God, can I just say that I love romance novels a lot? I was fraught with suspense throughout Deal with the Devil, and yet! Because I knew it was a romance novel, I knew everything was going to work out for a best. But then they get out of there alive! Because it’s a romance novel! Kit Rocha have been writing dystopian SF romance for many many years, and they are reliable as fuck when it comes to setting up found families you adore and ratcheting up the stakes of their dystopian world until you can’t see a way that anyone gets out of this alive. Also, Nina and Knox most definitely want to bone. BUT A GRUDGING RESPECT FORMS AND OH NO WHAT WILL THEY DO NOW. So Knox and his guys propose a team-up to do a theft, knowing all the while that they plan to give up Nina’s team to the forces of evil. The bad guys will give them back the hacker - in exchange for Nina. Meanwhile, Knox and his team of supersoldiers have defected from their handlers because it’s the Right Thing to Do, but bad guys have seized their biochem hacker, the only person capable of keeping their brain implants from degrading and killing them all by inches.

They share knowledge and stories with their community and try to make people’s lives better. In the aftermath of enormous solar flares and governmental collapse, Nina and her team of mercenary librarians have carved out a home for themselves. But there is hope! Kit Rocha’s Deal with the Devil is here, and it has all the happiness (and waving rods 1) you could desire! There is a happiness drought, and we are denounced as frauds for believing we can find it. We each spend these quarantimes dowsing for happiness, waving our rods hither and yon in the ever-more-vain hope that happiness will appear just beneath the surface.

Kit rocha deal with the devil