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Onyx & Cipher: Echoes of Lumina
She risked everything for first contact, but she never expected the first touch to rewrite her soul.
Dr. Lena Petrova, a brilliant xenolinguist haunted by cosmic loneliness, takes on the initiating dialogue with the Aethel, Aethelgard's elusive shadow-dwelling natives. Trading sterile star charts for glowing crystal labyrinths, she seeks peace for humanity, but secretly craves a connection that transcends the void. In the subterranean city of Lumina, she finds Xylar – leader, guardian, and an enigma carved from onyx and starlight. His distrust is a fortress, his presence an intoxicating gravity she can't escape.
Communication is fraught with peril. Sabotage from her own ranks and ancient Aethel fears threaten to shatter the fragile bridge she builds word by painstaking word. Yet, an impossible resonance arcs between Lena and Xylar, a scorching intimacy that defies logic and species. It promises understanding, union, maybe even salvation… if they dare to trust.
She came to decode a language; she stayed to decipher a soul.
As hidden agendas surface and suspicion spirals towards open conflict, their forbidden alien romance becomes the focal point. Can they forge a bond strong enough to avert disaster, or will the secrets they uncover and the passion they ignite consume both their worlds? Find out if trust can bloom in the shadows before the silence becomes eternal.
Dr. Lena Petrova, a brilliant xenolinguist haunted by cosmic loneliness, takes on the initiating dialogue with the Aethel, Aethelgard's elusive shadow-dwelling natives. Trading sterile star charts for glowing crystal labyrinths, she seeks peace for humanity, but secretly craves a connection that transcends the void. In the subterranean city of Lumina, she finds Xylar – leader, guardian, and an enigma carved from onyx and starlight. His distrust is a fortress, his presence an intoxicating gravity she can't escape.
Communication is fraught with peril. Sabotage from her own ranks and ancient Aethel fears threaten to shatter the fragile bridge she builds word by painstaking word. Yet, an impossible resonance arcs between Lena and Xylar, a scorching intimacy that defies logic and species. It promises understanding, union, maybe even salvation… if they dare to trust.
She came to decode a language; she stayed to decipher a soul.
As hidden agendas surface and suspicion spirals towards open conflict, their forbidden alien romance becomes the focal point. Can they forge a bond strong enough to avert disaster, or will the secrets they uncover and the passion they ignite consume both their worlds? Find out if trust can bloom in the shadows before the silence becomes eternal.
135 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 24, 2025
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