Cyborg Boss by Cara Bristol
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
His cyborg intuition says hire the liar…
Cyborg Boss
Ex-Cyber Operations field agent Dale Homme has kissed danger and betrayal more times than he cares to count and has developed a sixth sense for smelling trouble. Now he runs a clandestine factory beneath the surface of the moon Deceptio, where confidentiality and security matter more than anything. When a beautiful young woman arrives seeking a job, Dale knows within minutes she’s lying. Everything about her is false: her past, the people she claims to know, her reason for being on Deceptio. Illumina Smith? Even her name is an alias. Logic says send her packing. His gut says she needs his protection and his love.
But when her past catches up with her, the danger is greater than he ever imagined, and it might take more than cyborg’s power to keep her alive…
Interesting story, steamy romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: ☺️🤓😟😙🥰
The heroine: Illumina – she is a Faria, though her wings were removed. Her species is smaller than humans and their legs and lower backs are a bit frail since they fly more than walk. So she is sort of disabled but her legs are getting stronger since she has been walking more. She is also a computer sensate, meaning she could become one with cybersystems and integrate herself into the code. Very few of her kind had that ability.
The Hero: Dale – a former field agent in Cyber Operations, Dale is now the owner of a not completely legal chop shop called Moonbeam. He and his employees work in an underground facility on a barren moon called Deceptio. They build spaceships from scratch and also take apart existing ships, like a pleasure cruiser and turn them into other things such as fighters. Each of his employees signs an NDA and only a few people actually know where they are located.
The Story: Illumina has been running from her ex-life mate Alonio for months now. He is also a sensate, and though he isn’t as good as she is, it is what allows him to find her wherever she goes. He had sliced off her wings and found her in a hospital, where he killed the worker that was helping her. So, when she heard about the Job at Moonbeam and the secrecy surrounding the job and the location, she knew it was where she would be safe. Dale knew she was lying about her credentials and other things but for some reason he hired her anyway. He hasn’t had a vacation or hooked up with a female in quite a while, but he has a policy against being intimate with his employees. Though he seems to have an overwhelming interest in Illumina and she in him.
“Hunger had evaporated the instant she’d sensed the object of her obsession had entered the mess hall. She had a visual eidetic memory, and Dale’s image had burrowed into her mind, interrupting an already-fitful sleep with sexual dreams. Disturbing and inappropriate, but at least they crowded out the nightmares.”
The story was really good. It was interesting and suspenseful. The romance was cute and steamy. I liked that the two main characters got to know each other, but didn’t wait too long to get busy. They were attracted to each other from the start and both were consenting adults so they didn’t wait to act on their feelings.
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