Bøger af Melisse Aires

Scifi Romance with Love, Passion, Adventure and No Gore!Abducted from Wichita by gross, stinky space worms, three women and a teenager spend months in a cage, their only friend a tiny trunk-nosed alien animal, Velvet.Unexpectedly freed from captivity by a dock accident, the four have to find a way to survive on a busy space dock. They don't know the language, have no one to help them, and don't know how long they can stay in the small spaceship. Slavers might kidnap them at any time. But they know things are always better with a little money.Mimi has the great idea to busk for alien money cubes. They work on a few common Christmas Carols, devise costumes, and head to a large, alien city.Kyre Valryssian accompanies his family to an outdoor restaurant on the resort planet Fera. To their shock, they hear their private family language, English, sung by women in the park! Bridge Officer Kyre must investigate, because Earth is not a planet with interstellar travel.The Far Stars Universe: Lighthearted scifi romance set in a universe of many aliens, reminiscent of a certain bar scene in a popular movie from my youth. Scifi Romance with Love, Passion, Adventure and No Gore! Cute alien animals, too!

Gema and Kellac are taken from prison to participate in a Survival Game on a wilderness planet. They fight their attraction to each other as the game is broadcast to many planets. The the viewcast ship crashes. Sci-fi romance

THE TROUBLE with TRIFFLZ. Such a fun book to write. I hope readers enjoy my Far Stars Universe Prequel. Hero was in WWII! Plus, a recipe from my Montana childhood. Melisse Wil dreams of seeing the stars. Not building deadlier bombs. A mathematical genius forced to work on bombs, he deserts the German Army. After many years, he finishes his rocket. Wil enters space, his dream. A one-way trip, but he'll be in the stars. He awakes in a hospital room, surrounded by blue-skinned people, tubes everywhere. His cat, her kittens, and his hens-he couldn't leave them behind-are in their cages in the room. All alive. A lovely blue woman with rainbow hair takes his animals. Before she leaves, she gives him her name, Shalar. He and Shalar, the ship's widowed Flora and Fauna Specialist, stumble upon a dastardly plot endangering the ship's leaders and the lives of small alien children. They must work together. *Older couple romance *No gore *A few space lasers *Naughty words*Hot times*Adorable alien children.*Stand alone romance in the Far Stars Universe

A life of lonely luxury. Married as a young girl to Warlord Sirn, Sabralia has her own private suite in the harem, freedom to roam the beach, and a handsome cyborg servant, Qy. She is ignored by the warlord, which is fine by her-she finds him abhorrent. When Sirn orders his harem to 'entertain' his top officers, Sabralia's marriage contract will not protect her from rape. She makes a daring plan to hide in a pavilion on the beach during the feast. Qy comes to her after the feast with reports of violence and weapon fire. The insurrection escalates and Qy sweeps her to safety aboard a luxury space cruiser. He remembers who he was before, Kaistril, a warrior. When her cyborg warrior falls, shut down by a failsafe built into his cyborg appliances, it is up to Sabralia to get them to safety. Her, the woman who has lived in splendid idleness for years! Can she save the cyborg she loves? Immerse yourself in the distant future aboard a spaceship in this sci-fi romance. Follow the romantic journey of Sabralia and her cyborg in Her Cyborg Awakes. Book One in the Diaspora Worlds Sci-fi Romance series.

Skyleen runs the Starwoman's Sanctuary on a busy, commercial space hub, the only refuge for orphans, elderly spacers, and schooling for poor working families. Kyler is not the normal type who seeks sanctuary- he is young, whole, a handsome Puregen- but she offers him a bed for the night. News of an invasion reaches Kyler hours before anyone else, thanks to New Prague tech. The Sanctuary, almost five hundred orphans, elderly, and poor working families, needs to get off the hub to safety. Kyler, with the credit account befitting his status as planetary royalty, will rent a ship. It is their only chance. Unfortunately, the crew he hires are human traffickers. Skyleen is taken from the gas filled passenger hold to entertain the pirate crew. Somehow she must get to Kyler. With his help she can save her people. Read Starwoman's Sanctuary, Diaspora Worlds Book Three, Skyleen's and Kyler's surprising journey to love.

Their love bloomed during chaos and danger. Is it real, or just a survival reaction? When their cruiser goes off course and takes them to a remote planet with a history of cyborg processing, pregnant ex-soldier Ursa and Zh Cle' math teacher Rhys are thrown together to survive. Cyborg Harvesters search for survivors, so they hide in the wilderness, taking care of young ones who escaped the crash sites. In all this chaos, Ursa and Rhys acknowledge the passionate attraction between them. Then the Harvesters find them.

