Ka'atari Warriors
Dive into a galaxy where fierce alien warriors meet their matches in strong, spirited heroines. Each tale is packed with action, humor, and heart—plus an adorable space pet.
Go to space, they said. It’ll be an adventure, they said. They had no idea.
Cora’s boring job as a lab tech on board the space station Shangris is interrupted when two ships fall out of hyperspace and put Earth smack in the middle of an intergalactic war. She’s not sure which side she should be on, but the built-like-a-brick-house blue warrior who rescues her from the crumbling station could be more evil than Hannibal Lecter and she might not care. Especially if he’s in to eating people. But not in the creepy way.
The Talia’s captain ordered Kiran and his team to search the damaged station for survivors, and kill any Scozid he might find. The squid-like humanoids were known for using more primitive races for barbaric experiments. The Talia was tailing this particular ship when they jumped blindly into an unknown sector of the galaxy. With Ka’atari mates being as rare as a three-headed givuthde, he never dreamed his would be one of the survivors.
Things get even more complicated when another hyperspace jump, an unruly alien pet, and politicians get involved.
Hunka hunka blue alien love, action packed, steamy sci-fi romance fun!
This novella is the first in the Ka’atari Warriors series and has a guaranteed happily ever after and no cliff hangers.
She expected a boring post babysitting scientists. She got an intergalactic war and a one-way trip to a distant universe.
Space marine Anela was shuffled off to the U.N. station Shangris after accidentally punching a superior officer during a bar fight. They thought they were punishing her, relegating her to a career languishing under monotonous patrols and tedious paperwork. Boy, were they wrong. Three days after landing on the station, two warring alien ships dropped out of nowhere, plowing a path of destruction that included the Shangris and leaving the few survivors far from Earth with no way to get home. Never one to sit idle during a fight, Anela was more than willing to join the war effort against some slimy alien bad guys in her new universe. She thought she was done with curve balls—and then fate sent her Brak. A distraction wrapped in a blue skinned hunk and tied with a bow of fabulous skills.
As a Ka’atari warrior, Brak was no stranger to risking his life for the Alliance. He’d been at war his entire adult life and was a seasoned soldier. So he never expected to get caught during a mission aboard an enemy ship, and he certainly never expected his rescue to be in the form of the small human he’d helped rescue a few months before. He knew human women had a higher chance of being a genetic match for Ka’atari, and therefore a higher chance of bearing a warrior’s child, but when he didn’t rhun with a survivor, he threw himself into the effort to find a way to Earth. Then Anela found him, broken in a million ways, and as she put him back together, he wondered if he needed a genetic mate to be happy.
The Alliance and the other survivors are counting on them to find a way to Earth, fate seems to conspire against them (or is it bringing them together?), and an alien pet shows up just in time to throw a wrench into the whole plan.
She was on the fast track to political stardom. Then warring aliens left her carefully nurtured plans for the future in shreds and stranded her with no way home.
Zoranna’s life was lined up perfectly and she knew it would play out exactly as she’d planned. She had scored the job as the Under-Secretary-General’s assistant which opened several doors. She’d cultivated relationships with political power players and cut her teeth with local politics. She was poised to become the next household name. Then the aliens came and shoved her dominoes to the floor. She was resilient and recovered, finding a position in the office of the Ka’atari Chief. Being stranded across the universe was a setback, but one she would overcome. Then her boss sends her on a mission that rocks her plans again, and she has to decide if redefining her vision of the future is worth the love of a criminal.
When Droscal met Anela and learned humans were more apt to rhun with Ka’atari, he dreamed of a mate and family for the first time. He decided to do whatever it took to be introduced to the few remaining single ladies. When the Ka’atari Chief called with a mission only he could complete, he knew exactly the price. As soon as he spotted Zoranna holding court over some of the worst criminals in the galaxy, he was hers to command. As rhun swelled between them, he thought his fate was sealed. But she has other plans, and despises those who break the law. Can he convince her he can be reformed?
They told her she had a smile for everyone. A gift for lifting everyone’s mood. Now she wants to tear into anyone who looks at her sideways.
