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Read Possessed by the Alien King the new #Scifi #Romance by Krista Luna #RLFblog #AlienRomance
An arranged marriage to an alien is the only way to save humanity in Krista Luna’s new science fiction romance, Possessed by the Alien King. But if her alien warrior husband discovers her secret, will her lies doom them all?
Krista, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Possessed by the Alien King.
Possessed by the Alien King by Krista Luna
Genre Science Fiction Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): NC-17
My fated mate is my enemy. Yet nothing will stop me from claiming her.
Deirdre
I made a horrible mistake. Under orders, I created a virus to drive the Varool from humanity’s new planet. It mutated, killing all of the alien women and our men.
Now, the fate of both our species rests on my shoulders—and between my thighs. To ease my guilt and broker peace, I’ll marry one of the fierce alien warriors and bear his children. All while hiding who I really am.
Their brute of a king claims me, his gigantic body inflaming my desire. Storr’s piercing gaze makes me shiver. If he ever finds out the part I played in all of this, crash landing on the planet will be the least of my worries.
Storr
Humans seized the planet I need for my people. As negotiations deteriorated, varoolian women died. I long for retribution. If I ever find the person responsible—
No. I must set aside my fury to secure my people’s future. Survival demands we reproduce with the enemy.
Although I have no plans to be first, a sweet, musky scent ensnares my senses. Deirdre is my fated mate. I must claim her. She is mine.
Yet consummation does not equal trust. As we battle our way across the untamed planet, suspicions mount. All humans are liars, but Deirdre’s lies may end us both.
Possessed by the Alien King is a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a growly alien hero, a smart heroine, and plenty of adventure with a guaranteed HEA.
Why did you write this book?
I am a huge scifi geek going back years. My favorite stories always have really strong ties between the main characters. I love the emotions and connections romance allows you to explore, as well as the joy of fated mates finding their HEA. I think we could all use a little more joy.
I also love writing fun, face-paced stories where the action pushes the characters together as they learn to trust each other. This book has a lot of that since Dierdre and Storr need each other to survive on an untamed alien world. I also love adorable alien pets, so I added one of those too.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Space opera science fiction and urban fantasy, both with and without romance.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
The hard thing here is picking only one! But if I have to, then I’m going to chose Kate Daniels by Illona Andrews to stand in for all the kick-ass heroines I love. My scifi might not have magic, but it always features capable women. [And the sexy alpha men who fall for them.]
What are you working on at the moment?
Possessed by the Alien Warlord. Grol is as grumpy as they come, but he’s met his match in the small but spunky Kira.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
Book Three of the Fated Mates of the Varool, Possessed by the Alien Warlord.
Where to buy Possessed by the Alien King
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K4K41RJ/
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One of my earliest memories is of watching Star Trek and wanting to kiss Mr. Spock. Soon after, I saw the original Star Wars movie and fell in love with the charming scoundrel Han Solo.
I’ve been a scifi geek ever since. While I wait for a hot alien to whisk me away on his spaceship, I write fun and sexy stories full of growly alpha men and smart, capable women. There’s steamy romance, action and adventure, and plenty of HEAs.
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Read the new Sci-Fi Romance Anna’s Bounty by Deysi O’Donal #RLFblog #SciFi #Romance
Anna’s Bounty is Deysi O’Donal’s debut novel. Turns out human DNA is spread all across the universe, but actual humans are believed to be extinct. That is, until I’m randomly picked up by a passing slave ship.
Deysi, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Anna’s Bounty.
Anna’s Bounty by Deysi O’Donal
Genre Sci-Fi Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
As if being abducted by aliens isn’t terrifying enough, now I’m about to be sold to a space brothel. I figure things can’t get much worse, until the ship I’m on is attacked by alien bounty hunters.
Sparks start to fly when I meet Rovos, the gorgeous leader who promises to take me back to Earth. Only, I don’t know where Earth is and the aliens who kidnapped me aren’t talking. Despite our growing attraction, Rovos is determined to keep me at arms length. He knows the danger of his trade. The heartache it brings. So he vows to find me somewhere safe. Even if it guts him to let me go. Even if I beg him to let me stay.
Where to buy Anna’s Bounty
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097KVF52D
Deysi O’Donal Social Media
Deysi is married to her high school sweetheart and the love of her life. Living her happily-ever-after with 3 cats and a neurotic border collie. She has two amazing kids. One is a recent college graduate and the other is a teenager who aspires to live forever in her basement.
