Sunrise Alley

Charon #1

by Catherine Asaro

When research scientist Samantha Bryton comes to the aid of a stranger who washes up on the beach near her home, she is unaware that he is the result of an experiment conducted by Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research, and finds herself on the run from a deadly criminal, with only an underground group of rogue AIs and androids that can help. Reprint.

Genres: Science Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Ebooks, Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction Romance, Audiobook

448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

The author of more than twenty-five books, Catherine Asaro is acclaimed for her Ruby Dynasty series, which combines adventure, science, romance and fast-paced action. Her novel The Quantum Rose won the Nebula® Award, as did her novella “The Spacetime Pool.” Among her many other distinctions, she is a multiple winner of the AnLab from Analog magazine and a three time recipient of the RT BOOKClub Award for “Best Science Fiction Novel.” Her most recent novel, Carnelians, came out in October, 2011. An anthology of her short fiction titled Aurora in Four Voices is available from ISFiC Press in hardcover, and her multiple award-winning novella “The City of Cries” is also available as an eBook for Kindle and Nook.

Catherine has two music CD’s out and she is currently working on her third. The first, Diamond Star, is the soundtrack for her novel of the same name, performed with the rock band, Point Valid. She appears as a vocalist at cons, clubs, and other venues in the US and abroad, including recently as the Guest of Honor at the Denmark and New Zealand National Science Fiction Conventions. She performs selections from her work in a multimedia project that mixes literature, dance, and music with Greg Adams as her accompanist. She is also a theoretical physicist with a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard, and a jazz and ballet dancer. Visit her at www.facebook.com/Catherine.Asaro

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one didn’t enthrall me with either its ideas or its plot. A human who dies in a car crash has his brain circuitry emulated in an android construction, and runs away from his Dr. Frankenstein and lands on the short of a female scientist who has withdrawn from the industry over ethical issues. She falls in love with him, while facing many challenges of how to keep him safe from the uses that big business and the military have in mind for him. The rights of AIs and level of acceptance of androids with a human mind by society are great topics. The prospect of an all-out war for domination between man and machines will be familiar from “The Terminator” movies. The book follows the line of prediction of Kaku in “The Physics of the Future” that the progressive incorporation of computer elements and biomechanical devices into the human body will marry the two species into the same trajectory.

Nice try by Asaro to cover the perspective of the human heart on the personal acceptance aspects, but in this rendition the love story came off as tedious to me. And the idea that simulating in software all the brain connections of an individual as the foundation of replicating a personality doesn’t fly with me any more than knowledge of the transistor array of a computer tells you about the subtleties of the software programs running on it. I’ve enjoyed Asaro’s space opera in her “Primary Inversion”. I guess she does better where imagination isn’t fettered by more near-term projections.

[Username · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this one. I once met Catherine and liked her a lot, but I cannot say the same of this book. The plot doesn't seem to have been thought through, just written as it came to her mind. There's a lot of chasing and escaping at the beginning in the book that don't make sense, convey no feeling of danger and doesn't help getting the reader to care for the characters. For me, at least. Maybe if I was an older woman, falling for a potential sex toy... at least some of the creepiness of it helped me see how women see books with the genders reversed.
The heroine doesn't DO much, in the end, except being the center of the fixation of several male characters, from paternal feelings, to romantic love, to obsessive-stalker behavior.
There are end-of chapter reveals too glaringly intended to keep one reading, only to be defused at the beginning of the next chapter by a qualifyng "not really".
It gets a bit better by Chapter 10 or 11, but I wished all the time for a deeper exploration on the issue of what it means to be a human running on a different substrate. Or wishing to have more adventures with the cool stuff the androids can do.
Eh.

[Kerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

The theme of this book is age old and timeless: What is it that makes us human?

The setting is not. This is Earth in 2033, where information and nano-technology (and probably other sciences not specifically relevant to the book) have advanced at a great pace. Dr Samantha Bryton has been a leader in her field; she works with and develops artificial intelligences.

