Lost in Transit

Name: Lost in Transit
Author: Lara Roth

90 pages

He was bio-engineered to kill. She crash-landed on his planet and handed him a wrench.
KRILLY: The delivery was simple: land on the jungle planet, drop off ApexCorp’s sealed cargo, get out. Instead, my ship exploded on impact, my beacon died, and I woke up pinned under wreckage with a seven-foot Varkaani gladiator standing over me.

Horgox “The Hammer” Ka’reen is emerald-skinned, scar-covered, and hasn’t been touched with kindness in eight years. His bioluminescent markings betray everything he’s feeling when I get close—flushing gold when I make him laugh, burning white when I’m in danger.

When ApexCorp comes to reclaim their “defective product,” I don’t run. I stake my entire career on keeping him free. Because Horgox isn’t defective—he’s the best thing that’s ever crashed into my life.

HORGOX: I was created to fight. Engineered for violence, trained to kill, discarded when I developed the one flaw ApexCorp couldn’t tolerate: a conscience. My defect? I refused to kill a child. They spent eight years trying to fix what was never broken.

Then a small, stubborn courier crashes through my sky and hands me her tools like I’m not the most dangerous thing on this planet. Krilly talks too much, smiles too easily, and undoes three centuries of restraint with a wrench and her reckless, devastating kindness.

She thinks she’s protecting me. She doesn’t understand: I have killed champions in the arena without flinching. But the thought of losing her? That is the one thing I cannot survive.

Lost in Transit is a high-heat alien romance featuring a bio-engineered gladiator who’s never known gentleness and the tiny, fierce courier who teaches him that the strongest thing he’ll ever do is let someone in.

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