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The Alien Before Christmas

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A Sci-Fi Alien Romance

Snowed in.
Not gonna lie, it doesn’t look great.
Rescued by an alien.
Not sure how to feel about this? He’s kinda hot, with his massive blue body, his feline eyes and towering horns… okay, scratch that. He’s super hot. But, he’s also an alien. So there’s that.
And he’s Santa.
Wait what?

EMMA
Chasing a lead got me snowed in, hundreds of miles away from home in my beat-up old car. I close my eyes for a brief second to ward off the cold, and I awake to find myself in a luxurious cabin, cared for by a gorgeous alien male.

He sternly forbids me from leaving my room. What else can I do but disobey?

What I discover shocks me to my very core. A workshop. Reindeer. Flipping elves.

The broad-chested alien hunk is no-one other than Santa himself.

And now that I know his secret… he’s never letting me go.

NIKOLAX
Interfering with humanity is strictly forbidden by the Council.

I break that rule once a year on the 25th of December. I try to spread a little joy, and bring a smile to the faces of those who need it the most.

And then I find Emma, cold and alone, and I break every rule there is.

For she is the one, my mate, my everything. I can feel it in my horns.

There's only one problem... if the Council knows she's at my workshop, they will hunt us down to the edge of the galaxy. Can I keep her my secret? And is true love worth risking the wrath of the galaxy's most dangerous entity?

THE ALIEN BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a standalone story, HEA guaranteed! Enjoy!

131 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2019

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Profile Image for Fey Flowers (enbytweenthepages).
292 reviews66 followers
December 22, 2023
DNF 38%
I should have stopped much earlier.
Tons of "member" and "spear" topped with "little girl" 🤐
I'm sorry but I got goosebumps from embarrassment 🫠
Profile Image for Kayla (onthefritz).
733 reviews121 followers
November 25, 2020
Ho ho ho, what do we have here? 😉

I didn't hate it!

Santa as a sexy alien, hot sex scenes with Dom/Sub play, and then ends with some Hallmark / spirit of Christmas moments.

10/10 recommended for a 2020 holiday season.
Profile Image for Alaina.
7,367 reviews203 followers
December 13, 2021
The Alien Before Christmas was a very quick book. Honestly, after knowing one another for a nanosecond (or two) they were already doing dirty things to one another. Talk about lust at first sight people.

In it, you will meet Emma and Nikolax. She is looking for her next big break and he ends up saving the little human from nearly dying. So, he takes her back to his workshop, and she ends up disobeying the number one rule. Oops? Now she can never leave but I don't think she's that upset about it either.

They have already been intimate. Quite a few times. So, it's not like she's having trouble volunteering as tribute for this one guys. Especially since he's the big blue alien Santa. Which means he's packing in some areas and she's okay with it.

Skipping the dating scene, they develop feelings and claim each other pretty early on. But wait, we have to save Christmas folks! Honestly, I will not ruin the plan that someone came up with, but I didn't think it was going to freaking work.

In the end, it was a cute and quick read that definitely got me into the Holiday spirit!
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2,533 reviews309 followers
December 8, 2021
What an adorable but quick as hell read this was. Absolutely perfect for a lazy afternoon holiday read with some cocoa ;) The fun starts as Emma heads up north looking for her big break. She's in desperate need of funds and after losing her job. She's convinced she can make it via social media if only she can catch something on film. Of course Emma goes quite a bit further north than most other humans do or should and so she unknowingly places herself right in Nikolax's path. He just so happens to be a blue alien whose taken on the role of Santa. Considering Emma wakes up naked with Nikolax feeling her up it's easy to say this is a quick romance and Emma is all for it. Finding herself in Santa's clutches doesn't really freak her out much and she takes it all in stride. The hard decisions come when she must decide to return home to her family or stay and become Mrs. Claus. I wish certain parts were extended a bit but overall this was just what I wanted and certainly delivered on a too sweet sci fi holiday read.
Profile Image for Gale.
1,970 reviews22 followers
December 12, 2019
Fun, smexy, totally hawt (!) Christmas story starring a blue-skinned Santa angel (that’s REALLY tall!), adorable elves, a Scrooge-like bad guy, and a damsel in distress. Seriously, it was a quick read, totally fun, and a sexy holiday rescue story – with three different meanings that are in the story – that has true family spirit in honor of the holidays. And it works because the aliens are, after all, not familiar with our human holiday anyway so sit back and enjoy. True Luna Hunter style where you finish the story, fan yourself and say, “Whew!!”
Profile Image for Nicole.
1,597 reviews165 followers
November 25, 2020
Hear me out!! This wasn't bad! I've read worse "cough" kissing the coronavirus "cough". I had a great time buddy reading this with Kayla @onthefritz
Profile Image for Emily Pennington.
20.7k reviews362 followers
December 16, 2019
Emma lost her job with “HushGurl” when she had to take too many days off taking her sick little sister to the hospital. So now she drove far North to capture some Russian spy photos of whatever people have been seeing flying around up there, then she’ll write the story and get hired back! But her car is old, running out of gas, and sputtering with the bitter cold weather. It breaks down, and Emma has no cell phone service and a dying battery. With no other option, she grabs the teddy bear, Mister Snuggles, that her little sister Anna insisted she take on her trip, cuddles in the front seat and takes a nap.