In this book, Asaro develops the concept of two different types of artificial intelligence. The first, AI, is artificial intelligence as we generally consider it now; it is limited by its programming but able to think within it. The second she calls EI, which stands for "evolving intelligence". This is AI that has surpassed its programming, becoming sentient. Now, that intelligence is not limited by programming and will evolve through experience and learning. Sam is one of the best in her field, but after blowing the whistle on ethically dubious research and suffering the following publicity, she has retired to her secluded home for some much needed time to herself.

Her solitude is broken when, after a storm, she finds a man washed up on her beach. He says his name is Turner Pascal and he needs her help. She soon discovers he isn't kidding. Technically, Turner is what is called a forma - an engineered body with an EI brain. But, he insists, his mind was imaged moments after he died, and he is still Turner Pascal and he is human.

It takes a little convincing, but Sam believes him. He has escaped from the madman (and genius) who made him and soon both he and Sam find themselves on the run, not knowing whom they can trust. The story takes them from California to captivity somewhere in the Himalayas and back to the States, constantly trying to stay ahead of their pursuers and find out just exactly what is going on. All the while, Turner is trying to figure what and who he is now, certain he is human, but discovering he is also more. Luring him on are tales of Sunrise Alley, supposedly a haven for EIs who want to be free individuals.

Technically this makes up the third in a series with The Veiled Web and The Phoenix Code, but there is no requirement to have read the other two. The link is little more than a reference to the characters of The Veiled Web in The Phoenix Code and to the characters of The Phoenix Code in Sunrise Alley. It is also interesting that the technology and terms in this book match many that occur in Asaro's Skolian Imperialate series. I have a vague idea that she has said that the Skolian books occur in the future of these books, but I can't remember where I heard it or if it is even true.

So what did I think? I'll admit right at the start that I'm biased. I love Catherine Asaro's books and I started this already predisposed to like it. I certainly did. It was a little slow to start, and the plot is very convoluted - you have to pay attention, especially to who is who, since that occasionally changes. It's about science and technology and how they may change they ways we define our humanity. It's about dealing with the ghosts of our past and about two people learning to expand their views of who they are and how they care for each other.

I found this a very fascinating and enjoyable read. Sam is immediately a likeable character and if Turner seems a little naive at the beginning, part of that may come from having recently died and being artifically reborn. He certainly develops and matures over the course of the book. At the end, he is perhaps both more human and less human, and a much stronger, deeper man for it. Sam, despite her work with EIs in the past - if not one in such a human and straight out "pretty" body - finds she carries her own share of prejudices that she must acknowledge and overcome. At the end, they are two people who fit together and are determined to stay together.

Sunrise Alley is not a romantic tale with a few futuristic sounding words thrown in. There is science in this science fiction. Asaro has a PhD in physics and her scientific background and knowledge shows in all her books. She has a great talent for combining science with an understanding of human nature and an ability to create strong, flawed characters that engage the reader.

[Copied across from Library Thing; 25 September 2012]

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I downloaded Sunrise Alley from the Baen Free Library, which is an awesome source for scifi e-books. I used to be a huge reader of scifi but had fallen off the wagon in recent years in favor of romances and mysteries. I found Sunrise Alley to be a nice reintroduction into the genre.

Set not all that far into the future, Sunrise Alley tackles the ethical dilemma facing a society where humans use biomechanical parts to improve quality of life in place of organ transplants, artificial limbs and even for cosmetic reasons. These advances have also led to the creation of androids, who are built using similar types of biomech. Alongside the advances in medicine and robotics has come the development of artificial intelligence. Sunrise Alley takes us through a event that brings about a new development, the merging of forma (man-made) technology with a human personality into the extraordinary intelligence of Turner. Dr. Samantha Bryton must lead the charge to help keep Turner safe from forces that would destroy him, both from fear and in the name of science, while she helps society determine if he is indeed man or merely a machine.

[Jon Norimann · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Sunrise Alley" is a surprisingly good novel about an android and those looking for the androids programmer.

[Nisha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I haven't read this genre is a while (since I've been addicted to historicals and romance), but this was a nice change. Honestly, I picked it up only after knowing there was a relationship in it.

The premise follow EI designer/scientist, Sam Bryton and a man she saved near her house, named Turner Pascal. The problem is, Turner Pascal is dead and the man she saved is a EI or basically a android created by an evil genius from the dead Turner Pascal's brain. Turner escapes from the evil genius known as Charon and arrives at Sam's place for help. And that's were the chase begins and both of them try to figure out who to trust and where does the line of humanity end.

