Guilt hounds Izzy. She caused her sister's injury and subsequent blindness. But no matter what she sacrifices, how she cares for Simone, it still doesn’t ease the ache in her chest. Now with Simone and naive Caro, her best friend, her role as protector is fully realized. What she needs is a knight in any armor; after all, beggars couldn’t be fussy. She has no idea that armor, in her case, means black military and that a knight could come in any color, specifically bronze. 

Vic’s dream was to expand the solar farm her mother left her. Instead, she must survive as an arena gladiator for Carne Corp. to pay off her father’s gambling debts. Now her dream is ultimate freedom which is granted to the arena champion. At last, the future she planned for is within her grasp, but when Carne conspires against her and augments her against her will, she flees into outer space, hoping to disappear. A chance encounter with an unknown alien species awakens her sexuality. Plans go awry, and there is much she must defeat before she can truly be free. 

Unlike her brilliant xenologist father, Mikaela can’t keep an alien creature alive. During her futile attempts, an alien rat bite triggers superhuman mutations, changing her into who knows what, and it might be killing her. Desperate to keep her late father’s ship running, she accepts a lucrative contract to tag and bag a dragon-like creature. She teams up with her childhood crush, Kiros, and his merry band of mercenaries. En route to the faraway Cetus galaxy, while fending off attractive Kiros, downright erotic dreams of a yellow-eyed man named Tieren torment her.