Willow Kepler writes sci-fi romance with bite. Her stories follow capable heroines through alien jungles, deep space expeditions, and submerged worlds where biology is stranger than imagination.
In reality, she is based in Germany, spending most of her time writing or procrastinating going to the gym. With a Master's Degree in Bioengineering, Willow's worlds are (mostly) scientifically correct, and pick up concepts of biotechnology. Expect xenobiology, moral tension, emotional growth, and unapologetically steamy encounters with sometimes unsettling lovers. Every journey ends in a hard-won happy ending.

Crashlanding on a jungle planet mere minutes after the mission started really isn't how botanist Ivy Swanson imagined this to go. Finding a plant-based cure for a deadly virus devouring humanity sounded like a good last fight. But now, alone in the dense green jungle, surrounded by alien plants, she isn't sure anymore. Someone or something is watching while she fights for her survival.
Ka’at has seen humans before. Thirty years ago, they came to destroy his world, and now they are back. He watches the woman who gently caresses his plants' leaves, carefully catalogues them, and wistfully gazes at the jungle. Something about her intrigues him, her sweet scent, her soft body, and her green eyes. Yes, she is his, and shall be courted in the way of his people, with the plants of his jungle.Explore the deaths of desire and the jungle in this standalone, high-heat science fiction romance

I swore to protect humanity. He vowed to annihilate it. Now we are trapped together, lost in space, with no escape from the heat his gaze ignites in me.

When astronauts find an alien and bring it to Earth, humanity is torn: to kill or to use. I volunteer for the research mission to take this monster back to deep space. I must ensure my sister on Earth is safe. As a 30-year-old failed pediatrician, the odds may be against me, but I have a plan. Sabotage research results. Find the alien’s Achilles heel. Kill it.Except once I enter cryo-sleep, he is there. A nightmare resembling a Greek god, a monster with fangs... Zadriel. And he demands my blood.Then I wake to another nightmare entirely: my only ally on board is dead, and Zadriel is my main suspect. But he proposes a deal—my blood for his protection.Because, for some reason, he calls me his. His queen of dreams, his to protect. Can I trust him to hold up his end of the bargain, or will I be killed next? Or worse, be lost in his dream realm forever, captive to the pleasure of his bite?

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