New Year, New Planet

A blind date to celebrate a new year on Neron sounds like an adventure, especially when he belongs to a little-known alien race.

As the lead flight attendant of a spaceship, I spend my life traveling. The new year's celebration finds me on Neron, an entirely new-to-me planet.

My blind date, an alien from the planet Aldrai, is huge, strong, and slightly intimidating. But he also turns out to be charming and easygoing, with an intriguing secret tail he keeps hidden from view.

I sense Greyx is wh...