Gears & Girls: Book 1

Being a tech-serf sucks but being powerless and broke sucks even more. Trapped by crushing debt in the ancients-powered city of Alnda Alaric barely scrapes by on five-credit repairs and monster scavenging. Gaining his freedom feels more impossible by the day until he discovers a forbidden alien AI. Crimson Death isn’t just a program it is self-aware and pissed that it lost the war against humanity. He offers Alaric a simple deal: power in exchange for partnership. The catch? Put him out in the sun to recharge his battery. First order of business? A history lesson and a whole new understanding of the monsters haunting his world and the lies it is built on. The second? Teaching him how to grow monster cores into mech frames and build them. Alongside CD Alaric isn't just surviving no he is thriving. And the women around him are taking notice. So are those who want to use him. Elli the brilliant engineer best friend finally gets the man she