As I was browsing Amazon searching for alien romance, I stumbled upon the multi-author holiday-themed “Stranded With an Alien” series. It’s amazing! I started out only getting the Ella Maven book, because I’m familiar with her sci-fi romance, but I soon had to binge-read the others in the series as well. My favorite stories in the series are by Ella Maven, Alana Khan, Honey Phillips, and Tana Stone. While each book has some winter, stranded, or Christmas element, each book has a different tone. In BAKI by Ella Maven, Baki is a beautiful blue Drixonian. He has some PTSD from when his people were terrorized and forced from their home territory. To soothe himself, he smokes a locally grown dried plant and lives life as a farmer rather than be the warrior he’s capable of being. While on a crop run, he stumbles upon a human woman who is injured and on the run from a vicious group of aliens. Baki gradually gains Thea’s trust and it’s a short but emotionally powerful love story. I think of TALIZ by Alana Khan as a cross between a Hallmark Christmas movie and a really hot barbarian romance. Taliz is a fanged and…