Book Three in the Diaspora Worlds SeriesKyler, Heir to the Protectorate of New Prague, manages to rescue his brother and Sabralia but is stranded on a spacestation. He hides from Gorvas hunters by taking shelter in a Starwoman's Sanctuary with the forgotten poor. Starwoman Skyleen is unlike any woman he has ever known, and he finds he wants to stick around for a bit. He has responsibilities back home on New Prague, though. Then he receives and advanced warning that an invasion is coming. Skyleen suspected the man was trouble. Too young, too healthy and far too attractive. He did not belong in a Sanctuary. But they had the room, and she was interested in learning more about him, if there was time in her busy day. Then he tells her of the invasion. She needs to get five hundred vulnerable people off the spacestation. Kyler, with unlimited credit, is willing to hire a ship.It looks like she will get to know him better.

Blackmailed by forced drug addiction to infiltrate the New Prague royal family, Brielle enters a society marriage hoping for the best. The marriage seems like a good plan to Karvar until he learns his lovely bride Brielle is a long term addict to a designer drug. She is in a health crisis. In deadly danger, the newlyweds hide on the wild, uninhabited southern continent of New Prague. They are found and flee for their lives into the deadly alien jungle. They must depend on each other. Will this make or break their fragile marriage?

When Gema was released from prison to participate in a broadcast survival game, she knew she was the underdog and could die. Not a Puregen, a lame leg and no wilderness skills held her back. Still, she had a glimmer of hope for a future free from prison. This planet was beautiful, and so was her Puregen competitor. Kellac was kind, too. But there was definitely no future with him. He came from the highest tier of society, and she came from the lowest. She would enjoy his presence for now. Too bad they were always surrounded by flying cameras.

Adventures to Love- In Space!Plus a Bonus Short Story. Her Cyborg Awakes: A harem wife and her cyborg servant escape her warlord's secret planet during a violent coup. Her servant turns into a warrior and then shuts down. Who will save them now? Kaistril, (cyborg QY) and Sabralia.Alien Blood: The son of the planetary ruler of New Prague and a homeless lame woman compete in a broadcast survival contest on a soon-to-be colonized wilderness planet. Then the invasion happens, and survival is no longer a game. Kellac and Gema.Starwoman's Sanctuary: Heir to a planetary ruler and a charity worker running a space station sanctuary escape an invasion with a ship of orphans, elderly and vulnerable people. The ship's crew turn out to be pirates and slavers. Kyler and Skyleen. Escaping Poison: His civilized marriage is a fraud, and someone powerful wants to kill his ailing bride. The scientist and his society bride hide in an old science station in the wild, alien jungle of New Prague--but someone finds them. Karvar and Brielle Cyborg Security: Widow Aerria could end up in galactic prison due to her precocious daughter's action on a non-contact world. Family friend and former cyborg Domingo uses his position as Security Officer on their ship to help her out. They can't return the abused alien child her small daughter absconded with, so they hide as a family on a bustling independent planet with a rowdy reputation. Short story.

Morwenna, a widow with an infant son, agrees to hide and nurse a poisoned Orc as a service to the Queen. The Orc was human as a boy, turned by a bite into an Orc Warrior. For her help, the Queen will give her an estate in the North, not far from Morwenna's childhood home. As she gets to know Sherrow, she realizes he is a good man, not a monster. Sherrow heals enough to journey north before winter weather keeps them from traveling. The caravan they join is in the hands of rebels, and they must get away. Sherrow has secrets - He is not as weak as he pretends, he has Orc magic, and he is in love with Morwenna.

Adler, a griffintaur, with the wings and feet of a griffin, is a student wizard. His father demands he find a bride at the country's spring Bridal Faire. This comes as a surprise to Adler who still has a year of school left. He dutifully makes his way to the Faire. He is terrible at wife wooing. The only girl he can talk to is Ayperi, a fruit seller from a distant land. He sees her hag-like employer beating her. Why not ask her to be his wife? Ayperi fears her owner and son have wicked plans for her. They reek of dark magic. But she barely understands the language and doesn't even own shoes. When Adler, an intriguing customer with golden wings, rescues her from a beating and asks her to marry him, she jumps at the chance to get away from evil Changa and her son. Surely marriage to this stranger will be a better life?

