Monday Morsels: Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind

We're highlighting the authors of Love, Forever, a sampler of first chapters of books written by eleven authors of different genres but each one a romance. This week, say "Hi!" to author Karen Kelley.

Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind
Planet Nerak Series Book 1

by Karen Kelley

“I’m going crazy,” Mala murmured. Jumping to her feet, she strode to the plate glass window overlooking the pristine city surrounding her townhouse.

The planet Nerak, where the light never faded and everything was white. So horribly white—colorless, stark and cold. Just like everything on her planet.

“Would you like a hormone smoothie?” Barton asked over the monitoring system.

She stuck her tongue out. “No, I wouldn’t like a smoothie.”

A small aero unit whizzed past, rattling her window. Everything moved too fast. Instant gratification. Sad? Drink a happy smoothie. Tired? Drink an energy smoothie. Horny? Drink a hormone smoothie. Everything was a quick fix.

“You get this way every year. I’m only suggesting a smoothie because it usually calms you.”

She cocked an eyebrow. “Maybe because it has a sedative in it?”

“We could copulate.” A door that blended with the wall whisked silently open.

She turned as Barton stepped inside the room. He was like no other. Six feet three inches of rugged, sexy male. Blond hair, blue eyes...she should be happy. She should. Shouldn’t she?

Then why was she so frustrated!

“It’s been three years, twenty-one days, fourteen hours, twenty-two minutes and nine seconds since you’ve had an orgasm,” he informed her.

And he was driving her crazy. She didn’t want perfection, but Barton was exactly the way she’d ordered him. A gift from her cousin on Mala’s twenty-first birthday. Together they had chosen everything about him. He was their creation.

At the time, her older cousin, Kia, had been going through a rebellious period and had smuggled a catalog of male specimens into Mala’s apartment. Barton was born from a sketch they’d compiled.

But they had taken their creation a step further. They’d practically breathed life into him. At least, as much life as could be breathed into a companion unit. Barton had all the emotions of any Nerakian.

He was the perfect male.

He was still perfect five years later.

Everything about her life was perfect.

She hated it.


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There are no men on Mala’s home planet. Only robots to serve and satisfy, but after viewing her space-traveling grandmother’s documentary about the planet Earth, and seeing Sheriff, the superb male specimen in the documentary, Mala knows she must break the rules of forbidden space travel and see for herself what a real man is like.

Sheriff Mason McKinley has his hands full after the town nutcase reports a UFO crashing near Devil’s Bend. The idiot already has three reporters from a national rag magazine convinced Big Foot is in the area. When he investigates, he doesn’t find little green men, instead he finds a very sexy female stumbling around in the dark.

Staying with Sheriff is the best solution. What wonderful things he has, like chocolate! It’s her duty to explore Sheriff’s planet…and Sheriff. As long as the Elders don’t realize she’s gone, that is.


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