By Cara
Bristol
(My
opinions are my own and not the SFR Brigade’s).
In 2007,
my family went to China. Previously, I had little interest in visiting China,
but the year before the Beijing Olympics we got such a great travel deal, I
couldn’t afford not to go.
China
changed my attitude toward travel. I’d been to Europe, the Caribbean, and Canada
& Mexico, of course. Before China, I traveled for vacation, to go someplace familiar and comfortable so I could rest
& recreate. Until 2007, the places I’d visited were westernized. But while Europe
is pretty impressive, it’s not that
different from the US.
However,
China was like a different planet. Oriental culture is so foreign, so unlike
anything we have or know in the West, it felt alien to me. I felt like a “stranger
in a strange land.” China made me want
to travel for adventure, to see what the world had to offer.
That
sense of foreignness and the quest for adventure is what I try to bring to my
science fiction romance settings. I want to take readers to places they’ve
never been,—but that are not so different that they feel at a loss to understand.
So I try to make my alien locales relatable to something they do know.
Planet
Xenia, created in an earlier Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance, is the main setting in Claimed by the Cyborg. It’s a vibrant, colorful
planet with fields of purple grasses, unusual flowers, and squat trees. The
animals are unusual: fish have legs and land mammals have feathers and wings, the
sky is pink, not blue, and it colors the planets streams and other waterways.
If the
planet’s flora and fauna are strange, the people’s mating customs are even
stranger, which the hero soon finds out.
Claimed
by the Cyborg Description
March Fellows assumed he had all the time in the galaxy to pursue a relationship with Jules, an alien exchange student from Xenia, until she vanished without a trace. After years of searching, he finds his lost love on the eve of her arranged marriage.
March Fellows assumed he had all the time in the galaxy to pursue a relationship with Jules, an alien exchange student from Xenia, until she vanished without a trace. After years of searching, he finds his lost love on the eve of her arranged marriage.
The
daughter of the Xenian emperor, Julietta never meant to fall in love with a
Terran man while visiting Earth. Leaving to fulfill her responsibilities on her
home planet opened up a hole in her heart that could never be filled. When
March, now a cyborg, unexpectedly shows up just before she is to be bonded, she
struggles to find the courage to turn him away a second time and follow through
with her duty. Before
she can act, the lovers are thrust into a political conspiracy that threatens
the Xenian empire and their lives.
Claimed
by the Cyborg is available in ebook and paperback
Amazon:
http://hyperurl.co/Claimed-Amz
Author Bio
USA Today bestselling author
Cara Bristol has been the no. 1 best seller in science fiction romance, bdsm
erotica, and holiday fiction on Amazon. She’s the author of two science fiction
romance series featuring tough alpha heroes: the Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance cyborg
series and the Breeder science fiction romance series, which emphasize
character-driven stories written with a touch of humor and sizzling chemistry
between the hero and heroine. Cara lives in Missouri with her own alpha hero,
her husband.
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