Set Up: Keriam Norton has adopted what she thought was a stray dog. She doesn't realize the dog is Eric d'Ebrur in his canid form. He's come to Earth to find the Heartstone, a mystical artifact that Keriam inherited from her mother, in a last ditch bid to save his planet and his galaxy from the Gawan.
Excerpt
When the Stonebearer went
upstairs to bed, Eric shifted to his true form and, scowling, scratched an
insect bite on his naked hip. This primitive world could try the patience of a
Starfarer, let alone that of a warrior. The Stonebearer hadn't bothered locking
the doors. She'd left windows open. Obviously, the woman lacked an ordinary
sense of precaution.
He made a circuit of the lower
floor, securing both doors and windows. When he heard water running upstairs,
he took the opportunity to wash his face and hands in the kitchen sink. The
long, thin noodles and thick, spicy sauce she had prepared for dinner had
tasted remarkable but had been messy.
After he dried his face and
hands, he fetched a glass from the cupboard and poured himself a glass of wine.
He couldn't explore upstairs until she was safely asleep.
The Heartstone had to be here,
in this house. Somewhere.
Logic said she would keep it
close.
He sipped the wine, padding
into the front room to stare out the wide windows. The inky night glittered
with sporadic flickers of light. Some kind of flying insect, he supposed,
performing some sort of mating ritual.
"I'll fight the Gawan
with sword or blaster, fang or claw," Eric had told his grandfather and
Benamont I'sadhe. "But I will not take a wife."
Eric pursed his lips.
Supposedly the woman upstairs was his long lost Gar'Jael, his soul mate. If one
believed in that sort of nonsense. Eric didn't. And even if he did, he had no
room in his life for a mate of any kind. He intended to destroy the Gawan
before they destroyed everything he held dear.
For that, he needed the
Heartstone.
Not a wife.
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