Horns: Colony: Nyx #4 (Intergalactic Dating Agency)

Demelza Carlton

Colony: Nyx Book 4 · Lost Plot Press

About this ebook

Since the Intergalactic Dating Agency opened, Vertumnus has only had eyes for one woman – the one he can’t have. So when Flora comes to him for help, he makes her an indecent proposal, knowing she’ll never accept.

Until she says yes…

Flora has always preferred plants to people, but now she’s been left to pick up the pieces of her aunt’s farm…and the lives of the girls who work there. In desperation, she asks her aunt’s accountant for help, telling him she’ll do anything to make up for her part in the whole mess.

Well, almost anything…

Ratings and reviews

This short story is dual POV, well written and edited, and a fun, fluffy escape into a world where even terrible things work out. I’ve been really enjoying this series and the continuation of an overarching plot that doesn’t overshadow the romance between changing lead characters. I enjoyed Tumnus’ genuine pleasure at being who Flora wanted; he never took her for granted. I enjoyed Flora’s joy at finding a relationship. I enjoyed their efforts working together toward overarching plot goals.

Horns: Colony Nyx #4, Intergalactic Dating Agency written by Demelza Carlton. Its a short story about human women being brought to another planet and matched with aliens... you know, like a dating agency. Flora is faced with defending herself in the case of her missing aunt and asks for the help of Tumnus, who has been interested her since his first time seeing her. They burn hot together work towards fixing things for the farm and for them!

While working on the books at the farm, an attraction grows between Flora and Tumnus. Their investigation into the workings of Star Farms yields answers, surprises, and a chance for love and a happy future for Tumnus and Flora. Another entertaining visit to the Colony with interesting characters, information about the farm, and romance. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.

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.