The Multiverses of Liza O'Connor: Cyborg

What would you die for?

I believe the answer to that question shows us our true priorities, what we truly think is important. I value freedom. I would fight to protect it. But if I were faced with the choice of a lifetime imprisoned or certain death, I would probably choose a lifetime imprisoned (hoping that I would find some sort of happiness with it).

In contrast, I truly would die to protect my dear wonderful hubby (though I doubt he would allow that). If the choice came down to his life or mine, I would give up my life.

I was watching the season premiere of Containment. In this TV show, a section of a city is exposed to a deadly virus and blocked off.

Some loved ones are in the infected area. These people, if they stay in the infected area, will die. There’s no cure and the virus spreads quickly.

Some loved ones are in the safe area. They will hopefully live long healthy lives.

If you were in the infected area, would you try to escape, knowing you could possibly infect your loved ones and other people? If you were in the safe area, would you try to enter the infected area to be with your loved ones, knowing you will die?

Again, it comes down to… What would you die for? Would you die for your loved ones, put their lives before your life?

In Defying Death, my latest release, Death, the cyborg hero, witnesses a moment between another cyborg and his female that is so touching, so loving; Death is willing to do anything to experience something similar to it. He rebels against his cyborg brethren, dooming himself to death, to find his own female, his own moment of happiness.

Death would die for one moment of happiness, of being loved.

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Defying Death

Cynthia Sax

He’ll risk it all for one moment of happiness.

Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.

Even the human female he’s destined to love.

Tifara is Death’s obsession, his sole opportunity for happiness, to express the all-consuming passion burning brightly inside him. He’ll do anything to obtain the curvaceous medic: defy a direct order, abduct Tifara from her battle station, and wage war on his fellow cyborgs.

To earn her love, he’ll have to risk much, much more.

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USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Sax writes contemporary, SciFi and paranormal erotic romances. Her stories have been featured in Star Magazine, Real Time With Bill Maher, and numerous best of erotic romance top ten lists.

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As Liza has wrapped up her delicious Multiverses series with the last story, Surviving Sojourn, and is all set to write a new yet related spinoff series, The Search for Sentients, I thought this would be a great time to talk about endings and new beginnings.

Putting on my reader hat, I’m always torn when a series I love ends. On one hand, I know I’ll miss the characters and the world the writer created. I’m also a bit worried that I won’t love the next series as much as I love the current one. On the other hand, the next series could be even better! Writers normally refine their craft with every story they write, every series they plot. The odds that the next series will be even more terrific is pretty darn good.

In Liza’s case, she’s already given us a hint that her next series will be awesome. We know that characters will be searching for sentients. Sentients, not merely humans. I’m super excited to read about the different species the characters will discover, what they’ll look like, their abilities, their goals.

Releasing Rage, my cyborg romance, is the first story in a thrilling new series for me. This dark, sexy, and very intense series explores the world of cyborgs, warriors who are half man and half machine. All stories will be standalones (they can be read on their own or out of order). They will each have a romance happy ever after for the couple featured in the story. But, of course, there will be things in subsequent stories that only readers of the previous stories will know. (grins) I’m tricksy that way.

How many stories will be in the Cyborg series? I don’t yet know. Often I’ll have a set number. In my Warlords series, I knew I’d have four stories (well, at first, I thought I would have three but then the villain wanted his story told). With Cyborgs, I know I’ll have at least five stories. Judging on the abundance of different cyborgs existing, every model having different challenges and different strengths, I can’t foresee running out of fresh, exciting stories any time soon. That thrills me as a writer.

How do you feel about series ending? Are there some series you wish had gone on longer? Is there a series you are waiting for?

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Releasing Rage

Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance's most primitive cyborg, has two goals--kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that's all he's been programmed to experience.

Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station's first female engineer, has one goal--survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage's priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg's heart for both love and revenge?