Stand Alone Tales

Her great-grandfather has raised Abil on Blue Station since she was ten. She was found on an unpopulated world and had been there since she was two. Her survival was a mystery that only her guardian had solved.Her affinity for calculation put her in administration as soon as she was old enough, and as long as she remembered to act human, she got along fine. Being raised by a non-verbal drake had been challenging, but language and social skills hadn't been on the agenda.Going into a scenario for a guest in distress introduces her to a rude drake who has to about face when the station master introduces him to some facts.Meeting him has caused an energy surge, and Abil heads for an airlock to take flight for the first time. As she becomes a space-faring drake, everything changes, and the stars become her home. The rude emperor is going to have to wait.

Tydella is the imperial princess. The only imperial princess. Her father had one daughter by her mother and refused to have any other children. He is a man of his word.Tydella travels with ambassadorial duties and spends her birthday on a space station with her guard crew. She learns something that endangers her travelling family and decides to get into trouble to distract her parents from what her guards have been up to.She heads out of the station on her own for a few days of unrestricted solitude and runs into one of her father's people while clearing customs. He's tall, he's handsome, he's stripey, and is going into rut. She can smell it. Their eyes meet, but she turns and takes off, waiting for a large ship to stick to in order to run through a gate without registering her location. She just happens to pick his ship.Ador is fascinated by the sprightly woman with flashing eyes and magnificent attributes. He is disappointed that she slipped away from him at the station and beyond fascinated when he catches her magnetized to his ship. He offers her a choice and is stunned when she agrees to help him work off his rut.She gets a vacation, he gets a partner, what could possibly complicate things?

Nessa has stayed away from home for ten years, but a plea from estranged family brings her home. Nessa is half faerie, half human, and drains sexual energy from the people around her. Ten years ago, she had a night with two lovers and has not felt the hunger for power since. It all returns in a rush when she helps her cousin save her boss.Nessa knew it was an awkward intervention, but when she recognized two of the VPs she was there to protect, she feels like it has been a setup.She saves the day and settles the men down for a restoring nap when one of them snaps up and plants a tracking spell on her. Oh, yeah. He was the mage to the other one's dark elf.Hector and Tynan have been waiting for their third. They have kept their eyes out for the last ten years, and when she falls into their laps, they are not letting her go.Stovos, king of the dark court, has watched his son's attempts to locate the woman and was beginning to doubt his son's sanity. When the courtship of his son and son-in-law exposes the woman that Stovos has been seeking, he is rocked on his own whirlwind seduction with a harpy of his own. She had been under his nose the entire time.