She has been penning stories since she could hold a pencil and spends most days working as a vampire and her nights playing with the imaginary friends that live in her head. On the off chance she’s not writing, or stabbing people with needles, she probably has her nose in a book. Something particularly vexing to her co-workers and family.
She enjoys loud music, sunny afternoons, and leisurely trips through social media.
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Help review a #ScienceFictionRomance – Warrior Priest by Kate Hill @KateHillRomance #RLFblog #SciFi #Review
Preconceived notions abound in Kate Hill’s science fiction romance Warrior Priest. Will a warrior priest from a strict religion and a free-spirited priestess from a new age commune find not only common ground, but unconditional love?
Kate, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Warrior Priest.
Warrior Priest by Kate Hill
Genre Science Fiction Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
What happens when a warrior priest from a strict religion meets a free-spirited priestess from a new age commune?
Jade and Selena are as different as two people can be, but to facilitate an alliance between their worlds, they engage in a cultural exchange. With their galaxy in danger from a planet that wants to conquer or destroy all others, they realize the importance of their assignment, but it is difficult for a warrior priest and a nonviolent priestess to understand each other.
Selena is both attracted and appalled by his old school masculinity, and Jade is tempted to break his vow of celibacy until marriage due to his powerful desire for her. Will this unlikely pair not only find common ground, but unconditional love?
Where to Read and Review Warrior Priest
Publisher Kate Hill
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Formats available: PDF, mobi, epub
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Kate Hill is a vegetarian New Englander who started writing many years ago for pleasure. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, watching horror and action movies, working out, and spending time with her family and pets.
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New Release #MMRomance from Kayelle Allen, Complete Set Tales of the Chosen #WriteLGBTQ #SciFi #RLFblog
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Know the Heroine from The Journeyman’s Trial by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai #RLFblog #Steampunk
Victorian engineering prodigy Gillian Smith has found a home, a community and a vocation in Lisabet Sarai’s steam punk erotic romance The Journeyman’s Trial. Desire stimulates creativity in the Toymakers Guild. But what happens when two Guild members fall in love?
Lisabet, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We’re excited to find out more about your heroine, but first, tell us about The Journeyman’s Trial.
The Journeyman’s Trial by Lisabet Sarai
Steampunk erotica/erotic romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): X-rated
Technically brilliant and thoroughly wanton, Gillian Smith has found her vocation: designing innovative erotic devices for the Toymakers Guild. Lust is a lubricant to creativity at Randerley Hall. But what happens when two Toymakers fall in love?
The Guild’s tribe of talented, uninhibited engineers has embraced Gillian as one of their own. Edward Thorne, the perverse genius who founded the Guild, undertakes to train her in the skills she’ll need as a journeyman, from practical mind-reading to transcendental orgasms.
As Gillian labours to impress the charismatic Master, her enigmatic fellow journeyman Rafe both entices and frustrates her. Their passion seems to go beyond mere appetite, but in Randerley’s promiscuous and permissive environment, does love make any sense?
When the Toymakers receive a commission to equip London’s most exclusive brothel with the latest sexual technology, Gillian has the chance to demonstrate her formidable abilities as well as to help Rafe exorcise the demons of his past. She doesn’t realize she’ll be forced to choose between Rafe and her future in the Guild.
Know the Heroine from The Journeyman’s Trial
Here are some fun questions to help us know your heroine.
Describe the kind of clothes she prefers to wear.
Gillian Smith doesn’t spend a huge amount of mental energy on her appearance. While working in the Randerley Hall laboratory, designing and building sex toys, she usually wears an ankle-length, heavy linen lab coat which has lots of pockets and which buttons up the front. When she’s sent to London to meet with potential clients, however, she’ll don more fashionable attire, the fitted bodices and multi-layered skirts and petticoats typical of the Victorian period, often in silk or velvet. She might even wear a hat and veil.
Does she know how to fix things?
Gillian is a highly skilled engineer, the only child of two famous inventors responsible for a range of steam punk technical devices including the piezoelectric pocket watch and the personal gramophone. They educated her at home, fostering her intellectual and technical skills. Thus, she can fix almost anything, whether it’s electrical or mechanical. Her specialty, however, is mathematics and logic.
She tried to do something and it went badly. Tell us about it.
For much of The Journeyman’s Trial, Gillian is trying to create a system to automatically control mechanical devices based on stored instructions – basically, to invent the first programmable computer. She encounters many obstacles, and feels both frustrated and depressed. With a realistic appreciation of her own intelligence and skill, she is accustomed to success in technical matters. Her apparent failure to create an Analytical Engine that works according to her requirements undermines her self-confidence and actually reduces her to tears on one occasion – a most uncharacteristic reaction for her.
