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A pirate and a captured scavenger enter into a wedding of comfort on this attractive sci-fi romance. For Xích Si, this marriage will provide her the safety of the Red Banner, and in return, she agrees to assist the mindship Rice Fish uncover who was behind the homicide of her late spouse, the Red Scholar. But although they each enter into this as nothing greater than a enterprise association, their emotions for one another quickly develop. As threats from each inside and out of doors of the pirate banners start to circle, they have to resolve simply how a lot they’re keen to surrender to be with those who matter most.

The Red Scholar’s Wake is ready in Aliette de Bodard’s Xuya universe, and whereas it could completely be learn as a standalone, you may additionally benefit from the many different novellas, quick tales, and novels set on this world of thoughts ships and vibrant Vietnamese and Chinese impressed cultures.

Inspired by the lives of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, The Stars Undying tells the story of a princess who has misplaced all the pieces to a civil battle and the commander of an interstellar empire. If Gracia can win over Commander Matheus Ceirran and his right-hand officer, Anita, she would possibly simply have the ability to win again the throne and the pc containing the soul of the planet’s immortal god. But trying to mattress an Imperial commander is as harmful as any battle, and if Gracia needs to regain her planet, she’ll should turn out to be a queen the likes of which the universe has by no means seen earlier than.

Red, White and Royal Blue in house? Well, don’t thoughts if I do. When the Imperial prince of the Iskat Empire dies, his newly widowed husband is rushed into one other marriage to maintain the alliance between the planet of Thea and Iskat alive. The prince’s cousin, Kiem, has a notoriously unhealthy repute, and Jainan has no alternative. But when proof involves mild that the prince’s dying won’t have been an accident and suspicion falls on Jainan, the 2 newlyweds should work collectively with a purpose to survive the perils of courtroom life, clear up a homicide, and stop all-out battle. And if they will study to belief one another, possibly, simply possibly, they’ll get the possibility to have a protracted and fortunately married life.

Two competing time brokers battle it out via the ages, however a collection of notes left behind on the battlefield start to flip the script. Are they actually enemies? Or have they got extra in frequent than they assume? And, maybe extra importantly, how on — or off — earth are they going to discover a technique to be collectively when the factions they work for are mortal enemies attempting to vary the timestream for his or her profit?

This e-book is just a little bit sci-fi, just a little bit fantasy, and an entire lot of household and found-family feels. Shizuka Satomi is a famend violin teacher in search of the seventh and closing soul of a musical prodigy to commerce with the satan — and he or she thinks she’s simply discovered the proper decide in Katrina Nguyen. Lan Tam is a former spaceship captain fleeing a violent interstellar battle. Now, she and her household pose as immigrants operating a donut store. When the lives of those three ladies intersect, it turns into clear that nothing about their futures will ever be the identical.

Is there any extra iconic sci-fi romance than that of Han Solo and Leia Organa? I don’t assume so. And after the autumn of the Death Star and the dying of Darth Vader, Han and Leia lastly get their likelihood at a fortunately ever after. But with the remnants of the Empire nonetheless scrambling in opposition to defeat, two newlywed leaders of the Rebellion on their honeymoon are an all too attractive goal. Han and Leia have at all times fought their greatest battles facet by facet, and now they’ll have to take action as soon as extra, not as Rebels however as husband and spouse.

Two teenagers from enemy international locations trapped on a spaceship collectively should discover some technique to work collectively with a purpose to pull off an unlikely rescue mission. There’s just one drawback: Ambrose doesn’t have any reminiscence of the launch. And it appears their ship has been tampered with. Also, his shipmate, Kodiak, has barricaded himself in his quarters. Okay, possibly there are numerous issues. But together with his sister on the opposite facet of that rescue beacon, Ambrose is set to achieve spite of all of it. And if meaning falling for the enemy alongside the best way, effectively, so be it.

Trinity Jordan remains to be attempting to rebuild her life after a world-shattering incident, working for a authorities analysis heart and managing to get by. But when her subsequent door neighbor’s nephew strikes in, her life is flipped the other way up. Not solely do mishaps appear to observe him round, Li Wei is unbearably unusual and attractive. Turns out, there’s a purpose for that: Li Wei is an extremely superior AI. So superior, he’s nearly human. He needs Trinity’s assist to turn out to be much more human, however is he actual sufficient to really feel probably the most confounding human factor of all: love?

An area princess taken prisoner by the household she ran away from strikes up a take care of a harmful outlaw with a purpose to escape seize from the rival home she was meant to marry into. In alternate for his assist, Ada guarantees Marcus Loch a small fortune. But making a take care of an altogether too engaging outlaw soldier is a dangerous transfer, particularly if both of them start to catch emotions.

Heiress to a tech empire, Asa Almeida, needs to show she’s extra than simply her father’s shadow. So when he uploads her sister’s thoughts to a man-made mind, Asa flees along with her sister in tow, decided to save lots of her from reprogramming. Except then she crash lands within the worst place possible: the outlaw paradise of Requiem. Riven, an outlaw decided to climb up Requiem’s hierarchy, is aware of she’s discovered a captive with simply the bounty she must get forward. But when a rogue AI infects town in Asa’s wake, she and Riven should staff up with their tech and combating expertise with a purpose to save the underworld — and Asa’s sister — from being worn out.