by Rena Marks
“What the hell is this? And what keeps the water out?” Amanda asked.
“I imagine it’s the same concept as a floating city. They’ve discovered some filter that keeps us from drowning. Perhaps it works with the salt content of the water? I don’t know.”
They were both quiet again as the car rolled up the lawns of the building. Upon closer inspection, the building appeared to be made of glass, with massive double doors made from a metal-like steel.
The doors opened and a group of four men in white lab coats stepped out.
Only then did the car turn off.
The robotic chauffeur opened his car door, came around to the back, and opened theirs. It was completely dry outside the car, which must have meant the tunneled chute was some kind of vacuum.
“Welcome, Drs. Becker and Saraven, to our humble abode.” His voice was anything but humble as the man who spoke waved his arm about the premises. “Apologies for the unusual way of transport, but we do think you’ll understand our need for secrecy.”
The one who spoke stood slightly apart from the other men. He was tall, well over six feet. His midsection was rounded, protruding beyond his coat. His eyes were deep set in his puffy, pale, pink-white face, and his hair was a mixture of silver and white. Not a single female was in sight, besides her and Amanda.
“What is this place?” Robyn asked.
The scientist smiled. “First, let me introduce myself. My name is Director Thomas Meade, and I am lead scientist of the GAH program. These are my colleagues. Roman Sabin, Nicolai Baratov, Huy Chen.”
“Good evening,” Amanda said. Robyn echoed her sentiment, adding a quick nod of her head.
The robot behind them was busy removing their personal items from the luggage stow.
“What will we be doing here?” Amanda asked. “It appears you have a team of scientists and doctors. Why do you need two more?”
“We’ve hit a brick wall…and you’re the best of the best in your fields.” The scientist inhaled deeply, puffing out his chest to stand tall. He peered at them out of his beady eyes. “Dr. Amanda Becker, Doctor of Genetics, on the cutting edge of genetic splicing, and neurosurgeon, with a degree in psychiatry. Fascinating! Such a combination.” He turned to Robyn.
“Robyn Saraven, creator of the Earth Judgment Court of Law, the first computer program that is self-repairing. Imagine that. A computer program that can debug itself. You have put us on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, earning a doctorate yourself, though you’re too humble to use it. And even more spectacular is that—like Dr. Becker—you’re a jack of all trades.” His voice turned sly, and his piggish eyes gleamed. The pit of Robyn’s stomach turned over as she felt what he was going to say more than she knew what he was going to reveal. “Welcome to our humble abode…Eve.”
Robyn inhaled so sharply she felt her nostrils constrict. No one was aware of her alter ego.
No one.
Dr. Becker’s mouth fell open. “You’re Eve?”
Robyn gave one short nod. As the infamous internet hacker, she’d accomplished more than the world’s best hackers—all during her teenage years. Her record had been expunged when she’d been offered the job of creating the planet’s court system.
And for some reason, this company had been privy to her best held secret. They were more than being supported by the Global Government. They had access to the top levels.
“I am more than pleased to make the acquaintance of both of you,” Director Meade said. “And so excited to have you on my team. Now, let’s move forward and discover our own deeply held secrets, shall we?”
He motioned for them to follow, leading them past the hoverway and up a sidewalk to the laboratory. The chute—large enough for the car—was the only landmark. It separated the air they breathed from the depths of the oceans by which they came. She’d assume more of the thick, enforced glass material sealed the entire length of their small lab and kept the bubble of oxygen stable around them.
Using a keycard from his front pocket, he slid it through the double doors. Robyn glanced quickly at the movement. Laser reading, the easiest to hack. Not that she was planning it, but it always helped to be aware of one’s surroundings at all times. It was natural with her, as inborn as breathing.
The keycard unlocked a giant steel door. When the door swung open, its dimensions were nearly a foot thick. She saw Amanda notice the thickness of the door also.
Director Meade caught her gaze. “A security feature,” he said. “Our systems will never fail, but should something unexpected happen, the laboratory itself is capable of becoming an additional fortress against the ocean walls. The glass walls aren’t actually glass.” His round face looked excited to share with them the secrets of the underground laboratory. “It is a material we discovered in the lost city of Atlantis. We amended it to use with the polymer of the nine floating cities, making it lightweight but adding immeasurable strength. And of course, the added benefit of it being as clear as glass. We can see any outside threats, whether they be a rush of water or a yet undiscovered underwater creature. It’s amazing that with all our advances, the depths of the oceans are the most unexplored region of our planet. There are some creatures at this level that date back to prehistoric days! Sea creatures we thought long extinct.”
The vastness of the lobby struck her first. White marble floors and twenty foot high ceilings gave it a spacious feel. Around the lobby of the laboratories were various preserved displays of ocean life they’d captured and explored. Images of the inner bodies sliced up and proudly splayed out as if they’d invented the sea animals.
Just beyond the lobby was a huge, round room with sliding doors like an elevator on either side.
Clearing both doors, Dr. Meade pressed the button for the first level. They were barely aware of being lowered. As soon as the doors opened, they entered the actual laboratory, the hallways narrowing and becoming darker with the dimmer lighting. He led them into a central area with a huge viewing window.
Amanda stepped up to the glass first, and gasped.
