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Book Blurb

While working at Earth's Spaceport Prime, Devin McSmith meets Bastian Drago, an exotic and beastly alien from the planet Dega.

Devin and Bastian get to know each other and their relationship quickly heats up. Just as they begin to fall in love, Bastian disappears without a trace.

When Devin's encounter with Bastian triggers a startling change in his body, he is taken captive and held in a top-secret research facility.

Will Bastian find Devin before it's too late?

 

Book Review

'The Degan Incident' is set in a future world full of mighty galactic powers, evil xenophobes, and different species that seem to be mostly peaceful and usually prefer trading with each other over fighting. At least those in the Galactic Planetary Union do. Villains, of course, are the exception. It is always a treat for me to discover a "new future", with slightly different aliens, and this new-to-me author certainly succeeded in hooking me into wanting to know more about this universe.

Devin is a lonely spaceport worker, who has never had a family. As a war orphan he grew up under less than ideal conditions, and his only friend, Peri, a man who went through the continual disappointment at not being adopted, is close enough to be a brother. But Devin has managed to create a life for himself. He may not have succeeded to make it into the Union Navy and into space, but he has a job, an apartment, and is reasonably happy. When he runs into Bastian, a Degan who has arrived on Earth on a secret mission, he is floored by the tall, lion-like alien. Unfortunately, the guy vanishes just after they have made love for the first time, and the little "problem" he has unknowingly left Devin with causes Devin to come to the attention of some truly malevolent forces. My heart broke for him as they tried to get information out of him that he didn't have. His rescue couldn’t come soon enough. 

Bastian is a Degan, a lion-like species with lots of hair, huge teeth, and an ability to bond with their "one true mate" when they find them. He is on a super-secret mission but being with Devin makes him so happy that he is careless and gets captured. I cannot say much more without spoiling the story for you, but his reappearance and what happens next certainly had my on the edge of my seat.

I you like creative, imaginative science fiction with interesting human-alien relationships, if you enjoy reading about a lonely orphan finally finding the family he always wanted, and if you're looking for a hot read with plenty of suspension, action, and a very sweet ending, then you will probably like this novel. It's imaginative, has cute main characters (just don’t tell Bastian), and made me smile.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 158 pages/60285 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	10-August-2013
Price	$2.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thedeganincident-1267547-145.html