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TBT: Alien Redemption

She knows what she wants...


Govi says I might join the lottery very soon.  She hesitated, then in a flurry of typing asked, Do you think perhaps your clanmates would consider me?  Would YOU consider me? Conyod read the words, and his smile returned.  Heaven and earth, she loved it when he smiled.
He said, “Nothing would make me happier.  As for Sletran and Erybet…”  He considered.  A shadow passed over his face, and he seemed to struggle with an inward debate.  Finally he added, “I think perhaps they would.  They were very impressed with you.  But Ray-Ray, I am your doctor and this might be frowned upon.  It’s not unheard of for patients to fixate on their therapists because they feel gratitude or a sense of obligation.”
His expression seemed to beg her to negate this idea.  She was more than ready to do just that.  He stepped closer so he could read over her shoulder as she typed, as if he couldn’t wait one second for her answer.
I know my own mind.  I know it very well.  While I am grateful, I do not feel obligation.  I feel—
She stopped typing and looked up into Conyod’s big, beautiful purple eyes.  She dropped the handheld on the nearby table, turned, and wrapped her arms around his neck.  Everything inside went soft and warm as she felt the strength of his body against hers.  Sure, she was fixated, but it was love.  As sure as she was standing here, the front of her body plastered to the front of his, she was in love.  She stood on her tiptoes and moved her lips over his.

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Monday Motivation

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Five clues related to a character from the Kalquor universe. Can you name the character?

1. My jokes are hilarious. Really.

2. Ah, those younger Dramoks and Mataras...who can resist?

3. Kurble is a fine game until I have to clean up the mess afterward.

4. Medicine, psychology, good looks...and did I mention my sense of humor? I'm the whole package.

5. I've been known to show my butt whether I'm in a bad mood or not.

Who am I?

TBT - Alien Interludes: Abduction

The man’s voice was a tight growl.  “You will stop fighting or be hurt very badly, Earther.”
“Fuck you,” Jessica’s voice finally offered a thin hiss of sound.  She yanked again, but her strength was failing once more.  She steeled herself for one last burst of energy, for one last attempt.He carried her outside into the sunshine-drenched loading dock.  Shouts of angry Kalquorians exploded in the air.
“Stop right there!”
“Halt or be shot!”  Bevau’s infuriated roar was the sweetest sound ever.  
Sudden impact knocked the Kalquorian carrying Jessica out from under her, and she spilled onto the stone surface of the dock, her momentum rolling her onto her back.  She finally clearly saw the abductor as he crouched over her.  He indeed wore the red formsuit of the Royal Guards, and his ferocious face was vaguely familiar to her though she didn’t know his name.
One of her sworn protectors had attacked her.  It was a bad sight to see.
The Nobek was showing his fangs to Bevau, who stood only a few feet away.  Her clanmate also snarled around rattlesnake-like fangs, his body tensed for attack.  Jessica wondered why he didn’t let the Guardsman have it for an instant before realizing her would-be kidnapper held a dagger inches from her chest.
The Guardsmen went for his blaster with his other hand.

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Worlds Away Q&A

Q: Fifty books.
A: Hard to believe. I’m exhausted
Q: This is the end of the Warriors of Risnar series?
A: Risnar was always meant to be only four or five books. I think this story closes it out nicely.
Q: What was the best part about writing the Risnar universe?
A: Doing something different from Kalquor. I love Kalquor, but I needed a jolt of something new to write. I felt like I was stagnating because I was concentrating on just that particular universe. It was becoming a grind. I needed to stretch creatively, or the clans would suffer.
Q: Arga showed up in the first book, Not of This World. Why did it take so long to get to give him a starring role in his own story?
A: He wasn’t ready until now. He had some growing to do from where he was in NOTW to be the romance hero. He was ready much earlier to be a warrior hero, but when it came to falling for a special lady, he hadn’t reached that point until the fourth book.
Q: There have been very different women throughout the series. Jeannie was strong but frightened and distrustful. Anneliese was tough as nails but wounded. Velia was self-assured but fighting her past. What is the new heroine like?
A: Loud, fun, and trying to put her past to rest. From her blue-dyed hair to partying to inappropriate jokes, Serena shocks Arga. He’s not one to abstain from sexy time, but he doesn’t want a relationship. She has no intention of remaining on Risnar once she’s done her part to save Earth from the Monsuda.
Q: That changes.
A: Of course it does! They’re fascinated with each other despite the issues that make them fight the attraction.
Q: What’s up next?
A: I’ve begun work on First Mataras: Maryam, which will focus on one of the women abducted to Kalquor around the same timeframe as Alien Embrace and Alien Rule. I don’t anticipate having it done for at least six months. Ongoing obligations and health concerns continue to keep me at a snail’s pace, so everyone needs to remain patient.

