The damn hot guy next door #MidWeekTease from ALIEN ATTRACTION #scifi #romance

Happy Wednesday! Can you believe it’s September already? Next week, my kids will be back in school, and I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled programming.

And onto my Mid Week Tease post! Mid Week Tease is an author meme started and hosted by author Sandra Bunino, where authors share snippets from their recent releases, back list titles, and works-in-progress (WIPs). So, please check out my tease and visit the other participating authors listed below.

For today’s post, I’m going to share an excerpt from my upcoming release, ALIEN ATTRACTION. This excerpt is where the hero and heroine meet for the first time. The heroine is an alien, the daughter of the hero and heroine from Alien Adoration, and the sister to the hero in Alien Admirer. I am almost finished the last chapter of this story, and I’m planning an October release.

 

Peeking through the peephole, she gasped at who she saw. A guy. And a damn hot one from what she could tell through the tiny hole. Shoulder-length brown hair, a prominent nose, and radiant green eyes. Though his scowl left her wanting to sneak away from the door and pretend she wasn’t at home.

When he raised his fist to knock again, a burst of courage swept through her. The stranger had no right to make her feel trapped in her apartment. Angela yanked the door open before he made contact. “Can I help you?”

He jumped back, his scowl momentarily gone. “You’re Angela Jones?”

“Yes….” How did he know her name when she’d never met him before? Usually it was the other way around. People knew her face, but couldn’t get her name right if their lives depended on it.

The stranger held out a couple of envelopes. “I believe this is your mail. Seems the postal carrier put them in my box instead of yours.”

She reached and took them from him. “Thank you.” Maybe it was a good thing the mail lady kept mixing up her box in the lobby with her neighbors. That was how she’d ended up meeting sweet Mrs. Kersley before the handsome man in front of her. Now, she could get to know him better. “You…. You’re new here, right? Would you like to come in for coffee?”

“No.” He furrowed his brows, looking even more disgusted than he had through the peephole. “See that this mix up doesn’t happen again. I don’t want this to be a daily trip. I have better things to do.”

What an asshole! Like she had any control over where her mail was put. As he turned away, Angela slammed the door behind him. The mail mix up had happened for as long as she had lived there. Mrs. Kersley hadn’t minded bringing it over. Angela would often make extra food and invite her for dinner when she did stop by. She doubted the same would ever happen with Mr. Too Busy. Time to get the computer out and switch everything to e-billing with the hopes of never running into him again.

With a huff, she turned around and headed back to the window. Lights flickered to her left. She spun toward her bedroom where blue and red beams danced across her walls and ceiling. What the hell?

A few cautious steps, and she reached the doorway. Peeking inside, she searched for the source of the luminescence. Inside her closet, the box she’d tucked in the back corner less than an hour ago, lay on its side and the orb in the middle of her floor, lighting up her bedroom like a disco. What had caused it to fall over? And why was it flashing two colors? According to her father and brother, it pulsed with lights of red or blue, not both. Knowing her luck, the orb had little life left, giving one last show before it finally died.

Shaking her head, Angela picked up the extraterrestrial object, not at all surprised it stopped flashing with her touch. Why would it all of a sudden start working for her after so many years anyway? Stupid ball. She tossed it back in the box and used her food to shove it to the far corner of her closet. Time to face the fact she was alone in the big city, with no help from anyone or anything in keeping her ancestry a secret. She simply had to keep everyone at a distance, which wasn’t too difficult lately, and when her work contract expired in a few weeks, she would consider moving elsewhere rather than sign a new offer of employment. Because she had no chance of finding her soul mate here, not when people chose to ignore her rather than invite her to group events. Didn’t seem to matter than she did carry more human DNA than her brother.

~ ALIEN ATTRACTION ~

She wants to be more alien.

He wants to be more human.

Born a galaxy apart, will Angela and Chal have a chance at love, or will their extraterrestrial secrets leave them running to stay alive?

You can find Alien Adoration (book 1) here:

       

You can find Alien Admirer (book 2) here:

       

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