Alien Stolen
Rena Marks
Our world is different from anything we’ve ever known. Years ago, aliens came to live among us. They claim to be the good guys and yet every day, humans go missing—never to be heard from again.
Sian and her family resist the leadership of the new regime, along with dozens of other factions across the world. However, without electricity, they’re at a loss as to how to communicate with each other to band together for strength in numbers. For that reason, they fight alone. When her father and best friend are captured by the military, she pretends to be a pleasure worker to infiltrate the base. Unbeknownst to her, a pleasure worker has been summoned to service a new breed of alien—one with a known weakness. Sex drains his strength.
None of the militia realizes that when a Nisibian comes across his mate, he doesn’t lose his power…but instead transfers it to her.
Drunk on the power of being a female Rambo, Sian decides to steal the massive alien for herself. This much power at her fingertips could tip the scales in the resistance fight for humans.
Abducted
Book 1 in the Blue Barbarian series.
Alien abductions are real.
I was the third female awakened aboard the spacecraft that specialized in kidnapping females. Their mission? To sell us to other galaxies.
Human female Numbers One and Two didn’t make it, but I was lucky. I was able to comprehend the instruction from Drakar, a caged abductee from the planet Blaedonia. I live only because of his warning to me not to fight the aliens who have me on the table. Together, we formulate a plan for escape for both us and the ten other unawakened Earthlings.
Lucky for Drakar, the spaceship crash-lands back on his planet. Unlucky for the Earthlings, we’ll never be able to travel back home.
We’ll have to learn to adapt.
Book 1—Abducted
Book 2—Stranded
Book 3—Taken
Book 4—Captive
Book 5—Stolen
Book 6—Betrayed
Space Babies
Book 1 of the Purple People Series
Rena Marks
An antiquated ship, rotating through the galaxy of a deserted planet, bears immediate investigation.
Helian Six boards the abandoned vessel to find the long-lost inhabitants in a state of stasis. But the systems are failing, and half a dozen have woken up. The planet below shows long dead bodies, poisoned by the scum of space, a species known as Gorgians.
Strangely, the few who have awakened are much smaller than their planetary predecessors. And not very intelligent. Determined to believe the cute, tiny beings are not pets, the crew of Helian Six decide to train the small warriors to defend the planet. They become the laughingstock of patrol, however, after they commit and realize it will take twenty-two cycles to “rear” the inhabitants.
So they do what any intelligent males would do. Kidnap teachers. And if the females can’t manage to avert their eyes from their buff physiques, well, score!
Artificial Intelligence
Rena Marks
The Sirian galaxy has blown itself up during a war that mimicked that of the destruction of her own planet, Terra. No stranger to slavery, Arian has escaped from the planet Zeta where she’s been raised to breed royalty.
The Artificial Intelligence is a collective unit from the Sirian Planet B. They’d warned the leaders that a civil war would destroy the galaxy to no avail. In order to escape being destroyed along with the rest, they inserted their intelligence into the computer system.
Imagine Arian’s surprise when she encounters a huge piece of chipped planet, which her computer claims to have ancient Sirian artifacts buried in its hollowed core.
Nothing can possibly be alive. The contamination gases from the nuclear war have destroyed everything in sight. But Arian is a scavenger, and these are ancient artifacts…
Unfortunately, her hacked computer never tells her the artifacts are actually metal skeletons whose bodies need to be grown into dangerously hot men.
Stargazer Series
In 1692, a starship carrying volunteers arrived on planet Earth near a small town called Salem, Massachusetts. The long journey across many light years caused the female inhabitants aboard drastic memory loss. It was already known when they would arrive on Earth, they would have no memories of who and what they really were. They would be as helpless as newborn lambs.
The goal was to breed with Earthlings, to prevent their own race from dying out. If it was successful, years later more Stargazers would be sent to co-exist with the humans on Planet Earth.
But alas—the females were slaughtered.
Book 1—The Hunter
Dante and Kele
Book 2 —The Enforcer
Diamond and Felicia
Book 3 —The Defender
Hayze and Cassio
Book 4 —The Protector
Neo and Jessie
Book 5 —The Guardian
Vesta and Bay
Book 6 —The Destroyer
Jace and Mia
Betrayed
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Betrayed Copyright April 2019 Rena Marks
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Also by Rena Marks
Genetically Altered Humans Series: Xeno Sapiens, Earth-Ground, Siren, Beast’s Beauty, Almost Human, Forbidden Touches, Coveting Ava, For Everly
Blue Barbarian Series: Abducted, Stranded, Taken, Captive, Stolen, Betrayed
The AI Series: Artificial Intelligence, Serepto’s Story
Purple People Series: Space Babies, Baby Soldiers In Space, Baby Butterfly Kisses, Titi, Rock-a-Bye Babies in Space
SuperNatural Sharing Series: Forgotten Kisses, Remembered Kisses, Whispered Kisses
Kiss Me Before I Die
Stargazer Series: The Hunter, The Enforcer, The Defender, The Protector, The Guardian, The Destroyer
Wanton Sins Series: Demonic Passions, Demonic Pleasures, Demonic Power
Chasing Violet—written with C.L. Scholey
Alien Stolen
Born Again
Magic Gems
Shared By Wolves
Enticing Fate