She makes everyone feel seen. No one has ever looked twice at her.
Willow has spent eleven months bringing color to The Colony — one petition, one kindness, one stubborn act of sunshine at a time. It's armor, mostly. She's tired underneath. But nobody's ever looked past the smile long enough to notice.
Reig doesn't do sunshine. The Formorian says exactly what he sees, exactly when he sees it — and what he sees is a woman running the slowest possible version of an easy campaign that never needed to happen. He reads the bylaws no one bothered to read and discovers she's been fighting a rule that doesn't exist.
He thought he'd correct an inefficiency and move on. He keeps turning up instead.
Willow has handed warmth to two thousand people who never turned it back around. She can't figure out why the enormous, tactless alien who dismantled her whole crusade is the first one to look straight past her smile and ask if she's okay.
Then the door she opened lets something ugly through. The conflict that catches fire along the oldest fault line on the station isn't accidental — and someone off-world is quietly making sure it burns. As her careful sunshine finally cracks, Reig has no soft words. No idea how to fix it.
So he does the only thing a Formorian knows how to do when it matters.
He stays.
Grumpy/sunshine sci-fi romance. Blunt alien hero who falls first. Heroine learning she's allowed to be taken care of. Forced proximity, found family, slow burn. Steamy. Standalone in the Claimed in the Colony series — guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Willow has spent eleven months bringing color to The Colony — one petition, one kindness, one stubborn act of sunshine at a time. It's armor, mostly. She's tired underneath. But nobody's ever looked past the smile long enough to notice.
Reig doesn't do sunshine. The Formorian says exactly what he sees, exactly when he sees it — and what he sees is a woman running the slowest possible version of an easy campaign that never needed to happen. He reads the bylaws no one bothered to read and discovers she's been fighting a rule that doesn't exist.
He thought he'd correct an inefficiency and move on. He keeps turning up instead.
Willow has handed warmth to two thousand people who never turned it back around. She can't figure out why the enormous, tactless alien who dismantled her whole crusade is the first one to look straight past her smile and ask if she's okay.
Then the door she opened lets something ugly through. The conflict that catches fire along the oldest fault line on the station isn't accidental — and someone off-world is quietly making sure it burns. As her careful sunshine finally cracks, Reig has no soft words. No idea how to fix it.
So he does the only thing a Formorian knows how to do when it matters.
He stays.
Grumpy/sunshine sci-fi romance. Blunt alien hero who falls first. Heroine learning she's allowed to be taken care of. Forced proximity, found family, slow burn. Steamy. Standalone in the Claimed in the Colony series — guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance