Aries Awakened

Book excerpt: Helix is a woman always looking over her shoulder, navigating life with unusual abilities – fire powers – that attract nothing but death and destruction. Abandoned as a baby and bounced from foster home to foster home, Helix seeks to discover why she is different, cursed even. It might be the key to figuring out a permanent way to stamp out the powers that leave her isolated and alone. Azra is an incubus, a Dark Creature from the world, Ether, forced to hide out on Earth after a clash with his former clan. Needing to feed on sex and sexual fantasies, Azra corners Helix one night in a dark alley. But Helix’s fire powers take over, and Azra realizes that she is not just another human; she’s a Zodiac from his own home world, though she doesn’t know it. Joining forces, Helix and Azra find a way to help each other get what they want: he will bring her to Ether and help her get rid of her destructive powers if she will first use them to help him defeat Lady Kae, the clan leader who usurped him. But nothing goes as they intend, including their unexpected and unstoppable attraction to each other. By turns fantastical, inventive, romantic, and packed with wry humour, Aries Awakened is sure to become a new classic of the genre.