STRETCHED BY THE ALIEN WARRIOR

Xenobiologist Mara Voss has spent three years cataloguing the anomalies of a debris field everyone else calls dead space. She's never believed the mystery was actually empty — she just didn't expect it to have a heartbeat.

When raiders destroy her research outpost, Mara crash-lands into the one place she's spent years trying to explain: a graveyard of forgotten ships hiding the last survivor of a species the galaxy was told no longer exists. Kael is nine feet of scarred plating, banked fury, and a warrior's control fraying under a biology that has just made an irreversible decision about her — before either of them agreed to it.

The imprint bond doesn't ask permission. It changes what she is, hour by hour, whether she chooses it or not. And the Alliance that hunted Kael's people to "extinction" isn't finished — they want him captured, and now they want her too, as proof of something far more sinister than a rescue gone wrong.

Running is not a strategy. Neither is falling for the alien warrior her body has already claimed as its own — except Mara was never good at doing the safe thing, and Kael has never had anyone choose him for reasons that had nothing to do with what he could survive.

Stretched by the Alien Warrior is a full-length, slow-burn-then-scorching sci-fi paranormal romance about the difference between what you're built for and what you choose — and the warrior who finally gets to matter for more than his use.

⚠️ Contains: a fated-mates bond neither party can fully control, a touch-starved alien warrior, found family, a conspiracy worth burning down, and a heroine who opens strange coffins in the dark and does not regret it.