It was a fairly good read. The story was intriguing and the sci-fi aspect was highly evolved. The romance was also kinda nice, though Sam's random bursts were slightly annoying. Ok, maybe its understandable since Turner's 8-fingeredness probably wouldn't have turned me one either. Still, the romantic in me could only see Turner as human, despite his capabilities.

I would have rated this book higher if it wasn't for the whole 'Charon' identity crisis. Seriously, it was so messed up by the end. Fine, everyone's 'Charon', happy? It was just so unnecessary by the end, specifically the 2nd to last chapter. I mentally just ignore it. It doesn't add anything to the story.

I liked the epilogue and it was one of the better sci-fi romances I've come across. This is actually more sci-fi than romance, but it was enough to keep me invested.

Worth a read. But only if you like the sci-fi aspect.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

(no spoilers, and not a book report) I'm experienced with this sort of sci-fi tale. Not particular to the robot romance, but in general. The first half was pretty exciting. I was hooked on the adventure. Once they escaped BART, I kind of lost the sense of where we were headed and confusion set in. By the time things got all twisted up, it just became unbelievable to me. Too many things just sort of just happened. Again. That first half, our main characters were pushing the story and making it happen. The ending half was more sluggish. Like crossing a river... the first few steps have nice stepping stones, we are dry, an easy path to follow. Then the stones ended and we get all wet and walk through mud the rest of the way. The final twist was most unbelievable. How was this not known all along? As a reader, I felt cheated. But, it was a great story when we felt certain that it was us (main characters) against the world. Everyone was suspect, evil and trying to control us. So as all the murky water started clearing up, I kept asking myself "really" over and over. I just wish it was pulled off a little better. All in all, a nice concept, good characters, and interesting. I'm glad I read it, all twisted up.

[Simeonberesford · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ms Asaro is a physicist and chemist with an MA,PhD etc. She also seems to boast a strong arts streak with lots of dance and literary interests. One of her novels has won a Nebula award. She has also a hat full of Romance awards though I cannot comment on how respected they are and is well published in both respected peer reviewed scientific journals and in literary SF journals. [return][return]She also writes crap. [return][return]The science in this is very poor. It is necessary not that you suspend disbelief but that you suspend thinking. It is not worth it, not for the sake of her hackneyed prose, uninspired plotting and wooden characterisation. Technically this was romance, but, how can you have a romance between two ciphers, two puppets, mouthing sawdust phrases? Well, It is pretty hard especially when you are also trying to block out the voice in your head telling you how unlikely the whole premise is.

[Rebecca Huston · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one that didn't care much for, despite wanting to really like it. The main character was fairly transparent, the plot predictable, and by the end I didn't give a damn. There's a sequel, but I'm not going there. Only for the die hard fans. Three stars only.

For the longer review, please go here:
http://www.epinions.com/review/Sunris...

[J.L. Dobias · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sunrise Alley by Catherine Asaro

I picked this book up in the kindle version- probably from the publisher-I don't see it here on Amazon. I'm familiar with Catherine Asaro and had not yet read any of her novels.

This novel reminded me of some of Heinlein's middle years - you know after the juvenile and after stranger in a strange and before the really wild stuff he wrote near the end. This is more on par with Friday. Except this female character has a bit more depth.

Samantha Bryton is a rich intelligent woman who, after having suffered the loss of her father and her husband, has become a bit of a recluse. In the year 2033 where everyone is connected by what they refer to as the local mesh, Sam is trying to shed most of technology. This is a difficult thing for her since she's a leading figure in the development of EI Intelligence and EI Psychology. To say nothing of the basement lab she has in her seclude home.

We find Sam on a secluded beach near her home after a storm jogging and checking out storm damage while remaining as disconnected as she can from the mesh. She discovers first a shipwreck and then the man who calls himself Turner. It takes Sam a while and much conversation before she discovers that Turner is and EI - sentient machine that's been hybrid into decease human.

One quibble right away might be that this story early on takes the shape of a slightly contrived plot.

