the things they did, she comes to understand who she should be hating on instead.

But until the understanding kicks in, Taytu is both enraged and turned on by her big cyborg. Not that she admits he's hers. Not at that point, at least. It takes some breaking in of the sleeping platform and a long talk or two before she starts to head down the "yeah, this cyborg is MY cyborg" road.

On Raw's end, he's elated to have found his match, but Taytu doesn't make it easy for him. Not that he minds. He likes her fierceness (when she trying to blow him up) and her gentleness (once she comes to terms with what happened to the people of her planet).

A few explosions, a little infiltrating, a very bad man who needs to be taken care of, and a whole lot of steamy time between the cyborg and his special lady. GOOD TIMES.

Grin and Bare Him by Cynthia Sax [Review]

Grin and Bare Him (Cyborg Unity #2) by Cynthia Sax
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: December 2, 2022

Cyborg Unity
1. Provoking Odium
2. Grin and Bare Him - Kindle
2.5. Over Torque
3. Raw Desires
4. Strive for Forever
5. Intrepid Encounter
5.5. Hacking Hazard

Related Series:
(Find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Cyborg Sizzle
1. Releasing Rage

Cyborg Space Exploration
1. Choosing Chuckles

Dauntless Cyborgs
1. Strike Zone

Rebel Cyborgs
1. Containing Malice

Cynthia Sax
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Cyborgs are designed to fight. That is their primary purpose and 98.2356 percent of the manufactured warriors enjoy battle. Tremendously.

Grin, a K model, is one of the rare exceptions. When he escaped his cruel creators, he set down his sword and allocated his processors to less violent pursuits. He projects he’s left his war-waging planet rotations behind him forever.

Then he meets his beautiful, beguiling female, the one being he’s destined to protect, to claim, to love for all eternity, and his plans for peace are completely decimated.

Mohini needs a ship.

She has a dangerous mission to complete and the first step in that assignment is arranging transport to an enemy-controlled planet. The vessel she has set her sights on is guarded by the sexiest cyborg she’s ever seen.

To gain access to his ship, Mohini is prepared to kiss, caress, seduce the muscular male. The mission is her focus. The pleasure she experiences will merely be a bonus.

A female has to do what a female has to do to save the universe.

Thoughts on Grin and Bare Him: We're back with the cyborgs as they fight to make the universe as safe as possible for themselves and the humanoids who complete them (and their offspring and their allies and anybody else willing to stand up against the people who work to wipe them out).

This time around, we have Grin and Mohini. Grin might not be the warrior some of his brothers are, but he's still dedicated to keeping his chosen one safe from anyone and anything that might harm her. As for Mohini, she's one of the last of her kind (and the last of her people's Guardians) and she has a duty to protect her people and everyone else from a potential weapon that has fallen into the Humanoid Alliance's hands. The only upside, the HA doesn't know what they have and Mohini plans on liberating it from them before they figure it out.

The downside? Mohini desperately needs a ship in order to start/complete this mission. Fortunately for her, Grin has access to plenty of ships. She just has to convince him to help her (or steal a ship from him, which, since he's a cyborg, isn't likely). As it turns out, it's isn't hard to convince Grin to help her at all. Considering she's his genetic match, he'll do pretty much anything for her. Provided it doesn't harm her in some way.

A planet full of danger, a smitten cyborg, a dedicated woman, a potentially world-ending weapon, a whole lot of sweaty times between the sheets, and a power (or two) that packs a lot of oomph. GOOD STUFF.