Zanar has made himself a home on Earth, where he owns Stardust Bar, popular with both aliens and humans. There’s only one thing missing from Zanar ‘s life. Despite his best efforts to impress the human females he meets, he’s still without a mate. At the age of twenty-six, it isn’t dire for him to pair off and start a family just yet, but he’s lonely and ready to settle down. The last thing he expects is for Celeste to come into his life and turn it upside down.
Celeste is back on Earth, after having been abducted by an alien race five years ago. She’s spent those years as a slave on the planet Vaaden, where she had a precious daughter with her owner, Pynder. But when Pynder dies suddenly, his parents swoop in and snatch Sophie from Celeste’s arms before banishing her from their world. Celeste will do anything to get her daughter back, but falling in love with a bartender — or anyone else — was never part of the plan.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Brielle has waited faithfully for her fiancé to return from Terran Prime, only to discover she’s been engaged to a lying, cheating bastard who tosses her out on her rear the moment he’s back on Earth.
Not one to go down without a fight, Brielle will do anything to ensure her survival — even sign up for a bride exchange on another world.
Syl has lived his life in his lab, always preoccupied with his experiments. But the moment he sees Brielle, he realizes that perhaps his life has been missing something after all.
Wanting and having are two different things. What would an exotic looking female like Brielle want with an alien geek like him?
EXCERPT
Syl was more than a little aware of the woman who had moved in downstairs. He’d watched from his wall of windows as she entered the building, a trail of Terrans following in her wake, all anxious to get a look at their potential mate. If he hadn’t been so busy, he might have joined their ranks. It wasn’t that there weren’t females on Terran; there just weren’t any available females on Terran. Big difference.
He looked around his pristine lab and wondered when his work had become his life. For two years now, they had accepted mates from other worlds, predominantly Earth, but not once had he ever contemplated claiming a mate for himself. His work kept him busy and had, up to this point, kept him happy. But now he wondered if maybe there was something missing in his life.
It wasn’t uncommon for him to take a trip off world every six months to visit the floating brothel nearby. He knew the women were clean, had insisted on them being tested regularly the first time he’d visited, threatened to bring it before the intergalactic council as a health hazard, but there was something lacking from the encounters. Yes, he was able to relieve some stress, but it was so… clinical. There was no passion involved; the women merely did their jobs, jobs they hadn’t asked for to begin with. His conscience always pricked, knowing he was sleeping with a woman who had been forced into that lifestyle.
What would it be like to sleep with a woman because she wanted him? What would it be like to be wanted? No one wanted him, never had. Even his own mother hadn’t known what to do with him when he was a child, always more interested in what went on in the labs than in the training fields. He came from a long line of proud warriors, and while Syl knew how to use a sword and various other weapons, it wasn’t the life choice for him. He preferred beakers of solutions, test tubes filled with green goo, or assisting the weapons designer with new projects. He worked on everything from inoculations to laser weapons. There was never a dull moment.
And yet it wasn’t fulfilling enough. Not anymore. He wanted something else in life, something he’d never thought to dream of before. Syl wanted a family, a mate to call his own and children who would either take after their beautiful mother or their brilliant father. He’d watched from his windows as families had gone on outings to the local park areas or the swimming pool, watched his friends pair off one at a time. When would it be his turn?
The new Earth woman was beautiful, from what he remembered. There had been a brief video that had played for all of Terran, a shot of her punching her ex-fiancé after she had discovered he’d cheated on her. In Syl’s opinion, she should have done much worse to the male. He obviously hadn’t been worthy of her, and to his way of thinking, she was much better off without him. He didn’t understand what had prompted her to become a bride and move to Terran, and he wouldn’t question her if they met face-to face. If she wanted to share the story, she would in her own good time, he was certain.
“What do I know of females?” he muttered as he mixed two solutions. “My own mother didn’t want me. Why would a mate?”
Bane has wanted Ariana since the first moment he met her, except she belongs to his brother Arko. When a tragedy happens, Bane steps forward to claim Ariana as his own, but Keshpan law states a slave can never be a bonded mate. That isn’t going to stop Bane from loving her every day for the rest of his life, though.
When Ariana is kidnapped by space pirates, Bane is determined to rescue her, no matter the cost. But things are getting bad back home on Keshpa, a political storm is brewing that just may rip Ariana from his arms the moment he returns with her. Bane will stop at nothing to have her by his side, even if it means turning his back on his people and his culture. He’ll walk away from it all to have the woman he loves by his side.
After an accident, Lucie has spent the past two years nearly blind and dependent on her owner, Cael. But things are changing for Lucie and the other slaves. As part of an agreement for a chance at a new life, Cael has given up his rights to Lucie and now she finds herself faced with a ship full of Tarnan males who want only one thing – a mate.
Prince Drexyl of Tourmalane is intent on collecting the bounty on the four Keshpan males on board the Lynten 12. What he doesn’t expect is to come face to face with his destined mate – a woman he’d thought didn’t exist. Having come from a world where women are extinct, Drexyl is completely enthralled with the tiny human female, and willing to do anything to keep her by his side. Even take on an entire ship of Tarnans by himself.
Kidnapped by pirates, all Meghan wants is to return to Earth and her brother, the only family she has left. Unbeknownst to Meghan, her kidnapping was not a matter of chance. The pirates were sent after her. But before they can sell her, or worse, she is rescued by more pirates and taken to the alien world of Tarnan, where she is told she must choose a warrior mate. Determined to return home at any cost, Meghan refuses every advance made to her.
Zayne, an inventor of weapons, isn’t sure what to make of the Earth female. She isn’t anything like the ones that have been brought to their world before. She’s prickly and rude, and sometimes downright hostile. When he beseeches the Prime to allow her to return home, he, instead, ends up with her in his home, as his assistant.
As time passes, the two grow closer. When Meghan receives devastating news, it’s Zayne who is there for her, comforting her. She begins to see the alien-hybrid in a new light and allows herself to open her heart to the possibility of a mate.
But the road to their union is a bumpy one, and both are left wondering if they will ever be allowed to be together as more than friends.
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