THE ALIEN KING’S FORGOTTEN BRIDE

Maya’s 22, working dead-end shifts at a run-down roadside motel, counting down to her perfect wedding. Until the night before the ceremony, when she catches her fiancé Travis cheating on her with her cousin Brooke. Her wedding dress gets ruined by spilled champagne. Crushed and humiliated, she runs straight into the empty desert night, ready to leave every broken promise behind. Then the sky falls. Cael, an alien prince hunted and gravely injured by his ruthless older brother Darius, crash-lands right in front of her. Stranded far from his home planet, he can only heal and regain his powers through a rare, intimate life resonance with a human host—and Maya is the only one who can save him. They hide out in the beat-up old motel on the edge of town. Maya patches up his wounds and teaches him how to live like a regular person: biting into a greasy burger, driving a beat-up old car, dancing like nobody’s watching. For the first time in his eternal, duty-bound life, Cael gets to be ordinary. No crown, no war, no burdens. In return, he shields Maya from her toxic ex and cruel family, giving her the protection she’s always deserved. They fall fast and hard—kissing under the motel roofto…