Here we have Turner an EI who, although he died and someone named Charon has altered his brain with an EI, claims he is still Turner Pascal the human.

Since Sam has been a staunch supporter of the notion that EI intelligent machines are sentient and should be accorded the same rights as people this seems all too convenient.

But the contrived nature of this story is also a plot point so it works as it is.

There are a number of twists and turns in the plot and plenty of thrills and danger to match many Hitchcock suspense films. There are some places where our hero's get into tight spots and squeak out of them rather conveniently - again a plot device and that becomes clear soon enough. What isn't clear is the why to all of this and that keeps the story going.

The evil character of Charon is shrouded in mystery and there are some twists and turns here but there are plenty of clues about this to make any final reveals work well.

It was an easy read for me -in one sitting- and anyone who enjoys science fiction, suspense and even romance will find plenty to keep them involved.

J.L. Dobias

[John Loyd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Preeminent EI scientist Sam Bryton on her morning jog along her secluded beach discovers the wreckage of a yacht, goes for a swim, finds and rescues the survivor. It turns out that Turner Pascal died, was stolen from the morgue, his brain imaged and downloaded into an EI matrix in his rebuilt body. He thinks he is human, Charon thinks of him as an android and his property. Turner knows that Charon will be chasing him. Sam and Turner get caught and manage to escape several times. Whether it's Charon, the military, Sunrise Alley or whoever. They don't know who to trust except each other and they become close very quickly.

There is one reference to the characters in The Phoenix Code. This appears to be in the same universe a decade or two later, when AIs are more developed and some have become EIs. Bart, who Sam and Turner meet in Sunrise Alley, is an EI that becomes important to this story along with Turner who is somewhere between human and EI.

Exciting and romantic. Very smoothly written, the pages went by quickly. I really enjoyed the Sam and Turner relationship. Asaro does a great job in integrating romance seamlessly into all her stories (e.g. The Quantum Rose is awesome). There is a mystery element to the book--we don't know the identity of Charon. There is a thought provoking element--what kind of rights should sentient machine intelligence have? In Turner's case, where does humanity end? I wouldn't put this up with her Skolian novels, all of which are awesome. Still it's fun, entertaining read incorporating machine intelligence, romance, an enigmatic villain and a couple of really likable main characters.

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 3 out of 5]

This robot romance begins well. I had the feeling that the main female character "Sam" was similar to Dr. Susan Calvin in Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot" or To Protect, but that feeling soon dissipated. The "Sam" character is not as strong.

The action is reasonable if somewhat confusing, but I expected that initially. Lots of twists and turns, but once the story reaches Sunrise Alley (the place, not the book) then the story breaks down. It manages to keep my interest, but at that point I have no idea where the story is going or why. (If I go into more detail I'll give away spoilers and I don't want to do that.

Any problems? This book is partly a romance. By that I mean there is some "bodice ripping" going on and swimming through the sea in panties to rescue a hunky guy. Occasionally it gets a little steamy, but in comparison to full-out romance novels, this is light in comparison. Luckily it doesn't last too long, but it is embarrassing to an old guy like me. I suppose women feel they must endure ridiculous love scenes written by men as well so fair is fair.

I have seen other reviewers praise the author for a previous series that impressed them. I will give the author another chance. Frankly, even this series has some promise. I may read the sequel to Sunrise Alley which is "Alpha".

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting story. I liked it, but I might have liked it more as a book, rather than audio. It felt very episodic coming as audio, and harder for me to keep track of who was who, since I'm so visual. However, it's a good adventure story. The heroine rescues the hero on her private beach just after a big storm and he tells her he's a dead man who's more or less been resurrected and reconstructed as a self-aware android. After this, the story seems to become a series of abductions and escapes. It's a good read.

[Dantegideon · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plot was all over the place, and not in a good way. They just seemed to leap about for no reason. I found the romance fairly unconvincing, too. It didn’t feel like there was any connection between them.

[Josephine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well written not a new concept but well written

[Rachel Bonitz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was really good.

[Anthony Faber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another cyberpunk romance thriller form Asaro.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25

[Mars · Rating 2 out of 5]

It started well enough, and investigated questions of what it means to be human... well, maybe not in any original way, but at least interestingly. And theeen it went downhill really fast.

