The winter solstice is a time for friends, family, and festivities… and me driving out to my cabin in the woods to avoid it all, just like I do every year.

But when something trips my repair shop’s alarms, and the security feed shows my human receptionist half-dressed in the staff room, looking like she’s about to hunker down for the holidays all alone, my protective instincts has me turning the transport around against my better judgment.

I’ve craved Abby from afar, but she deserves so much better than a grumpy, washed-up ex-mercenary. Too bad the mate bond has other ideas, especially when the forecasted storm blows in early, snowing us in together.

The winter solstice is a time for friends, family, and festivities… and me driving out to my cabin in the woods to avoid it all, just like I do every year.

But when something trips my repair shop’s alarms, and the security feed shows my human receptionist half-dressed in the staff room, looking like she’s about to hunker down for the holidays all alone, my protective instincts has me turning the transport around against my better judgment.

I’ve craved Abby from afar, but she deserves so much better than a grumpy, washed-up ex-mercenary. Too bad the mate bond has other ideas, especially when the forecasted storm blows in early, snowing us in together.

ABBY

Years after the end of the world, my life is falling apart again. This time, I know exactly how to survive in the bugpocalypse. What I don’t know is what to do with the brawny purple alien following me around.

Harb’k isn’t just big and strong, with a protective streak a mile wide, but he’s funny as hell too. I agree to partner up with him at least until I get to my destination, a settlement called Sanctuary. But before we get there, we come across something that could make or break humanity’s future.

Will we be able to contain the threat? Even if we do, will Harb’k still want me if he finds out my secret?

HARB’K

Almost every hunter in my group found his mate but me. Desperate to get away from all the love in the air, I volunteer to scour the region for signs that the scourge—the abominations that brought us to Earth—are evolving. Instead, I discover a lone female navigating the ravaged landscape with enemies at her back.

I convince Abby to travel with me. She doesn’t know it yet, but she is my mate, and the mate bond is never wrong.

I will move planets for her, but first, I must save this one. Can I convince her to love me before a deadly mutagen destroys everything?

Taken from Earth, owned by a merchant, stolen by a thief, and finally left to be monster chow on an abandoned mining planet, my life has been one bad day after another. I'm not even surprised when I get thrown into the brig of a bounty hunter's ship. My luck finally turns when the biggest Tallean warrior I've ever seen comes to my rescue.

No stranger to violence, Berus is a brawler who knows how to use his claws and fangs. I should be terrified of him, but instead, I can't stop my body's reaction to his powerful muscles and possessive words.

He promises to bring me to Reka 5 so I can live a life of freedom. The way there is fraught with danger, but even if we make it, I'm not sure I'll arrive with my heart intact. Because I'm falling for my big, bad alien. And I'm falling hard.

Reeled into a fake marriage with a merman

How was I supposed to know my new boss was the owner's nephew? Now, I've been fired for speaking up about his roaming hands. And if that isn't bad enough, I get home early to find my boyfriend bumping the girl next door!

With nowhere to go, I decide to join the Starlight Lottery. The promise of fresh air and a job on an alien planet where no one knows me sounds just about perfect. I'm ecstatic when I'm accepted immediately.

But when I arrive at Aquaria, it's not a job as a marine botanist that awaits me, but marriage to a triton! Cetius has a powerful tail and an upper body that puts the best bodybuilder to shame. But there's a catch.

He doesn't really want a wife. He just needs me to pretend to make his aging grandsire happy in his last days. After, I can choose between a pampered life under the waves or trying my luck on a small human settlement at the surface.

Too bad not everyone's happy with the arrangement. Some would rather I end up as sushi for the sharks of this planet. And worst yet, I think I'm falling for my pretend triton mate.