Archaeologist Miralla has a new partner: a stunningly beautiful elf woman who she just can't stand. Sent on a mission into a mysterious ancient elven city deep below the earth, Miralla and the elf Cloiralys find themselves in the clutches of a strange magical machine: a machine that seems programmed to wring every last bit of pleasure from its hapless victims...
Bhismirr is a young caravan-guard from the desert country. He has everything in life that he wants: steady employment, enough money for booze, a lover who he thinks will be with him forever. But his whole world is turned upside down when his lover abandons him in an unfamiliar city with only the clothes on his back. Desperately, Bhismirr turns to selling his body for coin, only to find himself plying his wares to men from a rival country, a people who long ago once enslaved his people…
Beautiful, talented Sable is political tribute, a slave-girl trained to be a skilled lover for the High Priest of a mountain god. However, when she is presented before the High Priest, it is the Priestess who falls in love with her… and no matter what the law says, she is determined to have Sable for herself…
Kez is ship’s cook on a stolen ship crewed by pirates. The pirates are on the run from the corrupt Ascendancy government, and they’ve just picked up two new passengers: ‘unicorn’ people, aliens also fleeing for their lives.
On a dangerous, unexplored planet, Kez and the alien Seely are separated from their crewmates after an earthquake. Things don’t look good for their survival: with half-broken equipment and battered bodies, they struggle to hold out, hoping to be rescued soon…
Katrine, a pretty young witch, inherits her parents’ castle when she achieves maturity. However, she’s bored and lonely. When her crush turns out to have a girlfriend, she decides to conjure up a lover for herself… but she certainly isn’t prepared for the results!