You know how you can just *forget* that you have a phobia? That happens in this book.

Charon's real identity is probably the single stupidest thing I've read in a while.

[Marsha Valance · Rating 3 out of 5]

SUNRISE ALLEY begins in 2033 on a Pacific Northwest beach, where a former biomechanical researcher, Samantha “Sam” Bryton, rescues a half-drowned shipwreck victim. When he revives, Sam is horrified by Turner’s story of being killed in a car wreck, but reconstructed as a cyborg by Charon, a ruthless criminal roboticist who immediately attacks them. Fleeing to a rendezvous with the US military, Sam and Turner are kidnapped by Charon’s organization and taken to his Himalayan headquarters. Escaping, they seek help from Sunrise Alley, a clandestine group of rogue AIs on a mission to insure their own survival. Having become lovers, Sam and Turner search for a refuge where their union will be accepted. The philosophical question underlying the whole story is “What makes someone human?” As a cyborg, Turner (once an underachieving waiter) now possesses unique abilities that can either be abused or used responsibly to improve human society. But will human society accept him as a member so he can do so?

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

How much of your humanity can you retain if you replace huge swaths of your biological body with machinery? How about your brain? It's certainly a well-visited question all over SF, as is the related question of the rights one should give a truly sentient artificial intelligence. When you're telling a love story in SF trappings, you're inevitably also going to get this corollary: can I fall in love with a guy who's technically more machine than man?

In Catherine Asaro's hands, with Sunrise Alley, the question becomes whether our heroine du jour, Sam Bryton, can love Turner Pascal, the resurrected artificial intelligence version of a dead man. I admit, I'm a sucker for this scenario--I've toyed with it in my own fanfic. And I've read and enjoyed prior Asaro works The Veiled Web and The Phoenix Code.

But this time around it didn't quite gel for me, and three reasons come immediately to mind. One, her explanations for why her cybernetic hero could modify himself to look more machine-like but could not reverse the process made no logical sense to me whatsoever. Two, the surprise plot thread that came in at the end felt entirely unnecessary and ill-explained. Three, she had too much "As you know, Bob" going on with the made-up vocabulary terms she was using for her setting--such as throwing out the word 'holicon' as a term to describe a holographic icon and defining the term immediately in the prose for the benefit of the reader. Jarring, unfortunately, when you're in the point of view of someone who should already damn well know what that word means, and it was especially jarring after having seen Charles Stross do it so much better over in Glasshouse.

All that said, it was still a fun enough fluffy read, even with the obvious hints dropped to set up the sequel. Two stars.

[Adam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sam Bryton is a brilliant scientist specializing in EIs: evolving intelligences, similar to AI but with the addition of self-awareness. Through an unusual turn of events, she meets Turner Pascal, a former hotel bellboy who met an untimely death and was brought back to life via a digitally imaged version of his brain and a body that is now more machine than man. The result is that Turner is an EI who claims he is human. Oh yeah, and he's on the run from the man who created him. As Sam falls in league--and in love--with Turner, she is forced to question not only the definition of humanity, but the *place* of humanity in a rapidly changing world.

It's an engaging premise; unfortunately, Sunrise Alley's writing fails to do it justice. The narration is brisk but also manages to be unbelievably wooden. The ethical and philosophical questions could have been fascinating to explore, but this book is content to splat them on the page and leave them there, lifeless and inert. Sam and Turner are interesting characters in principle, but almost nothing in the book actually got me to *care* about them. I felt only slight empathy for Turner and none at all for Sam, whose various moments of development mostly just made me roll my eyes. Everything seems to happen far, far too fast, most especially Sam and Turner's romance, which had moments so cheesy that I nearly stopped reading.

To the author's credit, it isn't all bad. The idea of the mesh (like the Internet, but exponentially greater in scope and pervasiveness) is fascinating, as are the various glimpses of other technology present in the novel's not-too-far-off future (2033). The contrast between Turner and the "regular", non-sentient androids that Sam interacts with is also interesting: stark in some ways but less sharp, more open to question, in others.

Sunrise Alley was a fast read, and its basic plot admittedly kept me turning the pages. I am, however, very thankful that the book was free.

