Something skittered out of the dark — and Laney Abner was exactly what it was looking for.
The thing had many surreal features: little ornamental spikes, brawny-segmented legs. The worst among them was an evil teddy bear face: black button eyes and a smiling fanged mouth. Everything to tell her it was happy to detect fresh blood after escaping the underworld or a sick scientist’s imagination.
Laney Abner has always wanted something bigger than Cosmic, Texas. Bigger than dead-end jobs and dead-end men. But when the night shift at the local grocery store puts her face-to-face with a predatory, egg-laying creature from somewhere beyond, her mundane life takes a dark and unexpected turn.
The alien isn’t just an egg-laying monster. It’s intelligent, possessive, and utterly fascinated by the one woman in Cosmic who isn’t running away. What begins as a terrifying encounter evolves into something primal, electric, and strangely tender. Laney finds herself not just accepting the creature’s attention, but welcoming it.
She’s not the only one. The invasion spreads. Cosmic erupts into moral outrage and eerie transformation. And Laney, now bonded to her alien lover and carrying his growing brood, must decide where her loyalty lies: with the town that never believed in her, or with the strange new life that finally makes her feel like a queen.
Night of the Facegrabbers is a science fiction romance tale of rebellion, taboo desire, and the unsettling, extraordinary power of love in its strangest form.
This book is 100% human-written.