When Svana takes a position as a supply clerk with the Adra Starforce Academy, she didn't expect to go into space on a vessel. A space battle formed, and her ship was for student observers. They didn't expect to be hit by plasma beams and flung through an anomaly into deep space. Rescued from sure death in the void, Svana finds herself a refugee for the second time in her life. But the lovely, friendly, remote waterworld of Urloon is nothing like the crowded industrial world she fled to as a young woman, with her one surviving child. Highly decorated Captain Liam Rangell became her friend during the long days lost in space, the only adult survivors on a ship of frightened students. He has decided on an adaption offered by Urloon, to gain gills,fins and other adaptions. Svana chose the other option, a farming co-op on land, hoping to return to her grown daughter someday. Their time of daily companionship is coming to an end. The spring Moonfest, a fertility celebration fueled by the pheromones of the chandolay, an alien water animal, seems too alien for her. Something for young people. But she would like to see the conjunction of moons, the aurora lights, and the chandolay dance. Her new friend Elaine, urges her to come to the Moonfest. "The Urloon have a saying. 'Some mistakes are too precious to miss.'"This is an lengthened version of the original novelette. Same romance!This romance contains alien water beasts, a ship lost in space, a fertility festival, aurora lights, conjunction of moons, and a weary older couple from completely different tiers of society desiring a new life. This is an adult romance.

Interstellar bride Nell and her three children are forced to enter space-sleep capsules in the hope of surviving a calamity. She wakes over seven hundred years later on a ship of cyborg warriors. In this strange environment, Nell can't imagine what their future will hold, but she is determined to keep her promise and make Christmas for her children. Even surrounded by cyborgs who know nothing of family, children, or Christmas. Captain Argent, like all the newly freed members of the Cyborg Nation, longs for a family and a human life. There are few cyborg females, they will need to find human wives. Nell planned to marry an unknown colonist, maybe she would marry him.

Far Stars Universe, Book 2Alien Abductee Hayley from Duluth cleans machinery and is learning to bake with alien supplies in an alien kitchen, to repay the kindness of strangers. A warehouse repair shop on the crowded spacestation Grzbt is a great place to hide from slavers, especially with others helping her. Women from a primitive planet like Earth are hot commodities on the space slave market. She has much to be thankful for, especially those thrilling kisses with handsome Soran in the Star Pepper Garden. But is there a future for them in this strange, dangerous world? This story takes place during Stranded on Grzbt, in the Pets in Space 6 anthology.

Traded to a warlord's harem as a teen, Sabralia decides to hide on the beach rather than 'entertain' her warlord's officers. When the debauchery turns into a violent coup, her docile cyborg servant turns into a warrior and steals a spaceship. He has reverted to the man he once was, and is unlike any man she's ever met. Then a failsafe shuts him down, and she must figure out how to save both of them. Read the sexy scifi romance of Sabralia and her cyborg! Book One of the Diaspora Worlds Series.

Scifi Romance with Love, Passion, Adventure and No Gore!Formerly in the Pets in Space 6 anthology.Abducted from Wichita by gross, stinky space worms, three women and a teenager spend months in a cage, their only friend a tiny trunk-nosed alien animal, Velvet. Unexpectedly freed from captivity by a dock accident, the four have to find a way to survive on a busy space dock. They don't know the language, have no one to help them, and don't know how long they can stay in the small spaceship. Slavers might kidnap them at any time. But they know things are always better with a little money. Mimi has the great idea to busk for alien money cubes. They work on a few common Christmas Carols, devise costumes, and head to a large, alien city. Kyre Valryssian accompanies his family to an outdoor restaurant on the resort planet Fera. To their shock, they hear their private family language, English, sung by women in the park! Bridge Officer Kyre must investigate, because Earth is not a planet with interstellar travel. The Far Stars Universe:Lighthearted scifi romance set in a universe of many aliens, reminiscent of a certain bar scene in a popular movie from my youth. Scifi Romance with Love, Passion, Adventure and No Gore! Cute alien animals, too!

A romance of second chances~ Dahr, Lord of the ancient and wealthy family Lhirandal, once rulers of planet Lumina, is dying too soon. He was poisoned a decade ago and has few days left. His once strong family is in tatters. Then Dahr has a vision. Or was it a visit from a long-gone ancestor?Welcome the outcasts back to the family. The Pardbloods, with their feline characteristics, will give the family a future. The ancestor shows him a secret lab, and an ancient nano-formula that will save him. It turns out to be real.He must save the family. Prenna's life goes by in a confusing blur. She struggles to raise her son and nephew, and appease her angry husband. She knows she is failing them all. Then one night a strange mist reclaims her mind, and her hidden Pard characteristics appear, as do the boys'. But her husband dies in the same mist. She learns her nephew is the Heir to the most powerful family on Lumina. Soon Dahr brings Prenna and her children into his world of luxury, power, and high technology as he rebuilds his family.