Sable Dark

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mazarin has everything an AI could want: a hep holographic body a joyfriend she's dizzy for and asylum from Wave the shady AI megacorporation that once held her captive. In their clutches she'd been confined to the anxious brain of her host Reed serving as his navigator. Now separate they enjoy a friendship and the knowledge that Wave's lead engineer Phil Rice who terrorized them for months is locked away in a court-ordered hospital stay.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when Rice escapes Reed's stress skyrockets. Though Mazarin is no longer in Reed's brain their connection lingers and she can't resist the desire to stick close and protect them both from Wave. If Rice abducts Reed it means certain death and there's no telling what the megacorp would do to Mazarin if she's captured. Reed's sudden nosebleeds paranoia and skewed sense of perception lead Maz to believe more is at play than his galactic anxiety. With Rice on the loose she can't be too careful.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Desperate for a solution to Reed's deteriorating health Mazarin risks her safety venturing into the company of untrustworthy AI decoist gangsters and even Wave themselves to find help for her beloved pilot before it's too late.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sable Dark is a character-driven cozy-ish decopunk sci-fi with M/M and enby/enby romance featuring a main character with autism and an anxiety/panic disorder and an accidentally self-aware A.I. with way too many feelings. The first book in the series Mazarin Blues is winner of the 2022 Indie Ink Award for Best Gay Representation and semi-finalist in the 2021 SPSFC.</strong></p>