She died a hero. She has been remade to do it for a living. Venda was having a nice lunch with a friend when her life took a wrong turn. She and her friend were held hostage, and when the payoff didn’t arrive in time, she put herself between her friend and harm. Dying wasn’t pleasant, but waking up in a mainframe took some getting used to. Venda uses her connection to the data stream to learn how she died and who was responsible. Once that little task was accomplished, she set out to gain revenge on the ones who had killed her in such a vile and public manner. Her little revenge adventures gain attention, and soon, there are members of the cluster hero teams standing in front of her mainframe, asking if she would like a pardon in exchange for a little light espionage. How can she resist? She can have a body again if she joins Team Eight.

Yadeel finds herself fired, kidnapped, and threatened with dissection on the same day. Being rescued is needed, but it doesn’t turn out the way she expects. Yadeel has been teaching for the last six years as far away from home as she can get without coming back. She gets fired and abducted two weeks from the end of her contract and wakes in a cell. Someone somewhere on W’lyn is looking to take her apart and use her for medical purposes. She did not volunteer for any of it. She uses her talent for instinct to escape and is on a cliff edge when a guardian plucks her from the stone and brings her to safety. It was Toryl, and if there was anything she knew, it was that she was not his type. It would have been so much better if she didn’t know that he was her mate. He had no clue. Toryl was the strongest guardian of his age, and Yadeel had been a friend of his younger sister. When he sees her climbing down the cliff face leaving a trail of blood from her lacerated hands, he brought her to safety immediately. Once he met her gaze, his intentions took a sudden shift. Things complicate quickly.

Kabyl's family has run a careful supply business, keeping the essentials in stock in order to help her town and the villages around it survive the long, dark winter.Rumors of beasts beyond the standard shifters are beginning to surface, and when regulars don't show up for their fuel rations, Kabyl has to brave the dark and the cold to find out if natural death has taken her family's friends or if there is something darker than death in the land of snow.A wellness check turns into a fight for survival, and Kabyl has to dig deep to stay alive. She had no idea she was going to find a dragon. The dragon was just as surprised.

Tormented by those who should have protected her, Olivia has one chance at an actual life, and she just has to give herself with no reservations.     Born to blossom into an omega, something in Olivia’s life went wrong. Instead of having her heats and looking for her own alphas, she is defective. Her body gives her pain, and she wants nothing to do with the thought of a sexual liaison with anyone.   Her sister follows her father’s footsteps and keeps her on their property and running the bed and breakfast, which is a boring existence for Olivia until her heat is due and her rule against taking reservations during that time is broken by her greedy sibling. There is an emergency, and they are going to be hosting a guest.   No one said the guest would be an alpha.   What follows is a meeting, a realization, and a rescue that changes not only Olivia’s life, but that of her pride as well. Argus is just going to a family wedding rehearsal when he begins hearing the phrase defective omega. He has researched a lot of omegas, and there is no such thing as a defective one. When he realizes that these words are describing the dainty little woman who helped his panthers get settled, he has a quick discussion with his pride mates, and they head off to rescue the omega in question. With any luck, she will choose them. If not, they will have to charm her. Either way, Olivia is theirs.

Janessa’s bond was sold to a mining consortium. If she can make it five years, she’s free. A blood-drinking Hmrain stops her plans. Janessa’s bond was sold to a mining company. She had no idea if she would be administration or grunt work. She could do either, but her learning issues meant that she was more likely to end up working to death. Or there was the option of her being a reward for other workers, but she hoped it wasn’t the case. The transport pod is hijacked by a terrifying species. Terrans from the transport are selected for torture for entertainment, and Janessa just manages to live longer than the others. That has its pros and cons when her barely surviving self is thrown to a monster in the hold, and he starts sniffing around. She thought she was doomed when she saw the teeth, but he took care of her and helped her get stronger. When she realized why he was helping her, she was doomed. She already liked the patterns in his skin.

Petal gets through life one day at a time when a strange magical transport to the world of the fey sets her on a crash course with eternal spring. Limping after a devastating injury, Petal gets a delivery and opens it to find a box with a ceramic gingerbread house in it. One light touch and she was wearing a weird outfit inside the house she had touched, and instructions glowed on the wall. She had to find the king of spring, and he could send her home, so she took her cane and hobbled down the path that was marked with warm air and green leaves. The man that she found was stunning, but his focus was on the moment. She got along with him, he helped her recover from her injury, and then, they fell together to explore the present. When the woman in his arms disappeared, Damek was furious and tried to take his revenge, but as he listened to Puck, he woke up to the situation that his lover had been in. For the first time in centuries, Damek had to think about more than just the immediacy of his desires, and the alteration was going to take some time to sink in. It was a good thing that time in Underhill passed at a different rate to that of the mortal world. Damek had to study.