Single Dad Space Cruise
(2026)(The eighth book in the Smutt Books Short Alien Romance series)
A Story by Deiri Di
Lin thought she was just helping.
The winged Scrangie scientist looked exhausted, juggling cruise activities and a strange, wriggling larva. When Lin offered to babysit, it felt simple. Practical. Kind. A small favor on a singles cruise full of strangers.
She didn’t know the larva wasn’t what she thought.
And in Scrangie culture, love began with care.
Jax was steady, attentive, and quietly intense in a way Lin didn’t expect. She came aboard craving novelty, connection, and maybe even the possibility of a future. She just didn’t expect that future to arrive wrapped in ritual, laced with expectation, and shaped like something dangerously close to family.
Because she hadn’t just been babysitting.
She was being courted.
A tender, high-heat sci-fi romance about cultural missteps, alien devotion, and the moment you realize you’ve stepped into something life-altering without ever meaning to.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The winged Scrangie scientist looked exhausted, juggling cruise activities and a strange, wriggling larva. When Lin offered to babysit, it felt simple. Practical. Kind. A small favor on a singles cruise full of strangers.
She didn’t know the larva wasn’t what she thought.
And in Scrangie culture, love began with care.
Jax was steady, attentive, and quietly intense in a way Lin didn’t expect. She came aboard craving novelty, connection, and maybe even the possibility of a future. She just didn’t expect that future to arrive wrapped in ritual, laced with expectation, and shaped like something dangerously close to family.
Because she hadn’t just been babysitting.
She was being courted.
A tender, high-heat sci-fi romance about cultural missteps, alien devotion, and the moment you realize you’ve stepped into something life-altering without ever meaning to.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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