𝚃𝚠𝚘 𝚟𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚕𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚢𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚊𝚍

It was a case of mistaken identity. Without stopping to see who was answering the door to the apartment he knocked on, Dutch blurted out the invitation to dinner. But instead of asking out the girl he had a crush on, he'd asked out her roommate, Penelope. Dutch decided one dinner date with Pen would be fine and that would be the end of things. Except...he fell in love with Pen on that date and eventually asked her to marry him. Life was perfect. Until Penelope overhead Dutch telling his former crush that asking Penelope out had been a mistake.

My high school sweetheart and I made it all through high school and college, and then we moved in together. Then one night when I came home early from work, I overheard him telling our friends I was smothering him and he needed space. Oh, I'll give him space, all right. As much space as he could possibly want.

I thought being abducted by aliens and thrown in a cage was the worst things could get. But I was wrong. Because my captors tossed me in a cell with a giant, snarling wolf and threw away the key. But then the beast became a man before my eyes. Our captors demand I rut with their prized gladiator to help him through his heat but he's monstrously dangerous and outrageously sexy-a big, scarred alien werewolf.

"I could tell by the way he looked at me. He was afraid..." Lilliana's interplanetary journey takes an unexpected turn when her ship crashes on a primitive planet. Stranded and injured, she must keep a low profile to avoid alerting the locals, who are yet to discover space travel. Lilliana soon realizes that she can't survive on her own and desperately needs help until her brother arrives. She is soon discovered, but the alien, Jarath, surprises her when he takes her in. Though they can only communicate through basic gestures, she feels drawn to him, but she is determined to never give her heart away again. With others of Jarath's kind searching for her, the race is on. But who will get to her first - her brother, or the aliens out to do her harm? Sparks fly in this romantic science fiction novelette. © Susan McKenzie 2017. All rights reserved.

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