Shards of Infinity Series by Alexandra Norton

"I stretched inside my new host, unfurling with each breath she took..."LAYLAI didn't know how frustrating aliens could be until I got stuck with this golden giant on his ranch in the middle of a freak blizzard. The way he towers over me makes my breath hitch and his sharp eyes see right through me. Yet his aloof, condescending attitude towards humans makes me want to just get this job over with and go home.But now, I'm lying injured in his bed.And there's something crawling under my skin... more"I stretched inside my new host, unfurling with each breath she took..."LAYLAI didn't know how frustrating aliens could be until I got stuck with this golden giant on his ranch in the middle of a freak blizzard. The way he towers over me makes my breath hitch and his sharp eyes see right through me. Yet his aloof, condescending attitude towards humans makes me want to just get this job over with and go home.But now, I'm lying injured in his bed.And there's something crawling under my skin.And I can't let myself relax.Because if I do... I'm afraid I'm going to like it.KUTHIL ASH KHARNMy new financial advisor is angry about being made to cancel her "Christmas" ritual, but easily placated with a dead tree and shiny objects. Just as we get down to business, however, she is injured on my watch.Now we're trapped, she's hurt, and I know of only one way to help her.But when I initialize the healing process of molding, I learn first hand how greedy and hungry a human female can be, no matter how hard she tries to fight her base instincts. And now that we've molded... I realize I'm hungry, too.Alien's Host is a spicy science fiction romance featuring alien possession and forced proximity.This story was originally published in the Unwrapping the Alien anthology. It contains a revised ending with three additional chapters. less

"There was new maturity in her dark eyes. New confidence that wavered only briefly. A sudden urge to dismantle it—dismantle her—rose in me. Could she tell?" LAYLAIt's been ten years since Kak came into my life. We had a rough start—sharing your body with a possessive alien who comes to you in passionate lucid dreams is no walk in the park.I tried to fight it at first, but together we've grown into the perfect organism: two souls in one body. Perfectlysynced and molded to each other's needs... more"There was new maturity in her dark eyes. New confidence that wavered only briefly. A sudden urge to dismantle it—dismantle her—rose in me. Could she tell?" LAYLAIt's been ten years since Kak came into my life. We had a rough start—sharing your body with a possessive alien who comes to you in passionate lucid dreams is no walk in the park.I tried to fight it at first, but together we've grown into the perfect organism: two souls in one body. Perfectlysynced and molded to each other's needs. We made it work, and he's mine.I have everything I need now, and after a decade of running my lucrative alien consulting business with Kak by my side, I'm ready to take an early retirement. But those plans are ruined by the unprecedented return of Kuthil Ash Kharn, the alien who implanted a shard of himself inside me—the shard that became Kak. But is it really him? Or has a decade back on his Home world turned him into someone...something... else?There's a new darkness inside Kuthil Ash Kharn that's impossible to ignore, yet I'm drawn to it like a moth to a flame. I want to run the other way and continue my idyllic life with Kak, butI can't. Not yet. Because I just learned that people are dying. And the aliens seem to be involved.Now, I've got one last job to do. And I need Kuthil Ash Kharn's help to do it.Will Kak and I get through this? Or will the inexplicable pull Kuthil Ash Kharn has on me fracture what took us a decade to build?Aliens' Vice: A Sci-Fi Sharing Romance is a full-length steamy alien romance novel that leans dark. less