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He couldn’t convince his muscles to move, to sweep her up and take control. This tiny terror from Earth had taken every ounce of his strength from him. Even his voice was weak as he protested.
“I have to do something for you now. I have to—I have to—ah, ah, ah!”
His voice rose in a shout. She’d swallowed his cock, engulfing its entirety. For an instant, he thought he’d climax.
Claiming the privilege before hers was too unthinkable, even in his barely-thinking state. Arga stopped the surge of heat from bolting through his shaft by the thinnest of margins, but he managed to hold off.
Selena released him to shake a warning finger at him. “Behave and do what the nice Earthling wants you to do.”
“Which is?” he croaked.
“Which is to stand there and let me have what I want.”
With that, she resumed bobbing her blue-and-white head over him, driving him crazy and turning his will to jelly. When she swallowed him again, he was ready—more or less. He’d expected it to happen again and was able to bolster his resolve to not surrender what desperately wished to be surrendered. Barely.
His groans incited her to thrill him even more, giving him no mercy. Arga no longer noticed the aches and fatigue that had been plaguing him. All he knew was want that grew in fierceness, giving him thoughts he should not have. Thoughts of picking Selena up and pinning her against the wall, of shoving in her pussy, of riding her with demand until he came, shooting deep in her snug warmth. Spilling until he had nothing left to give, until he was as dry and dusty as the desert where they’d blown up fake portal rings.
He shook with the violence of his lust, a craving no other female had incited within him before. No, he wasn’t an animal that rutted mindlessly. He was Risnarish. He was a man. As such, he had a responsibility to the woman ministering to him, no matter how crazed she made him.

She escaped from a cult. Fought in Afghanistan with an Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit. Was discharged from the Army after a court martial. Fired from her latest job. Selena ‘Boom-Boom’ Baumer is no stranger to conflict. However, diving into an interstellar war on a planet she’s never heard of is pushing the limits, even for this rebel. It’s only temporary though, and in the meantime, the striped alien men are easy on the eyes. Helping them defeat a monstrous race of invaders can’t be a bad thing, right?


Arga Bolep, war commander of the planet Risnar, needs an explosives expert, and Selena comes highly recommended. He’s not sure what he’s supposed to do with this blue-haired, naughty-limerick singing, hardcore partier, but he knows one thing’s for sure: he’s not about to fall in love. Not when he’s too aware of how gut-wrenching loss can be. Despite his fascination with Selena, he’ll keep their relationship as professional as her outrageous personality will allow.


When the enemy race of Monsuda launch a surprise attack, threatening both Risnar and Earth, Selena and Arga are forced to depend on each other just to survive. A reckless plan to defeat the enemy could spell doom for the reluctant lovers—but the more impulsive feelings they have for each other try their hearts and souls.




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“I’m sore and exhausted and can barely lift my arms at this point. Even in such a helpless state, I’d do anything for a shower and scrub. Maybe you can help me with the spots that hurt too much for me to reach?”
Her smile was slow and made his groin tighten. “Lead on, big guy. I’m amazing with a loofah.”
“What’s a loofah?”
“Never mind. My hands will do fine.”
He led her into the seamless white enclosure of his lavatory. A corner was filled with the glassed-in shower space. Arga switched it on, adjusting the heat of the spray for unarmored skin. The multiple sprays came from the ceiling and walls, so that every inch of his body benefitted from the delightful pulsing of the water jets.
Selena’s clothes dropped to the floor and she stepped in with Arga. She moaned in a way that brought a surge to Arga’s groin. 
“I thought you were tired, big man,” she teased as his cock formed. She stepped close, rubbing her hands over his chest, wiping the gray film off to display his brown and ivory skin.
“With the exception of that part, I can barely stand.” Regret filled his tone as he smoothed his palms over her back, ribs, breasts and stomach.
“Make yourself into a tripod. No, I don’t want to see anything that big.”
“How big do you prefer it?”
Selena considered, mischief dancing in her gaze. “Don’t go crazy. If it sways in the breeze and bangs against your knees, you’ve gone too far.”
She escaped from a cult. Fought in Afghanistan with an Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit. Was discharged from the Army after a court martial. Fired from her latest job. Selena ‘Boom-Boom’ Baumer is no stranger to conflict. However, diving into an interstellar war on a planet she’s never heard of is pushing the limits, even for this rebel. It’s only temporary though, and in the meantime, the striped alien men are easy on the eyes. Helping them defeat a monstrous race of invaders can’t be a bad thing, right?


