Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Not of This World: Interspecies Relations Takes a Turn









“I am not human. But I am still a man,” Kren pointed out. As if his striped cock’s sudden appearance didn’t tell that tale for him.

He seemed to take their conversation as permission to move along with the preliminaries. He sat up and looked down at her. Jeannie’s heart fluttered like a butterfly beating its wings within her chest as he moved the covers all the way off her, exposing her from head to toe. As his starburst eyes traveled down from her face, she had the sudden compulsion to cover herself. Her hands twitched in that direction instinctively.

“No. Don’t hide,” Kren whispered. His big warm hands circled her wrists and stretched her arms up. “Hold on to the frame. Keep your hands there.”

His voice was soft but an undercurrent of expectation made Jeannie’s fingers curl around the bars. She’d never met anyone who could speak so gently and yet command authority at the same time. Combined with the unwavering way he looked at her, she felt like a fly trapped in a spider’s web, waiting to be eaten up.


* * *

He was her savior, but she was his salvation.

Jeannie Gardner escapes from her captors’ clutches only to find herself trapped on a planet far from Earth. When she is discovered by a muscle-bound warrior, she must prove to him, and the Council of Elders, that she is not a creature set free from a lab, but a sentient being from another planet.

If she succeeds, they will send her home. If she fails, she will be executed.

Risnar warrior Kren Bolep is duty bound to protect his village from the Monsuda and their creations. But this small pink-skinned female is different, special. As the bond between them grows, Jeannie’s vulnerability invokes Kren’s protective instincts, and he vows to uncover the truth and secure her future.

But there is a bigger threat looming. The Monsuda are coming to get Jeannie, and they’ll use whatever means necessary. When Jeannie is taken, Kren is forced to choose—disobey the Elders and place his people in danger, or lose the only person who makes him feel whole.


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