MM Alien Romance · Meridian Lock

Said by Hand

He can recite all forty Kethri hand-forms off a laminated card. Nobody has ever said one to him.

Wes Halbrook carries other people's words for a living. On Meridian Lock, the trade station at the mouth of a wormhole, that makes him the obvious choice to interpret for Tavon: a seven-foot Kethri envoy who politely declines the translation band, because on Kethra anything true is said by hand, on bare skin.

So the lessons begin. Tavon's palm on his wrist. Tavon's throat-light burning brighter every time Wes walks in. Then Tavon tells him, across a canteen table, in the voice he uses for the weather, that he wants him.

Wes hedges. It's what he's good at. Until the night he answers by hand.

But when the Authority names Wes interpreter for the trade hearing, the only honest move is to stand up before the Board and say he's involved with the man whose words he's meant to carry. It will cost him the hearing. It may cost him his posting. And when the round closes, Tavon's posting ends too.

A frank, tender, very hot open-door MM alien romance, with a bond-rite and a guaranteed HEA.

Perfect for fans of Everina Maxwell and Lyn Gala.

Publication: October 2026
Pages: ≈ 137