Fear (Galactic Cyborg Heat #8)

NOTE TO READERS: If you love the work of Anna Hackett and Eve Langlais you will love this. This is a sci fi romance filled with hot explicit sex, strong dominant men and sexy females who know how to hold their own. It’s gritty, confrontational and stream will be coming out of your ears. If you’re looking for something to get those juices flowing, you just found it. Enjoy!

This novel is written mainly in British English, with Americanism’s and slang from both languages.
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Louise Kanista (Lou to her friends) woke up one morning in a room in an abandoned building in a city of sky buildings on a Tech world. She couldn’t remember how she'd got there, just that she seemed around 5 years old and that was her life, the streets were all she knew. Lou reasoned that she hadn’t been alone on the streets as a baby or toddler, someone had to have cared for her but she didn’t remember who that was or why they’d left her but she never forgot they did.

Her tiny heart would ache and a panic attack would overtake her. Fear had been her life. Fear of being alone, fear of being taken, fear of being found. All she had was her name, no memory of pre-school, just a sense of abandonment and extreme hunger. Hunger that took her out of hiding in search of food. Lou had learnt quickly.

Find a job that paid and stay out of people’s way. Laundry, carrying shopping bags, dry cleaning, take-aways, collecting card, tin, bottles, anything that made a buck, that meant survival. She’d been luckier than most, keeping to herself, she hadn’t been used or abused, taken by a gang or bad people and sold, she’d kept to the shadows and eventually found Ameena.

A coder with a heart of gold. Ameena had seen her hanging around and offered to share her lunch, that day and everyday thereafter, till she offered her a job. She needed a gofer. Lou took it and gradually told her story. She didn’t know if Ameena believed her or not but, she went on to offer her a place to stay and Lou took it. Ameena fed her, sent her to school, opened her mind to what life could be like and the opportunities it could give. Then introduced her to her first love and a whole new world, code, computers and the beauty of software. And Lou understood it all...
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Fear, stood on the Bridge of his ship and looked at the Space Station the Cyborg Empire called home. A Captain and Councilman he’d been called to a meeting and sent on a mission. A new threat from Earth Corp demanded they act. The Empire didn’t want war but if Earth Corp wanted one, they’d get it. Cyborgs had long memories, they lived very long lives and wanted a future. The last war might have been over 40 years ago but they all knew that meant nothing.

They’d been created to fight, to hunt and were very good at it. They didn’t age like humans, logic ruled them, they were solid muscle and bone, with cybernetic upgrades and created to be bigger and better than any enemy and they were. They used those skills to explored their other needs, other passions and searched for answers to other desires.

Intel brought information that they were under attack, for the first time Cyborgs were at a disadvantage. Cyborg base code was years out of date. With no possible upgrades in the intervening years since they fought to be free, meant data had to be picked up from other vessels, colonies and planets. And, it was only as good as it’s creation. None of it cutting edge or advanced enough to help. They needed upgrades and fast, and a specialist who could understand how they were created, read their code and provide them with a new and improved version, one, that couldn't be compromised or hacked if it came to war shutting them down, putting all their lives at risk.