Nikolax riding above in his sleigh, testing the elf Sugarplum’s maintenance work on the sleigh, sees a car where one should not be and he lands to check it out. Finding the human with blue lips, he and Sugarplum know they need to rescue her or she will die. But if she finds out the secret of who he is, she will never be allowed to leave. And, in fact, they will both be in major trouble from the Council for breaking this rule and bringing her here! But his touch starts to heal her as he carries her unconscious body to his sleigh.

Emma wakes up in a warm bath that smells like cinnamon, reminding her of baking cookies with her mom and little sister. Someone sits behind her, supporting her, and his hands smooth over her skin. Everywhere he touches becomes warm. Figuring she is dreaming, she turns her head and sees an incredibly tall stranger with catlike eyes, blue skin, long white hair and a full white beard with two small horns on the top of his head. She asks if she is dead and he reassures her he got to her in time. She feels safe with this obviously-not-human man. But when the Council member shows up for an inspection, this could be the end of all the good things he has done and lots of trouble to deal with!

This is definitely not one of the stories to read to the kids! But it’s a cute twist to the Santa story that has love and humor in abundance as the blue alien finds his mate.
Profile Image for JodyL.
1,644 reviews5 followers
December 15, 2019
Big blue alien Santa

This book is intensely dirty, and contains spankings for disobedience.
Emma is searching for a way to earn money in order to help her family because her little sister has cancer. She is a blogger and she is hoping that rumors of something in the sky in Greenland is a Russian Spy plane. What she finds is not even close.
Nicolax id an alien and has been stationed on earth for over 200 years. He is not supposed to interfere with earth's population. But when he finds a stranded woman literally freezing to death, he saves her. Now he can't never let her go for two reasons, because she.has seen that he is "Santa" and she is his mate.
Soon someone, from the council that placed him there, is coming to do an inspection . If they find out what he is doing and that a human is at his worshop he will be executed.
I love the story but an editor is needed badly. Lots of typos, missed words, words in the wrong order, double words, etc. If this doesn't bother you than definitely read it. But if that is an annoying trait in a book in your opinion, then give this one a pass.
Profile Image for Karen Nastasio.
2,661 reviews19 followers
December 21, 2019
Not a bad little Christmas story about two different people falling in love and trying to keep each other safe. Emma has lost her job for helping her sick sister that’s got cancer and now needs to find an amazing story to get her job back. So she embarks on a trip up north to discover what’s going on with the rumours that there is something flying around up there but on her way her car breaks down and she is stranded in the snow and freezing cold and passes out. But when Emma wakes up she in the arms of a blue alien that is so hot that he warms her body and soul at his very touch. Nikolax has a big secret that cannot get out ever so he must keep this human female and never let her go, oh and she is his mate and he is Santa the real deal. This is a cute little story that breaks the rules and steals your heart.
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5,018 reviews154 followers
January 19, 2024
nicholax Santa

This holiday season one feisty reporter is determined to find out about the lights in the sky. Emma drives too far and finds a lot more than she was looking for. She was cold alone scared and lost. She had her family to think about and this year she was not going to see them. She really missed she flutter sister. Her sick little sister.

Nicholax was not your ordinary Santa. He was an alien sent to earth as a punishment. He was not suppose to interact with the inhabitants. He had been on the planet long enough to see that there were some that needed a little more help on this special day of the year.

This was not all happy love sex and gifts. There was a good chance that this year Nicholax would be terminated. And that meant Emma would be terminated also. What they need this year is a special miracle . I enjoyed this one. For me I wanted more.
789 reviews6 followers
December 14, 2023
The Alien Before Chriistmas

One reporter heads north to find the aliens whose spacecraft have been sighted but nearly freezes to death when her old clunker died in a blizzard. She is saved by a huge hunky blue alien who has been making and delivering presents for hundreds of years to the poor and needy at Christmas though he's forbidden from doing so by the higher powers. Of course, she and he heat up the nights before the big event and an intergalactic inspector nearly shuts down Christmas, but love wins in the end
Profile Image for Megan Romero.
27 reviews
December 24, 2024
DNF 57%

Honestly this just got really, really boring. Emma is a dumbass character. And even though this is funny, it’s not enough to make up for the nonsense in this story.

