Book excerpt: Alliance Master Healer Lateef D’Oro narrowly escaped the Hatti Clanship, but will he die alone on this primitive planet? Lateef anticipated a state dinner on a Hatti Clanship, known throughout the galaxy for their incredible food and fierce warriors. Instead, a total misunderstanding leaves him injured and fleeing in an escape pod, desperately hoping that the nearby blue-green planet will provide a refuge. Young widow Danielle 'Dani' Hamilton stumbles upon a wounded stranger near her isolated mountain home. There’s something undeniably otherworldly about him, and she can’t shake the belief that she can sometimes hear his thoughts. She offers him a place to stay because she knows all too well what it means to be abandoned and injured. Just as she dares to hope they might have a future together, a squad of fierce Hatti warriors arrives, determined to make Lateef pay for his insult. Can Dani save the man she is growing to love and maybe keep Earth out of an interstellar war they are not prepared to fight? At Night’s End is the first book in the Beryllian Alliance series. It is a stand-alone story, but the adventures continue. All roads lead to Folly Springs, Colorado, where Terrans and aliens coexist.