Vak’Nosh never thought his path would end here. A Varrokian sent to Earth on a corporate exchange, he expected challenges strange customs, wary glances, nights spent alone. What he didn’t expect was Diana Richards.

Sharp, ambitious, and rooted in a world he can barely grasp, Diana pulls him in with a warmth he can’t ignore. Around her, Vak’Nosh feels emotions his people rarely admit to, let alone embrace. To Diana, he’s unlike anyone she’s ever met honest, magnetic, and impossible to dismiss. The barriers between them should be too high, yet every day the pull grows stronger.

As attraction deepens into something neither can name, questions rise. Can love exist between two species? Can they carve out a future across divides of culture, biology, and expectation?

Their hearts urge them forward, but the risks are heavy, the consequences life-altering.

Will Vak’Nosh and Diana defy two worlds or lose each other to the gulf between them?

Zihna Kingbird