Emily fled to space to escape parents who’d become insufferable when her grandmother left her the considerable family fortune. On board the space station Shangris she thrived. Her upbeat, friendly nature shone and she could brighten any crew member’s day. It didn’t matter (much) that none of them truly knew her, or sought her out for friendship. Then the station disintegrated around her, leaving her confused and in a coma for six months. She woke up in alien space, her emotions loud and swinging like a pendulum from anger to sadness, staying far away from the joy she used to feel. The only one she can’t stay mad at is an emotionless cyborg.
Turo never thought he’d be gifted with a rhun mate, but when he saw Emily’s broken body on the floor of the crumbling space station, he knew he was hers. He spent six months watching over her, gathering every bit of information he could from the other survivors. When the med pod releases her, it’s not the sweet, happy female he’s been described. She comes out spitting fire and demanding an equal level of emotion from him. His unusual nanites are no help, and he’s left wondering if his lack of emotion will cause him to lose her forever.
Complicating their situation are a space pet, a sabotage plot, and a trip across space with no guaranteed return ticket.
They brought her in to examine the alien animals. Being mated to the Ka’atari Warrior Chief wasn’t in her contract.
Xenobiologist Juniper Baldwin is facing a career studying bacteria from Mars, but she dreams of complex animals from different planets. When government officials arrive and whisk her away to a secret bunker to study the pets survivors of the space station Shangris brought back from the far reaches of the universe, she happily signs on the dotted line. She knows the beasts are dangerous, but it’s not the creatures who make her want to cower in a corner—it’s the fearsome lot of alien warriors. When the leader tells her they are mates, her legs tell her to run, but her body wants to melt at his touch. Previous boyfriends used her to further their careers, and this warrior wants her to give him a baby. She refuses to be used again. No matter what her traitorous body insists is right.
Sucaen has spent his life searching for his rhun. The one woman who can give him the family he craves. He’s elated to find her on Earth, and terrified something or someone will take her from him before she fulfills his dreams. He never thought he’d be the one to push her away, but his need for a family does more damage than he could ever imagine. He’ll have to use all his Okan strategy and planning to rectify a dreadful error—or lose his rhun forever.
One of the first to find her rhun, one of the first to fall pregnant—and the only human survivor of the Shangris to be left alone.
Xenobiologist Gabriella never expected to study anything more interesting than alien bacteria, but the stars had other plans. Flung across the universe with no way home, she’s compelled to join a huge Azar warrior right off the ship. As her friends fall in love with their mates, she hopes for a bright future. That hope is dashed when her mate seems to prefer anywhere but with her, and then gets himself killed. Very pregnant and very alone, she latches on to the Rucieth who appears next door. Vrik is mysterious, sexy as hell, grumpy, and he wants nothing to do with her. Gabriella is determined to win him over.
Banished to Kadeya by his team leader, Vrik wants nothing more than to wait out his forced time off and get back in the fight. He has neither time nor patience for his bright new neighbor and her bizarre choice of pet. It doesn’t take long to determine the beautiful human quiets the voices in his mind. He needs her—maybe more than he wants to admit.
The Scozid threat grows across the universe, the Ka’atari warriors are scattered, and Gabriella’s pet is far from enamored with Vrik.
She had no intention of leaving the lab. Then she stole a spaceship.
Chemist Razili prefers logic over risk and samples over standoffs, but when the Scozid-neutralizing compound she’s developing keeps falling apart at the molecular level, she makes a desperate choice: travel to a planet deep in Scozid territory and get what she needs herself. She doesn’t plan on taking a copilot. She really doesn’t plan on hijacking a fighter owned by the massive, infuriating Trelxak who won’t stop hovering.
Calyx knew the moment he saw her—Razili is his rhun. His perfect match. But until she falls for him, touching her is off the table. He’d rather go mad than risk her walking away. Now they’re trapped in a tiny ship, heading toward danger, and sharing a bed. He’s trying to stay focused on keeping her safe, keeping his pants on, and getting her brilliant, snarky self to fall in love with him. His nanites are trying to climb her like a tree.
Between malfunctioning ships, alien space bats, and a dangerously romantic field trip to the edge of enemy space, this mission is exactly what happens when a nerd tries to be the main character.
