Previously published in the Big Feels Monster Romance Anthology. Dr. Alaya Monroe came to the dwarf planet TR-47 to study and protect its unique ecosystem. She expected to encounter strange and unfamiliar creatures, but when a 10-meter-tall giant suddenly emerges from the forest floor to whisk her away to be his new pet, she gets far more than she bargained for! Alaya knows she has to escape and return to the human colony as soon as possible. Not just for her sake, but also for his. Fearing that the intolerant locals will come after him with torches and pitchforks when they discover her missing, she makes the giant promise to return her in the morning. There's just one problem: he doesn't want her to leave... ..and she doesn't want to go. VIRIDIOS is a 30,000-word sci-fi romance novella, originally published in the Big Feels Monster Romance Anthology.