Alien Devil's Shadow

One Vinduthi assassin on a mission. One woman alone on a forgotten moon. One war pig named Turnip.

Kallum is a ghost. The assassin no one sees coming, no one hears leave. His team sent him to a backwater moon to find a dead man's secrets. He expected a quick extraction. He didn't expect her.

Anhara hasn't left the farm in three years. Not since she buried the alien warrior who saved her life, taught her to fight, and gave her the only home she's ever had. She has a pulse rifle, a two-hundred-kilo war pig, and no intention of trusting the grey-skinned stranger sitting in her field.

But the enemy is already coming. And the thing she's been guarding? They'll burn the whole moon to take it.

Kallum can't leave without the key. Anhara can't survive the assault alone. So they make a deal. And try not to notice that every accidental touch, every late-night conversation, every hour of forced proximity on an isolated farm is pulling them toward something neither of them planned for.

She doesn't ask why the assassin fixes her broken equipment instead of stealing what he came for. Why he sleeps in his ship for days, just waiting. Why he puts his body between her and every threat before she can blink. Because Kallum isn't running a mission anymore. He's falling for the woman his mentor died protecting. And everyone on his team is going to know it the second he calls in.

Now the siege is coming, and Anhara has to decide: trust the ghost who could vanish any time he wants, or lose everything she's built trying to hold the line alone.

✓ He falls first
✓ Touch-starved hero
✓ Forced proximity
✓ Protector romance
✓Alien claiming bite
✓ Under siege together
✓ Competent heroine
✓ Found family
✓ "Touch her and die"
✓ War pig named Turnip

Slow-burn tension. Explicit heat. A happily ever after that's earned, not given.

Perfect for fans of Zoey Draven's Horde Kings and Victoria Aveline's Clecanian series.

Explicit. Dual first person POV. Vinduthi Stolen Brides, Book 5. Standalone romance, HEA guaranteed. Series arc benefits from reading in order.