Sub Zero

Returning to the frozen planet Aren died on was bound to have complications... A Science Fiction Mystery from Angel MartinezMajor Aren Dalsgaard's newest assignment is to investigate a series of murders on the frigid planet, Drass, where relations between the Treaty settlers and the indigenous inhabitants have taken a nasty turn. A linguist and trained xenologist, Major Dalsgaard should be the ideal Special Investigations Officer for this case, but Drass is where he died, over a hundred and twenty years ago.Sent by his family to the chigyel city, Nyachung finds himself confronted with a murder charge, racial prejudice, and a man who claims to be a hero from his grandmother’s generation. The man could be crazy or he could be lying to manipulate Nyachung, but the sincerity in those spring-green eyes disturbs him more than anything else he's encountered in the foreigners’ city. Evidence that makes no sense, mysterious boxes, and a suspicion that they can't trust anyone in the city drives the major and Nyachung together and out into the wilderness. No one's telling Major Dalsgaard everything, but every step leads him closer to a feeling of imminent catastrophe if he can't wrap this case up in time. Ren Noletta, a bookkeeper, stopped into the costume shop on her lunch hour just to purchase an off-the-rack costume for a Halloween party. It was just an ordinary routine day, in a beige constricted world of her monotonous, predictable life. But thats about to change. What she ends up getting is a hot dressing room encounter with a mana strangerwho opens up a whole new world to Ren. A world it seems shes eager to embrace. Ariyel Esmund, rich, sophisticated, Englishnot just any man. He offers Ren a chance to explore her more submissive erotic nature. But he leaves it in her hands. Call him if she wants to more. And when she picks up her phone to do just that her whole world changes. Ariyel teaches her things, takes her further into his world of white leather and, at each step she find herself without second thoughts, with no regret. The texture to Rens world turns richer, and darker when Ariyel introduces Ren to his friend, his dark and mysterious colleague, Creed Bennett. Ren has to wonder what the deeper relationship is between the men. Its intoxicating when she becomes the focus of both. Creed is something far different than Ariyeland Creed wants her for himself. The rules are set, the bargain made. This is a world that forces Ren to examine her desires, her loves, her very heart and soul. Shes caught between the angel and the demon, and soon Ren is taken on a journey where she will explore her submissive desires. Rules are never set in stone, theres always room for negotiation, and boundaries shift far too readily between love and desire, pleasure and pain, as Ren begin her odyssey...without regret...