[Scotwithone_t · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only read this book because it was a free download from the Baen Library online, and that I am planning on reading "Alpha" (which I hear is the better of the two books... I hope so).

The general concept is okay. I like stories about robots, cyborgs, AI etc. For the most part, this book had a good mix of medium-hard sci-fi elements, mixed with decent character drama, romance, action, and suspense. I think it could have been shortened a little though. While the action prose was pretty good, it seemed to be the same thing rehashed 3 or 4 times throughout the book. How many times do we need to see the protagonist pair get chased, captured, separated, reunited, and escape?

Then there is the issue with the twist (or twists) about the main villain, Charon (and I'll refrain from spoiling it here). I'm usually all for twist endings, but this one just seemed way to tacked on. Even though there were subtle allusions to it throughout the book, it didn't really add any wow-factor, or change the story at all. It just seemed like the author's attempt at one last surprise. And I guess I wouldn't have minded it so much if I hadn't already been thrown a couple other curve-ball twists regarding the same character earlier on in the novel.

So overall, it was an entertaining read, but it's not the kind of book that I'll tell my friends to go out and read. Two stars seems a bit harsh, but three would be too much. 2.5/5 would be a better rating, but goodreads doesn't allow half-stars.

[Amloid Mesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a re-read for me. It's still a good book. Nothing like her other books not much intrigue. Good book non the less.

[Carolyn F. · Rating 3 out of 5]

First complaint, the woman on the front looks like Little Orphan Annie all grown up. The woman describes her blonde hair in the book brushing her shoulders. Uh, what the hell! Do the cover artists not get any pertinent information or they get the gist of the story and are able to go with whatever they want.

The second thing I didn't care for were the hero and heroine constantly being tricked. Now the finally found someone to help, nope - they're working for the bad guy too. This happened over and over again.

And then who is the bad guy? Is it Turner, Bart, Alpha, Hud or Samantha or maybe everyone. I disliked the ending because of this.

I have another book by this author that I'm hoping is a little better.

[Nicholas Whyte]

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1111506.html[return][return]Didn't take long to read (300 pages, many of them blank, large print); not as awful as some of the other Asaro books I have read, but not specially outstanding either. It's a near-future story of artificial intelligence, including a robot so cute that our heroine falls straight in love with him. I found the portrayal of the military securocrats who get in the way pretty unbelievable, and likewise the psychology of the romance, but the questions raised about humanity and intelligence are valid enough.

[Ruru · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, but not as gripping as Primary Inversion, which is the only other book I've read by this author. This one is about androids and humans, and the ways they converge and diverge, which is an interesting theme. However, the main character is not particularly well-developed, and I dislike the marysue-ish 'I don't feel I'm attractive but everyone else in the book falls for me' bit. The secondary main character had a more intriguing personality but was filtered through the first character, who I was irritated by. So an interesting premise, and decent but not particularly novel development of ideas.

[Laura Herbertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Generally a good read. I loved parts of Sunrise Alley and really disliked other parts.

Good parts: the ethical debate of the difference between a human and android. If someone dies and their organs are replaced by biomech, are they still human? Or are they machines, and therefore possessions?

Bad parts: the main character is supposed to be the #1 person in her field of biomech technology but is always two steps behind her human/android boyfriend. She calls her military friends for help a lot, and has to be rescued a lot. When she is rescued, she plays no part in the escape. With a woman of her intelligence, she was a pretty helpless heroine.

[Pam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fumbling plot, completely random and inconsistent characters, and an attempted twist that is yawn-worthy. The premise (are artificial intelligences that can simulate emotions and pass Turing tests to be treated as humans or slaves) was fair, but the preachy attitude is on par with Ayn Rand's novels. It'd make a movie that I'd watch just because things blow up and people run around with big guns. As long as they cut out the dumb sex scenes.

[Gerold Whittaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Research scientist Samantha Bryton is enjoying the peace and freedom in the remote setting of her home when she notices someone in the sea. When she pulls this shipwrecked stranger from the water, she is unaware that he is something much more than human - or that he will take her back to her past she is trying desperately to forget...
I read the free e-book version downloaded from : Baen