She was wrong. Instead, Meredith Powell was kidnapped, taken aboard an alien spacecraft, and forced to prostitute herself to paying humanoid customers. But she had hope. She would only have to serve for two years, and then she would be returned to Earth.  It was a life she had to learn and adjust to, until one paying customer took a special interest in her. A customer who had other plans for her, and none of them involved returning her to her home planet.

    But that was then. This is now. As a marine biologist, Maris Xayer is used to observing all types of marine life, but she never imagined she’d come face to tail with an Ujal. In the middle of a hurricane, Maris and Vados came together—ahem—and then he disappeared. She figured it was a one-storm stand with an Ujal and moved on. Except Vados hadn’t really gone anywhere and now the sexy as sin, red-skinned Ujal is back. For her. **This is a stand alone 37 page SHORT STORY.**

    What's next, getting abducted by a red-eyed alien snake monster?The Federation came to invite humanity into the fold. The last thing I want to worry about is alien "Keepers" or the humans they want to bring back to their worlds for an "evaluation period". I want to keep my head down, study, and live my normal life in peace.Xioumar, the Keeper put forward by the serpentine species of Xiorn, has plenty of willing human volunteers to go with him. I saw the one they assigned him, fawning over the towering, statuesque alien like a lovesick puppy.So why does it have to be me?He moves like a viper ready to strike, and his touch sends a very unsettling jolt of electric heat down my spine. Are they all like that, or is it just him?Ripped from my home against my will and taken hundreds of thousands of light-years away, I am trapped. And now I have to learn to live with this monster.But I'm not worried. I have a plan.

     But it isn’t totally empty. And Lukas, the cyborg living there in secret, is fascinated with her and has no intention of letting her leave.

    I’m disgusted, but not because he’s licking me, but because I like it.I wait in the darkness. When will Sturmir come for me? What will he do to me?The door creaks open, but it’s not him.It’s something else.This one isn’t just going to lick me, he’s going to—Sturmir grabs him by the hair and crushes his head against the wall. He’s strong. He’s brutal. He’s smiling at me.He leans in close to me. “Do everything I tell you to, little human, and I’ll keep them away from you.”I nod, and my body trembles. His finger runs along my cheek. My lips part.“You like how I smell, don’t you, little human?”I freeze. I can’t get words to come out.I don’t need any words though. I just need to do everything and anything he tells me to.

     After a stint in an alien prison, Captain Ari Rose wonders why she even bothered to survive. Stripped of her command and banished to her father's scientific expedition to finish a Ph.D. she doesn't want, Ari never planned to languish quietly behind a desk. She wasn't built for it, either. But when pirates commandeer her father's ship, Ari once again becomes a prisoner. As far as pirate leader Cullin is concerned, Ari's past imprisonment puts her dead center in Cullin's sights. If she hasn't been brainwashed and returned as a spy, then he's convinced she must be part of a traitorous alliance endangering billions of lives. Cullin can't afford the desire she fires within him and he'll stop at nothing, including destroying her, to uncover the truth.

    So when she arrives in Stargazer with her head full of conspiracies and high-end hairspray, she isn’t entirely surprised to learn that instead of donating eggs for tuition money, she is being asked to make an alien fall in love with her, and become an ambassador for humankind. What she doesn’t expect is how irresistible Bond is, and how hard it will be not to lose her own heart to the man who plays her body like a violin.Bond is on Earth to fill one human female with as much pleasure as she can bear, a mission he’s finding very agreeable. But he’s not here to fall in love. Tasked with using his powers of human seduction to glean what he can about Earth and its inhabitants, Bond knows that if the planet’s resources are worthy and its residents aren’t, his days of pleasing Posey will soon be at an end.

    Astrid Marvelle was always pretty. She just never thought she’d be the obsession of an Alien. Dr. Marvelle is an exobiologist, but her striking beauty seems to be what people remember her for. That’s not her problem, though. Right now, her problem is a deadly virus wiping out entire colonies on planet Titan, and she’s the only one who can save them. When Loren-ko, the powerful Thrakian ambassador, decides he wants to meet a real-live human, Astrid is dragged kicking and screaming away from her life. She finds herself quarantined with Loren-ko when he accidentally exposes them to the virus. She’s quickly overwhelmed by his irresistible physique and powerful confidence. Their time together in isolation awakens her lust for Loren-ko she’d spent years trying to ignore. But can their love survive…and will they be able to bring the vaccine to Titan?

    Witness Protection has organized a new identity and a marriage contract for her on the mining colony of Esther, one of the moons circling Jupiter. The man who meets her there is not the groom she expected.Adam Elliot is neither sweet nor sincere, and he looks like he was hosed off a barroom floor. But soon a memorial service reveals Adam’s soft underbelly. Throw some stellar sex into the mix and the two decide that maybe marriage to each other might not be so bad after all.But an assassin is already at work. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues on the planet’s frozen surface. Louise is determined to live long enough to draw the maniac away from the husband she might just have fallen for.A Romantica® futuristic erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave