If the price is too high, you don't want it enough.That's what I've been telling myself, but if I'm honest, I'm afraid I miscalculated my ability to withstand pain. After stumbling across a secret so...

When I found out my best friend was mated to an alien, I had questions.My best friend was what now? Just no. Crashing onto this hellscape jungle planet was bad enough. Not to mention the near-miss to...

Someone was watching me.When my escape pod landed on a lonely planet full of B-movie monsters and other childhood nightmares, the abusive ex I left behind almost didn't seem so bad. But after a few days...

This planet wasn't big enough for both of us.Something was stealing game from my traps. I would wait until I could catch them in the act, except for one problem: the Doomsday clock counting down in my...

I used to think right and wrong were as simple as white and black. Now I'm not so sure. When Tansy shows up on my doorstep asking for help, I know I need to keep my distance, even though my libido has...

It was a rescue mission. Failing wasn't an option, but neither was falling ... in love. When the artificial intelligence VELMA selected me for a risky rescue mission on Planet Ikthe, I had one of two...

If you love a predator, you'll always be his prey.I woke up in a green hell.Specifically, a bog that VELMA tells me not even the burly alien hunters of this planet would willingly traverse. I've been...

I've got a hundred problems, but the little pickpocket Janessa might be the biggest one. And she's only nine. Something about her takes me back to my hard scrabble childhood, and I can't let her out of...

My teammates and I had bleak futures and pasts we'd rather forget, so when we were tasked with finding four missing WarGuard warriors from an alien race, we jumped in feet first.Now, two of my colleagues...