Julia is lonely, but there's a strange creature living in the nearby lake that wants her - and her reproductive system - badly enough to do something about that. There, beneath the waters, Julia just might find happiness and contentment with the last alien from Gliase 97 Alpha and his human valet.

Ella was a bored and lonely farm-girl who was plucking weeds in the field, when she came across a strange, wiggling tentacle sticking out of the ground. She touched it, unknowingly awakening a creature underground. The alien was seeded into the Earth thousands of years ago, waiting for just the right thing: A human female.

As the first humans allowed in Suevan space, there’s a lot riding on my all-woman team. Earth desperately needs their tech, and I’m determined to prove we can negotiate the price. Without their planetary defense systems, Earth is a sitting duck, ripe for invasion. Except the Suevan culture is nothing like ours. When I take part in what I think is a welcoming ceremony, I leave with more than I bargained for: a husband. A mate. Apparently, we’re there to marry them as payment—something the top brass on Earth doesn’t bother denying. Fantastic.

Madeleine Bright is a timid veterinary surgeon with a soft spot for sick animals and an ex-boyfriend from hell. When she signs up for a prison dating site out of curiosity, she has no idea just how much her life is about to change. Maddy and Zack's connection is instant and electric, and they soon find themselves taking one another to exciting, shadowy places neither of them have ever explored before.

He was a jerk, but she loved him; that was the first problem. The second? He was her stepbrother. Dante Hix. An alpha male. A billionaire at 21. A god. It had been three years already, and she still wasn't over him. What the hell was she thinking going back again now?