And also, by the description I was under the impression Nikolax was going to be… nicer?
Like, he breaks the rules of his people and risks his life just to spread joy and cheer on Christmas, but with Emma he’s just… an uber obsessive taunting dom who’s into bdsm… Like I was under the impression this was going to be cute and fun, and not just spanking and punishment
Profile Image for Hsu Lee.
1,743 reviews9 followers
December 16, 2019
I voluntarily offered to review this book with no obligations and my opinions are honest!
This was a great book !
Emma's car breaks down on the side of the road.
She is cold, miserable, and alone.
What is Emma to do?
Not to worry!
Nikolax is coming to her rescue.
Now, if he only could come clear and tel her that she is his mate + that he is an alien.
Easy, right ?
Loved the characters + the storytelling !
It has all the ingredients that you need for a great book.
Profile Image for Barbara.
19.2k reviews8 followers
December 30, 2019
A well written Christmas story that had me laughing as I read. Emma and Nikolax's story of an Alien that has been banned to Earth by the council especially Kreatos. Emma gets herself in trouble and almost dies, but Nikolax saves her but that could get them killed as he is to have no contact with humans. He is also Santa Claus and that is another no-no. When Kreatos comes for an unexpected visit, all kinds of things happen. A must read story.
Profile Image for BobaFett114.
1,954 reviews3 followers
December 19, 2019
Alien Santa!!!

This was a cute story! Emma needs to prove aliens exist so she can make some money and he her sick sister. Her car breaks down and she is stuck in the cold. Alien Santa, who happens to be blue, comes along and saves her. The story is really good, but it needs some serious editing. Lots and lots of typos, that's why I could only give it 4 stars.
324 reviews3 followers
December 14, 2019
Fantastic read

I absolutely enjoyed this wonderful story. The characters are wonderful and they have instant chemistry from the very beginning. This story sucks you in from the start and I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. This is a must read!!!
1,530 reviews1 follower
December 27, 2019
Aliens and Christmas

I enjoyed this short Christmas story. I thought there were a couple of holes in the plot, and there is a lot of sex relative to the story, but the characters were fun, and the premise was cute! I especially loved how they won over the bad guy!
Profile Image for LiLu.
4,431 reviews1 follower
December 25, 2020
‘Blue Christmas’ ~

What a fun holiday read. Yes, ‘Blue Christmas’ is an Elvis song, but it just seemed to fit this story so well. It had a wee bit of drama, but not overburdened with it, after all its Christmas! What better present than to find your soul mate. Just makes me smile!
Profile Image for Karol Tijerino.
6 reviews
January 2, 2022
I really liked the book, it's good to hang out. Although if I would have liked the dna exchange adaptation process to be there, also if Emma's mom found out that Niko is an alien.

Other than that, the book was very good. I recommend it.
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Profile Image for Amy.
314 reviews
December 28, 2019
If you are looking for a cute short read, then look no further. I enjoyed this different take on Santa. It is always refreshing to read something new. Add all the feels and you can't go wrong!
Profile Image for LuDena .
2,415 reviews4 followers
December 30, 2019
Santa

This book is cute sassy and sexy. Santa is a hot blue dude and his mate an ordinary earth girl. The heat sizzles and panties melt .
Profile Image for Sylvie Connor.
80 reviews6 followers
March 25, 2020
Sinceramente, me esperaba algo mucho peor. Me he reído bastante, pero el libro no puede dar más de sí.
Profile Image for Madeline Sonja Hernandez.
430 reviews
October 25, 2020
A Lovey Short Story

This turned out to be a really nice short story really cute not even two hundred pages still was very nice😊
Profile Image for Daniela.
49 reviews
February 23, 2024
Tengo que admitir que leer este libro fue como un placer culposo, porque quien diria que santa actuaria así?.
2,295 reviews5 followers
November 19, 2025
Did not finish.

I stopped at 23 percent. I like Emma , but I do not like Nikolax. He is too arrogant , and I do not like how he was treating Emma.
Profile Image for La'Jacinth.
1,921 reviews
December 27, 2025
A Blue Christmas

This was a quirky, cute, short retelling of the Night before Christmas with a little Scrooged thrown in through his rival.

Nice!!!


Profile Image for Ella Litten.
7 reviews
January 6, 2020
~MINOR SPOILERS~
It had been a couple years since I read an alien romance, but I was interested in re-exploring the genre which lead me to this book. My place of work has me in a pro-reading supervising position, so I began reading this book at 5:30am one morning. The description of the book was accurate, but it did not reveal exactly what I would be getting into that morning. I begin reading and prior to this book I had been reading sexy, but sweet(emphasis on sweet) shifter novels. I think these books I had been previously reading made me forget how other books can do romance. So picture me, who is quite sleepy, starting this book. A few chapters in my eyes widen as I am presented with straight up kinky dominant sex. He saves her by feeling up her naked body? He only allows her to wear scandalous underwear and he humiliates her in front of his elves? Don't get me wrong, it was really hot and I enjoyed it, but I guess the book just surprised me. I did like the story though and the story did progress to the point where they were in love which is always a plus. It was festive, fun, and ~interesting~ enough to keep me awake during my shift. Would recommend to anyone looking to get in to alien romance, especially during the holiday season.
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