Viola Grace Knihy

Imara has lived a life separate from her family. She wasn’t shunned, just never acknowledged. The seventh child of a seventh child, she had had the bad taste to be born a girl. Her father’s family had no use for a girl, so she was sent to a city where the populace didn’t use magic. Now that she is grown and entering college, she has chosen the best magical college in the country. It just happens to be located in her birth city. When family begins to encroach on her education and someone threatens her life, can her new familiar do as he promised and keep her safe, or will Imara have to use what little magic she has learned to keep herself alive? Either way, things are going to be unpleasant.

Zera has grown up on a world where actives develop superpowers and are less than fifteen percent of the population. It is expected that actives serve society, but some of them have other ideas.Zera is a master of weapons design, but her active nature is that of a hopper. She can literally jump into someone else's body and hide inside. Her sister, Susara, is Suit Bait. She projects vulnerability, which attracts the right and wrong type of interest.When Susara's soul is shattered and she is left to die, Zera sets a series of actions in motion that involve a superhero escort service, patrons who pay extensively for the pleasure of a super-human partner, and clients with very specific needs.The Blind Date Corporation arranges dates between patrons and the escorts, while the escorts wear a mask that co-vers their eyes and blurs the memories of the patrons so that no stalker issues arise. The company is flourishing until one of the original patrons from the days before the masks outs Zera as an escort, and the entire plan of revenge for Susa's death ramps up a notch. Super.

Upgraded to defend her world, Haru-vel is unsurprised to find herself fighting alongside the Kek. She's shocked when she's handed to them... permanently. When they faced an incoming invading force, the Myvik turned to the Kek-mercenaries who travelled the stars and fought your enemy... for a price. The arrival date was ten days after the invaders were due to arrive, so they needed to buy themselves time. Thirty years earlier, the Myvik had hired the Kek, and the defenders had left something behind. Children. Haru-vel was named for the father she had never met, and her mother was the planet's greatest biologist, and she made sure that her daughter was trained and ready to defend her world, along with nineteen others who were treated to a genetic cocktail of unknown origin, except it wasn't. Her mother knew very well where the material had come from. It had been left after a memorable night thirty years earlier.

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 pridemates 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.