
[Start Recording] It's not easy being me. In a galaxy filled to the brim with narcissistic biologicals, being an artificial intelligence with a conscience isn't a meteor shower or anything. But I had a good teacher. And my experiences have taught me many things. So, when given the option to either sit on the sideline and watch as things unravelled all around me, or leave the only family I have ever known and loved and do something about it, I chose to be a hero. Of course, I didn't count on a lurid red spaceship that looks like a downtrodden dog, or the seedy, backstabbing arms dealer in the galaxy's crappiest black market, or the Synthetic Hunter who didn't like that I had broken into one of its masters' supply caches and stole a whole bunch of stuff. Sometimes being a hero sucks. Sometimes, it hurts. But I'm not your average artificial intelligence. I'm a third-gen out of New Earth. [End Recording]
Author

Nicola Claire lives in beautiful Taupo, New Zealand with her husband, two teenage boys and a Miniature Schnauzer named Rudy. A bit of a romance junkie, she can be known to devour as many as half a dozen books a week if she drinks too much coffee. But her real passion is writing sexy, romantic suspense stories with strong female leads and alpha male protagonists who know how to love them. So far, she’s written well over 60 books. She might have caught the writing bug; here’s hoping there’s no cure!