Arga Bolep, war commander of the planet Risnar, needs an explosives expert, and Selena comes highly recommended. He’s not sure what he’s supposed to do with this blue-haired, naughty-limerick singing, hardcore partier, but he knows one thing’s for sure: he’s not about to fall in love. Not when he’s too aware of how gut-wrenching loss can be. Despite his fascination with Selena, he’ll keep their relationship as professional as her outrageous personality will allow.


When the enemy race of Monsuda launch a surprise attack, threatening both Risnar and Earth, Selena and Arga are forced to depend on each other just to survive. A reckless plan to defeat the enemy could spell doom for the reluctant lovers—but the more impulsive feelings they have for each other try their hearts and souls.




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No strings attached.He blocked her entrance. “I mean it. We’re going to go to bed and have our fun. That’s it. That’s all I want.”
What did he think she was there for? Redecorating? “What? No marching band? We can’t limbo too? Play a round of poker? What kind of a place are you running here, anyway?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. Whatever it is—no. We’re having sex. It leads to nothing else. I’m not Kren. Or Nex. I’m not getting involved with an Earthling.”
Had he really contemplated such a prospect? Selena tried to focus her fuzzy thoughts. Maybe she’d preyed on his mind this past week as much as he’d preyed on hers. Had she starred in untold numbers of fantasies? And here she’d suspected his distance had meant he was a one-and-done guy. 
He’d considered romance.And dismissed it. Selena pushed away the sudden stab of disappointment. Why should she care if he had no intention to pursue anything beyond physical gratification? She was on Risnar only long enough to help Earth, not set up house on a planet that was probably doomed.
“I’m here for the cock and whatever other appendages you decide to grow.” She shoved up against him, pressing him against the side of the entrance, kissing and touching that magnificent body. Arga pulled her in tight, returning the favor with interest. The sweet-smoky flavor of broadleaf on his breath was a delicious addition.
She escaped from a cult. Fought in Afghanistan with an Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit. Was discharged from the Army after a court martial. Fired from her latest job. Selena ‘Boom-Boom’ Baumer is no stranger to conflict. However, diving into an interstellar war on a planet she’s never heard of is pushing the limits, even for this rebel. It’s only temporary though, and in the meantime, the striped alien men are easy on the eyes. Helping them defeat a monstrous race of invaders can’t be a bad thing, right?


Arga Bolep, war commander of the planet Risnar, needs an explosives expert, and Selena comes highly recommended. He’s not sure what he’s supposed to do with this blue-haired, naughty-limerick singing, hardcore partier, but he knows one thing’s for sure: he’s not about to fall in love. Not when he’s too aware of how gut-wrenching loss can be. Despite his fascination with Selena, he’ll keep their relationship as professional as her outrageous personality will allow.


When the enemy race of Monsuda launch a surprise attack, threatening both Risnar and Earth, Selena and Arga are forced to depend on each other just to survive. A reckless plan to defeat the enemy could spell doom for the reluctant lovers—but the more impulsive feelings they have for each other try their hearts and souls.


