Small town. Small life. Smaller dreams. I’m content. Happy. It might not make sense to most people but this is the life I chose for myself. If there’s a small part of me that wants to travel and see the world, I’m okay with appeasing that desire with travel magazines and planning future vacations. I want this life and a life full of adventure. I don’t see why I can’t have both. I’m just fine with waiting. But something beyond me has already decided that my contentment with life is about to change. That change came with three new faces. Three new visitors that have suddenly—before I knew what was happening—taken over mine and my family’s lives. They live with us. They eat with us. They sleep and share a bathroom with us. I don’t remember inviting them. I don’t remember consenting to their invasion in our lives. I don’t remember much of anything these days. But they’re here. He’s here. And I don’t think I want them to leave. I don’t want him to leave. At least until I realize why we stopped asking questions. Why we accept their vague explanations and strange mannerisms. Why we can’t shake the headaches. Then I can’t get rid of them fast enough. I can’t get rid of him fast enough. Even if it breaks my heart. This story ends in a cliffhanger. It is the first part in the Kilbus Lord series and takes place before the events of the Galactic Order series.

I once had what I thought were small dreams. Dreams that I was never sure if I would have the chance to pursue. Even so, I had been content. Happy. Or so I thought. All that changed when Killian entered my life. But just as quickly as he lifted me up, he shoved me down so far I didn’t think I would ever have the strength to find myself again. Now those dreams that I had thought so small and possible had been ripped from me. Everything had been ripped from me. Gone was the possibility and contentment. Nothing but pain and destruction lay in its wake. But fate wasn’t done playing with me just yet. It had one more cruel trick up its sleeve. He was looking for me now. Scouring the earth for me. Love and pain dueled together, dragging us kicking and screaming back to one another. I may be hidden now, but once he found me, I knew I wasn’t ever getting away from him again. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to even try. Because my small dreams were growing into something big. Bigger than anything I could have ever imagined. And every single one of them was fueled and held close by the very alien that had crushed them before. \This story is not a standalone romance and is highly recommended that you read the Kilbus Lord series from the beginning.\ \\\Warning. For readers 18 years and older. Contains explicit sexual situations, dark themes, language, and violence.\\\