ESCAPE TO EKALLIM is a sci-fi adventure with romantic and comedic elements, complete at 115,000 words. Readers that enjoyed the personal adventure-into-the-unknown vibes from The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, and readers that enjoyed the compelling-yet-digestible sci-fi elements found in The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel will find a lot to enjoy in this book.
When Rune was six and old enough to remember but too young to understand, he watched his house, with his parents inside, inexplicably explode. Two decades later, he’s carved out a mundane but safe existence filling his days sorting mail at a rural Post Office. He is comfortably in-control, albeit lonely. 
As you can imagine, such a life was terrible for dating prospects—after all, you can’t ask out the woman asking when the Garfield stamps will finally be released without risking pain, humiliation, and months of taunting from his possibly-demented, bully of a boss. But when a beautiful, alluring woman, Grayson, shows up at his post office panicked, he’s overcome with fear, curiosity—and attraction. She’s a fugitive on the run with a government agent after her; wanted for blowing up a house two decades earlier, an explosion which killed two people. Realizing he may have the hots for his parents’ killer, anything seems possible–this is proven when she tells him a short time later that she’s an alien, as is the agent chasing her.
To survive an interstellar conspiracy that spans space and time, and threatens humanity, Rune will have to tolerate a grating forced proximity to the attractive-yet-arrogant Grayson, to learn how to be brave and take risks, even in the face of his death, or potentially worse, humiliation. Through space, time, and a lot of passive-aggressive comments about humans’ inferiorities, it might take Rune falling for an alien, to learn how to fully live happily as a human.

Cinematic vibes: Romancing the Stone x Starman

[UNTITLED] Is a speculative horror/thriller. Natalie is a single mother raising three children after her husband inexplicably ran off last year. She struggles to balance her work as an physician, keeping track of her kid’s activities, and caring for her elderly and possibly-demented, mother, while fending off countless insufferable match-making efforts from colleagues and family. Sofia Valdez, a jaded, middle-aged police detective, is assigned to investigate the phenomenon. Once looked at as the department’s rising-star detective, a streak of unsolved missing-person cases has left Sofia questioning herself and her future on the force.
Figuring her life could not become any tougher, Natalie is proven wrong when a person dies a spontaneous and gruesome death in broad daylight with no obvious cause. The only indication of death is acute radiation exposure and catastrophic deterioration of tissue. Sofia is assigned to investigate these strange deaths. The  phenomenon repeats itself every few days, striking one random person in public, in broad daylight. Panic soon envelopes the community like wild fire. By the time a pattern is recognized in the attacks, Natalie’s family is already threatened.
To save Natalie’s family and community from this devastating force, Sofia and Natalie will work together to discover the truth of this phenomenon. To survive, Natalie will be forced to confront the source of her greatest pain, while Sofia will have to rediscover her faith in herself to be the detective she once was yet again.  

Cinematic vibes: Jaws x Chernobyl