A science fiction saga best read in order about a galaxy torn apart by conflict and the men fighting to keep it together. Each book follows its own couple through a connected plot arc full of action, political intrigue, and colorful characters.
Everyone gets their HEAs once the series ends, but each book will end with a HFN. (After all, it’s hard to say they’ll live happily ever after when there’s still a war going on!)
Book 1 – The Alien Bodyguard
Scarred lips resting on polished tusks…horned eyebrows over electric orange eyes… He was breathtaking.
Oliver Turner has been given one last chance to regain his rightful position by his father’s side, running the family corporation, but he can’t keep his eyes off his klah’eel bodyguard. Oliver wants the man with an intensity that both scares and shocks him, and he’s terrified of letting the desire pass him by after being so afraid for so long that he’d never desire a man again. But Oliver has spent his whole life chasing the love and approval of his father, and he can’t let that slip through his fingers when he’s so close.
Captain Mal’ik can’t believe that the yearning, longing scent pouring from the beautiful human man he’s been assigned to protect is for him. Mal’ik has been a soldier for decades and bears the proof of it in his mangled face and metal arm. Surely the prissy, brilliant young man can’t want him of all people. And yet, the way Oliver Turner looks at Mal’ik makes him feel like he could be so much more than just the scarred tool of an empire.
As Oliver and Mal’ik wrestle with their surprising and unfamiliar feelings, the tense political situation surrounding them explodes into chaos. They will both be forced to make choices they never thought they’d make. Is it even possible for them to choose each other?
Book 2 – The Alien Infiltrator
“He gets under my skin like a splinter. Like shrapnel.”
Leon Hess has just started a war. As the Resistance’s new leader, the only thing that matters to him is driving out the Klah’Eel forces that have occupied his home for decades. He will do whatever it takes, pay whatever cost, deploy whatever tool he must.
But his best tool, the one that makes everything possible, is also the man he can’t bear to look in the eye.
Sebastian is a torvar—a parasitic worm physically capable of body-hopping at will and morally capable of body-stealing with impunity. As the most hated and feared of all races, instead of living a quiet life hiding his nature, Sebastian chose to out himself and use his considerable skills to fight for the land he loves.
But no matter how hard he works himself or how often he risks his life for his country, for the Resistance, for Leon Hess, the man won’t even acknowledge him!
As the war rages around them, Leon and Sebastian will be forced to settle their differences, to form an unstoppable team, and to sacrifice more than they ever imagined.
Book 3 -The Alien Medic
Falling in love ruined Maxwell once. He refuses to let it ruin him again.
Maxwell Terry has spent his life as a doctor helping others, all while hiding his deepest secret from them. He knows firsthand the pain and terror that comes from falling in love, and he promised himself that he’d never make the same mistake again. But Garrett Twal, with his easy laugh and his charming smile, makes him want to break that promise.
Garrett Twal has always been the biggest and strongest man in the room, and for as long as he can remember, he’s used his size to protect and care for people. He’d care for the sweet doctor with the steady hands and the sad eyes too, if Maxwell Terry would just let him! Even if the man is clearly hiding something. And even if Garrett knows better than most the damage a traitor can do.
But Garrett and Maxwell don’t have time to take it slow with each other. Their planet is lying in ruins, with poisonous storms raging through the air and pirates picking over its carcass. As their relationship heats up and the danger around them grows more intense, will they be able to hold on to each other or will their fears and their pasts tear them apart and doom their home?
Book 4 – The Alien Soldier
“I told you you wouldn’t be able to stand when I was done with you.”
“I didn’t doubt you. I never have.”
Patrick Smith is being punished. For letting a good man go free, for refusing to steal from a newly sovereign nation, for disobeying orders, but most of all for being a human in an alien army. Despite his decades of service and experience, instead of being on the front lines to defend his home against a strange new threat, he’s stuck commanding a squad of misfit soldiers no one wants and no one believes in.
Fal’ran has always been nothing. Worse than nothing. The poor, uneducated, brat of a drunk from the Moon Projects. But with war comes opportunity. For the first time in his life, Fal’ran has a chance to prove his worth, fighting in the greatest military in the sector. Nothing and no one is going to stand in his way. Not his past, not his useless teammates, and definitely not his pathetic human commanding officer.
That is until Fal’ran gets a whiff of said commanding officer’s mouth-watering scent and his entire world turns upside down. The simmering tension between them is undeniable. But it’s also unprofessional and unethical and acting on it is completely out of the question as far as Patrick is concerned.
As a new species launches an invasion, Patrick must decide if his moral compass is really as reliable as he’s always believed, and Fal’ran must decide if what he’s always wanted is really what he’s always needed.
The Prologue Novella – The Alien Emissary
The metal tentacles tightened around Bryant’s wrists and for the first time in his life he finally felt…safe.
Bryant Harrison doesn’t do burglaries. His strength, his size, and his obviously once broken nose all mean he’s the muscle – not the thief. But he desperately needs the money to save his young daughter before she’s sent to a penal colony far beyond his reach. Alarm bells ring in his head as he breaks into the personal ship of an influential alien diplomat, but this time he can’t afford to listen to them…
Captured by the ship’s top of the line security system, Bryant expects to be turned in if not turned inside out and torn limb from limb. He doesn’t expect an encounter that leaves him limp, trembling, and questioning everything.
Emissary Serihk has always been the most powerful man in a room. Backed by the richest species-state in the galaxy, Serihk decides the fates of nations and of planets. But suddenly, all he wants to decide is the fate of one human man and his young daughter.
The human is tough as nails, clever and shrewd, achingly handsome, and a survivor of things Serihk has only ever read reports on. Yet when Serihk touches him, the human yields to him, trusts him, and lights a protective fire in him that Serihk has never felt before.
Bryant wishes he could fall into the arms of this commanding, elegant, awe-inspiring alien whose very presence wipes away all his crushing fear and doubt. But he can’t afford to lose his edge. He knows from experience that good things don’t last and people always leave you.
But does that mean he has to leave the one place – and more importantly the one man – who ever made him feel safe?
The Alien Scientist
Kevin Garin, ex-Human Special Forces soldier and current bodyguard to Dominic Turner, does not want to leave his embattled client to escort a strange, rude, infuriating, and, admittedly, pretty qeshian scientist through the infamously hostile Qeshian Dead Zone.
Sazahk, brilliant and disgraced biologist with a mission to rehabilitate a ruined land for the settlement of a dangerous new species, does not want to be baby sat by an overbearing, uptight human bodyguard (with a notably symmetrical face) who doesn’t even trust him to walk himself across the street.
Yet despite their differences and initial misgivings, between near-death experiences with corrosive ponds and unpleasant encounters with toxic fungi, the men develop a grudging appreciation for each other. That appreciation morphs into a shy, shunned desire, then into a desperate infatuation, and finally into something more powerful than either of them ever imagined.
But Garin has responsibilities beyond his own happiness, and Sazahk has never been any good for anyone anyway. And in the maelstrom of warring corporate families and species states maneuvering along the edges of war, there are more than Garin and Sazahk’s traumas and insecurities conspiring to keep them apart.
A story filled with opposites-attract and forced proximity (with a dash of science-made-them-do-it), The Alien Scientist is the second-to-last book in Interspecies Alliances—a series best read in order about a galaxy torn apart by conflict and the men fighting to keep it together. Everyone gets HEAs once the series ends, but first, each novel follows its own couple with their own HFN on this epic space adventure.
CW: science fiction violence, mind-altering substances, past trauma related to authority and medical figures