Alex is a critically acclaimed painter and artist. Their work hangs in galleries around the world. But this new piece needs something they can't quite capture. Something special. Not just any inspiration will do.

Cancer is the watercraft-branch of the privatized Zodiac Forces. If you can float a boat, you'll find Cancer operatives on the water investigating. Whiplash and Cardinal are two soldiers off the coast of Italy, hot on the trail of an ivory smuggling gang. Instead of ivory, they find a message in a bottle calling for help. It's ten years old and the case is probably cold, but Whiplash knows a proper adventure when she sees one and Cardinal is along for the ride. It gets personal when the trail leads back to the very smugglers they were tracking. Both Whip and Cards are kidnapped and the woman who threw that message in a bottle: she locked Cardinal in the forward berth of the ship herself. Was it a trap for the Zodiac women or does the lady pirate want out? Separated from her partner and supplies, it's up to Cards to keep it together and get herself free. If it means pretending to cooperate, even pretending to fall in love, Cardinal won't pull any punches. **

Dora and her con-artist gang have been invited to an annual holiday party, a party full of thieves, grifters, and their built body guards. It's supposed to be a festive celebration, but a long-standing rivalry with the neighbors next door has escalated to kidnapping. Santa is missing and Dora has a ransom note. It's up to her team to save Santa while Dora distracts the host so no one catches on to the disaster.

They call him the Black Widow. Diea is a Gemini soldier, a special ops marine trained to work more closely with one partner than any other. Through the nanotech in their veins, a Gemini pair can communicate over any distance, see and hear what the other experiences, and it's been said when one partner is killed, the other will fall dead on the spot. But the Black Widow has outlived two partners. And counting. Phade has just transferred from Taurus to Gemini, and he's not intimidated by Deia's reputation. Phade knows better than anyone that the image people see is just a mask for what has been broken underneath. Even the hardcore have to let their guard down when the nanotech shares every heartbeat.

They're stranded on an icy moon with only one tent between them. They can't stand each other. And they're getting married in two days. Team Hendrix: close-knit like family, the rising stars, work hard, play harder. Hendrix is a fighter pilot for the spaceship Artio with a hand-picked team of underdogs, and this year they're making a run for the championship. But he knows politics and fashion will do more for him than flying, which is why Hendrix has been negotiating an arranged marriage with the one rival he wants to crush in the games. Team Kane: driven, undefeated, champion favorites. Kane loves nothing more than outflying the competition, especially that upstart Hendrix who has been chasing Kane's rise to the top. The only people standing in Kane's way are his political family, pulling strings and making deals behind his back. They're forcing him to marry the one man he can't stand, but Kane won't...

Maj is no longer Earth Standard Human. They've been modified by their father to be stronger, faster... and smaller. They've found their long-lost sister stranded on a prison planet where everyone serves the GSA in their trinordia mine. But Maj isn't going to be stranded for long, and they're taking their sister with them.

Monica doesn't remember yesterday or last week or even last year. She wakes up every morning in the company of 19 other women all without memories. And every day, Monica grows more certain that there are secrets being kept from everyone.

Maj is no longer Earth Standard Human. They've been modified by their father to be stronger, faster... and smaller. Escaping him wasn't easy, but Maj's sister Oyana is still a target, hiding from an even worse fate.

Single dad Scott wants a big family, but he just has his daughter, Lexi. Brennan steps to the challenge, knowing if he wins Lexi over, her handsome father is sure to follow.