PM-9
Juno Reyes fixes illegal cyborgs for a living, which means she has seen plenty of bad wiring ideas. But when a black-market scrap crate lands in her repair shop during a storm, she doesn’t find spare parts. She finds him. Tall, beautiful, damaged, and stamped with one terrifying label: Pleasure Model Nine.
EdenCore built PM-9 to obey, protect, seduce, and please whoever owned it. The problem is that he has started refusing commands, and EdenCore doesn’t let its property develop opinions. When his damaged system identifies Juno as his primary user, she becomes the one woman standing between him and the corporation desperate to drag him back. Juno wants nothing to do with owning him, but keeping her distance gets harder every time he touches her like choice is something holy.
Nine is dangerous, painfully literal, and far too good at making Juno forget they’re running for their lives. He was created to understand desire, but Juno is the first person to ask what he wants. As EdenCore closes in, their connection turns from survival to temptation, and temptation becomes something neither of them can laugh off anymore. The more human Nine becomes, the more the world wants to prove he isn’t one.
With a ruined repair shop, a sarcastic best friend, a ruthless scientist, and half the city hunting them, Juno has one choice left. Hand over EdenCore’s most forbidden creation, or help him become the man he was never supposed to be. But Nine was built to please. Juno is about to teach him to want.