Recruiting Phantom
Description
Captain Sasha Barrett is on a mission. Murder is the goal. Revenge is the motive.
Ever since Sasha's eyes flickered open to cold laboratory lights, her body has been whole, but something alien lies under her skin. The cybernetics fused with her organic tissue weren't a rescue ? they were someone's work.
She's going to find them. Make them pay. And if a body count follows, that's their fault for starting it.
The problem isn't the mission. The problem is she can't run it without someone watching her six.
Her best friend is a SpecOps sniper. She could just ask him. Except... she hasn't spoken to him in three years. She's been meaning to call him. Honest!
The longer she keeps him in the dark, the easier it is to avoid finding out if she's still the soldier he once knew.
Turns out three years of silence doesn't survive five minutes in a firefight together.
And Zaven always could see straight through her.
Phantom Vengeance is a queer MFM slow burn, one relationship spanning the whole series. A scrappy crew built on banter and bad odds, a love story that refuses to be rushed, and people complicated enough to earn it.
Adventure, banter, and the galaxy's most inconvenient feelings. HFN ending.
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Person
S.T. Arsheep spent two decades writing copy for other people's brands before admitting that the novel-shaped thing living rent-free in her head wasn't going away. Turns out, all those years of making words do exactly what you need them to do is pretty useful when you're writing books.
Known as the Slow Burn Queen of gritty speculative fiction, this LGBTQ+ author reigns supreme in creating character-driven, slathered-in-feels sci-fi and fantasy that simmers with delicious tension. She loves pairing grumpy love interests with sassy, self-assured counterparts, and savouring every longing glance and accidental touch until you're screaming "Kiss already!!!" and yeeting your book across the room. Expect steamy scenes, witty banter, and happily ever afters that'll leave you smiling through tears of hard-earned joy.
A Scandinavian descended from Vikings and one Polish horse thief, she's an autistic elder millennial who loves a sinfully moist tiramisu. When not writing, you can find her at the stables, learning a new craft, chaos gardening, dreaming of countryside living, and doing the same thing she does every night - plotting how to take over the world. (No, not really, just how to start an alpaca farm.)