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TBT: Not of This World

Head enforcer Kren Bolep and his partner Arga have cornered a creature they’ve never seen before.
 “She can’t be as helpless as she seems,” Kren said. “No creature develops without some sort of natural defenses.”
Arga looked as flummoxed as he felt. “There’s one way to find out.”
“Right.” Kren came to a sudden and probably stupid decision. He grabbed the creature.
As he yanked her against his body, she shrieked. He winced and folded his ears against the piercing sound. Her hands closed in fists and she pounded against the hard hide of his chest. She cried out again, this time in agony. She wrung her hands and tears streamed down her cheeks.
Kren’s shoulders hunched. Damn. He’d hurt her. It had been her fault for hitting him when he was armored, but he still felt bad. Every tear streaking from her extraordinary eyes was a stab to his twin hearts.
He restrained the urge to shake her for being foolhardy. “Damn it. Why did you do that, little girl? Here, let me look.”
He unwrapped his arms from around her body to take her hands in his. He fussed over the delicate digits of her fingers—it seemed she preferred to keep four to a hand along with her thumbs—checking them over to make sure she hadn’t done damage to herself. He rubbed his thumbs over them in turn, frowning to feel hardness beneath the skin. Fingers with bones? Could that be right?
He uttered cooing sounds, as his guardians had done when he was a small boy and had hurt himself. As he tried to soothe her, her sky eyes stared up at his face. She looked terrified, but Kren fancied he saw a trace of hope in her expression too.
He couldn’t get over the softness of her skin. When he’d grabbed her close, her motherly breasts had mashed against his chest, molding her pliable body to the hard, armored planes. The sensation had been unsettling.
Trying to quiet his confusion, he glanced at the watchful Arga. “She’s soft. Fragile. I think I could crush her if I’m not careful. What is she? How can she exist with no defenses?”
Arga’s heavy brow had descended over his eyes, silvery orbs in the dark. “If I had to guess, I’d say she’s a Monsudan experiment. Although their monstrosities are usually nasty. This is—well, she’s cute. Like something you’d take home and tame for a pet.”
Kren looked her over carefully. She peered up at him with those frightened eyes, but at least she’d calmed down. High, delicate cheekbones, tiny pointed chin…a being of astounding beauty for all its alien peculiarities. Kren found it hard to believe that the Monsuda, which shared the planet of Risnar, could make a creature so lovely. Yet Arga was right. It was the only explanation that made any sense. Legends of the terrifying Tysu notwithstanding, there was no such being as this native to Risnar or any of the planets known to its people.
So damned lovely. Knowing what would happen to the creature if it was a result of Monsudan biological engineering tightened Kren’s chest with hurt. There was no help for it, though. The law was the law. Monsudan lab creations were destroyed without prejudice.
With regret, he jerked his head in the direction of the dartwings. “Let’s get her back to the station. Nex can have a look at her first. If he’s got no idea and we’re sure she poses no immediate danger to our people, the biologists at the temple can figure out what she is.”
Arga opened a pouch on his belt, the one article of clothing he wore on his armored hide. He took out a length of flex strapping and unrolled it as Kren spoke in his most soothing voice to the pale animal he held.
“It’s all right. This won’t hurt you. Hold still, little—thing. Little Tysu.”
“She’s not a Tysu. The Tysu supposedly has long fangs and claws,” Arga reminded him. “It eats naughty children who don’t listen to their guardians.”
“I can’t stand calling her a thing, animal, or creature. She’s too pretty.” Kren held the female’s wrists, then made her lower her arms to her sides.
Arga snapped the end of the flex strapping with a practiced flick of his wrist. It whipped out and coiled around the Tysu, pinning her arms in position. It kept winding about her, fastening her legs tight together. She’d already been helpless, but now she could neither resist nor run.
She cried out to find herself bound and began struggling again. Her wails went straight to Kren’s hearts. He hated to see any vulnerable being as scared as this Tysu was.
He imagined Arga found him ridiculous as he hummed calming noises and petted her long hair. Patches of it were silky, like the magnificent nikwen that roamed in herds on the distant plains, but much of it was matted and tangled. Monsudan created or not, she’d been living wild for several days. She needed a good washing and grooming. He wrinkled his nose. Maybe it would help the somewhat unpleasant odor coming from her too.
To Kren’s surprise, Arga joined in the attempt to quiet the Tysu. His partner awkwardly patted her shoulder and said, “Easy. Easy,” in a rough voice. “Don’t cry, little pretty. We’re not going to hurt you.”
Arga tended to put on a tough front, but he treated the Tysu with nervous care. Kren tried to not smile, and succeeded for the most part, but Arga noticed his amusement and shrugged. “Laugh, but I know you feel the same as I do.”
“Like the world’s biggest jerk for scaring her? Yeah. If we could get away with it, I’d set her loose. But if she’s of Monsudan origin—”
“Contain and destroy.”

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She escaped from a cult. Fought in Afghanistan with an Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit. Was discharged from the Army after a court martial. Fired from her latest job. Selena ‘Boom-Boom’ Baumer is no stranger to conflict. However, diving into an interstellar war on a planet she’s never heard of is pushing the limits, even for this rebel. It’s only temporary though, and in the meantime, the striped alien men are easy on the eyes. Helping them defeat a monstrous race of invaders can’t be a bad thing, right?
Arga Bolep, war commander of the planet Risnar, needs an explosives expert, and Selena comes highly recommended. He’s not sure what he’s supposed to do with this blue-haired, naughty-limerick singing, hardcore partier, but he knows one thing’s for sure: he’s not about to fall in love. Not when he’s too aware of how gut-wrenching loss can be. Despite his fascination with Selena, he’ll keep their relationship as professional as her outrageous personality will allow.
When the enemy race of Monsuda launch a surprise attack, threatening both Risnar and Earth, Selena and Arga are forced to depend on each other just to survive. A reckless plan to defeat the enemy could spell doom for the reluctant lovers—but the more impulsive feelings they have for each other try their hearts and souls.
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