What is she like first thing in the morning?
Gillian’s definitely a morning person. She likes to be in the lab by 7:30 or 8:00 AM, especially when she has a deadline. When she wakes, she’s immediately alert, rather than groggy.
She also likes to eat a hearty breakfast, including at least one cup of strong tea without sugar.
How does she handle things when in a “proper” social situation?
The denizens of Randerley Hall – the members of the Toymakers Guild – are not sticklers for propriety. Indeed, one might say that they are rebels, defying the repressive morality of the Victorian era and seeking freedom from the prudish society that surrounds them. Gillian fits right in. She has little patience for social niceties and is often direct to the point of being blunt.
She does know how to behave, however, and can be polite and genteel under the right circumstance – for instance, when she is interacting with the suave, attractive Duke of Anselm.
Powdered wig or natural hair?
Wigs had mostly fallen out of fashion in the Victorian era, aside from individuals who had unnatural hair loss. Gillian has lovely, curly auburn hair which is often somewhat unkempt. She wears it pulled back when she is working, and collected into a loose knot at the top of her head on more formal occasions.
Carriage or horseback?
Rail travel is probably the most common mode of transportation used in The Journeyman’s Trial. Randerley Hall is in Devon, in the vicinity of Tavistock which was a major market town. Frequent trains connected the town to London, and the characters make use of them on a number of occasions.
The book does include several chapters in which Gillian ventures out onto the moors on horseback. She’s not an experienced horsewoman, especially at first, but her fellow journeyman Rafe encourages her and teaches her the rudiments of riding. This is fortunate, since at a later stage in the story, she’s forced to ride out alone to rescue him.
Thanks for helping us get to know your heroine!
Where to buy The Journeyman’s Trial
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MQV4Y86
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-journeymans-trial-lisabet-sarai/1140567579?ean=2940165096259
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Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59740783-the-journeyman-s-trialLisabet Sarai Social Media
Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Read Tracker220 by Jamie Krakover @Rockets2Writing #RLFblog #YASciFi #SciFi #Romance
A girl with access to infinite knowledge runs when her tracking chip glitches in Jamie Krakover’s YA Sci Fi Tracker220. But if she trusts the programming genius who has interest in more than her broken tracker, she’ll be forced to betray the only tech she’s ever known.
Jamie, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Tracker220.
Tracker220 by Jamie Krakover
Genre: YA Sci Fi
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG-13
When everyone has a brain-interfacing tracking chip, one glitch threatens the entire network. Kaya Weiss is that glitch.
Through thoughts and blinks, Kaya can access anyone or anything on the tracker network. But the authorities monitor everything–where Kaya goes, who she talks to, and what she searches. And without the ability to turn it off, Kaya and her family can’t observe a tech-free Shabbat. To fix the glitch, the authorities slice into her skull to reset her tracker, leaving Kaya to question more than the system’s invasion into her faith.
Kaya won’t be a lab rat again.
Evading the authorities requires some serious tech skills the rogue underground Ghosts can offer. But Kaya’s not sure she can trust them–even if their top tech wiz, Bailen, has interest in her running deeper than her bum tracker. Kaya must decide if gaining freedom is worth losing her tracker’s infinite knowledge–because to take down the tracker network, she must betray the only tech she’s ever known.
Where to buy Tracker220
Publisher Snowy Wings Publishing
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Tracker220-Jamie-Krakover-ebook/dp/B08G113GMY
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tracker220-jamie-krakover/1137498413?ean=9781948661911
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Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tracker220
My Local Indie Bookstore (signed copies available) https://mainstreetbooks.indielite.org/book/9781948661911Jamie Krakover Social Media
Growing up with a fascination for space and things that fly, Jamie turned that love into a career as an Aerospace Engineer. Combining her natural enthusiasm for Science Fiction and her love of reading, she now spends a lot of her time writing Middle Grade and Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Through Snowy Wings Publishing, Jamie is the author of Tracker220 (October 2020). She also has two female in STEM short stories published in the Brave New Girls anthologies and two engineering-centered nonfiction pieces that published in Writer’s Digest’s Putting the Science in Fiction.
Jamie lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband, Andrew, their son, and their dog Rogue (after the X-Men, not Star Wars, although she loves both). When she isn’t being a Rocket Scientist by day and a writer by night, she can be found catching up on the latest sci fi TV, books, and movies as well as spending time on Twitter (maybe a little too much time :-P). And no, the rocket science jokes never get old!
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