Decontamination: A Sci-Fi Romance Novelette

by Erica Beale

Passion and love are the most alien thing left in a post-invasion world.

Love is like easy to begin but very hard to stop.--H. L. Mencken Lt. Margaret “Mags” O’Reilly is always ready for a fight. She’s been on the fields of battle against the other-worldly invaders, the O’okara, for most of her adult life. At her side is Pryce, a human-O’okara hybrid bred in a scientist’s lab, who is also her best friend. Quiet companionship is no stranger to them, but when the pair becomes stuck together in the decontamination chamber, secrets between them are exposed. Faced with a truth she’s not ready to face, Mags has to decide if she wants to give in to her newfound hunger, risking the chance of losing the only person she has ever trusted. Or will she face the reality that, as a soldier in an unending war, there is no place or time to give your heart?A steamy Science Fiction novelette set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with death and destruction, yet the light of hope.

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 19, 2020

About the author

Erica Beale writes paranormal romance and romantasy for grown-up readers who like their fantasy messy, magical, sensual, and full of yearning.

Her stories feature complicated supernatural characters, slow-burn romance, found family, dangerous magic, and heroines who don't have to be nineteen, tiny, or destined for a throne to deserve an extraordinary story.

She is the author of The Veils Between Them, the first novel in the Crimson series, set in Crimson, Maryland, where witches, vampires, demons, fae, and other supernatural beings live a little too close to ordinary humans for anyone's comfort.

When she isn't writing, Erica is usually reading romantasy, developing unnecessarily elaborate theories about fictional people, or discovering that one of her own characters has ruined the plot again.

Magic. Mayhem. Burning & yearning.

Visit Erica at https://www.ericabeale.com