Shade: Colony: Nyx #6 (Intergalactic Dating Agency)

Demelza Carlton

Nov 2023 · Colony: Nyx Book 6 · Lost Plot Press

About this ebook

Iva’s family forced her to join the Colony, to keep her apart from the man she’d fallen in love with. What they didn’t know was that he was going to the Colony, too…

But when Iva wakes up from stasis, there’s no sign of him. With the help of the Intergalactic Dating Agency, she hopes to find him…only to be kidnapped by an alien.

An alien who wants her to pretend to be his wife, or he’ll get kicked out of the Colony.

Iva doesn’t mind a bit of role play, but when the chemistry in their fake relationship reaches boiling point…might she have found her perfect match?

Ratings and reviews

This short story is dual POV, well written, and a fast-paced, sci fi romance. I was amused by Iva’s self-centredness - she wasn’t malicious, just self focused and determined to get what she wanted. I enjoyed Shade’s similar self focus. Neither of these characters is particularly nice but they suited each other perfectly. I enjoyed their steamy intimate interludes and I enjoyed how the story furthered the background plot running through this series. I also appreciated the setup for the next story

Shade is an alien enforcer from the planet Tito lives on the Colony now and he needs to find a way to come to terms with his past but he has not been able to move on, he gets an ultimatum. Linnaea wants to return to Star Farms but Maia informs her that she cannot at the time she offers her a place to stay and a job. Linnaea finds her boss threatening her job. Romantic, and entertaining heartwarming alien love story. I read a copy without obligation. I volunteered an honest review.

Shade is an incubus who works as one of Hera’s Enforcers. He can’t get over being betrayed by his wife. Iva is living at Star Farms, sent there to get her away from a man her mother felt was unsuitable. She is not the woman he wants; he is not the man she wants. Once they are more or less forced together, will things change? This is a short, steaming hot romance with kink. What looks like a mismatch, just might be true love. I received an ARC of this book and voluntarily reviewed it.

About the author

Demelza Carlton is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 100 fairytale and paranormal romances, with over 4 million copies sold worldwide and readers in 30+ languages. She's best known as the queen of fairytale romance — author of the Romance a Medieval Fairytale series, a 27-book collection of steamy, meticulously-researched retellings of the stories you grew up with: Beauty and the Beast (Enchant), Cinderella (Dance), Little Mermaid (Silence), Sleeping Beauty (Awaken), Snow White (Reflect), Rapunzel (Weave), Red Riding Hood (Hunt), Rumpelstiltskin (Spin), Aladdin (Wish), Hansel and Gretel (Return)… twenty-seven and counting, all set in a single shared medieval world, all written for grown-ups who never stopped loving the happily ever after. If fairytales aren't your thing, there's plenty more on the shelf. Monster romance readers can pick up the Heart of Stone, Heart of Steel and Heart of Ice series — gargoyle shifters who protect the human women they fall for, and Norse gods (Fenrir, Thor, Loki, Odin) walking around in modern-day Perth, with all the chaos that implies. Romantasy fans should head to Fated Mates of Mirror Academy: dragon, lion, wolf, tiger and bear shifters in a steamy fated-mates shifter academy. Think enemies-to-lovers, found family, and one truly unwise dragon nerd. Sci-fi romance readers go to The Colony series — three arcs (Holiday, Aqua, Nyx), aliens with personality, cowboys (yes, really), and an interplanetary romance line-up that's gone seriously sideways. Romantic comedy lives in two places: Mel Goes to Hell (Lucifer is real, he's hot, and he's a terrible boss), and Romance Island Resort, a luxury tropical island where the staff keep falling for the guests — rock stars, billionaires and the kind of bridal parties paradise was made for. For the romantic-suspense and psychological-thriller end of Demelza's catalogue, head deeper. The Siren of War series stars predatory sirens — Homer's deadly seductresses, not Disney's Ariel — lurking in the deep off Western Australia's Indian Ocean coast, in aqua and turquoise water with currents that aren't nearly so polite. And the Nightmares Trilogy is the romantic-suspense series that started Demelza's career: a psychological thriller where a girl is kidnapped by a serial killer, survives against the odds, and turns vigilante when she fears ordinary justice will fail her. What ties everything together: funny, hopeful, sexy stories where the heroine isn't sorry about wanting what she wants, the villains absolutely get what's coming to them, and a little vigilante justice goes a long way. Meticulously researched but never bogged down in detail — bright, fast and unapologetically Australian. The personal bit: Demelza lives in Perth, Western Australia — officially the shark attack capital of the world. On her first ever snorkelling trip she discovered she was afraid of fish, then got over it; since then she's swum with sea lions, sharks and sea cucumbers, and once stood on a spray-drenched cliff as a seven-metre cyclonic swell surged in and shattered a shipwreck below her. (She had the camera out, naturally.) She can also assure you that sharks taste delicious. Where to start: the free reader quiz at demelzacarlton.com matches you to up to nine free books based on what kind of reader you actually are.