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    Talon: Colony: Nyx #2 (Intergalactic Dating Agency): Colony: Nyx, #2
    Talon: Colony: Nyx #2 (Intergalactic Dating Agency): Colony: Nyx, #2
    Talon: Colony: Nyx #2 (Intergalactic Dating Agency): Colony: Nyx, #2
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    Talon: Colony: Nyx #2 (Intergalactic Dating Agency): Colony: Nyx, #2

    By Demelza Carlton

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    Rue joined the Colony for one reason: she wants her own farm, just like the one her parents had back on Earth, only better. She'll happily do any farm job – including assisting the gorgeous griffon pest control officer. So when she's forced to take another girl's place at the Intergalactic Dating Agency's speed dating event, she has only one plan: find a guy who also has no interest in making a match, and spend the night talking to him.

    When griffon shifter Talon agrees to help out a friend by being his wingman at the Intergalactic Dating Agency's speed dating event, he knows he won't find his match there. In fact, he might have already found her. The only problem is, she's only ever seen him as a griffon.

    Until fate throws them together…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLost Plot Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2022
    ISBN9798201279660
    Talon: Colony: Nyx #2 (Intergalactic Dating Agency): Colony: Nyx, #2

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      Book preview

      Talon - Demelza Carlton

      Talon:

      An Alien Scifi Romance

      Demelza Carlton

      Book 2 in the Colony: Nyx series

      Rue joined the Colony for one reason: she wants her own farm, just like the one her parents had back on Earth, only better. She'll happily do any farm job – including assisting the gorgeous griffon pest control officer. So when she's forced to take another girl's place at the Intergalactic Dating Agency's speed dating event, she has only one plan: find a guy who also has no interest in making a match, and spend the night talking to him.

      When griffon shifter Talon agrees to help out a friend by being his wingman at the Intergalactic Dating Agency's speed dating event, he knows he won't find his match there. In fact, he might have already found her. The only problem is, she's only ever seen him as a griffon.

      Until fate throws them together...

      COPYRIGHT

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2022 Demelza Carlton

      Lost Plot Press

      All rights reserved.

      Click here to get started – https://demelzacarlton.com/readerquiz/

      ONE

      I understand you have a pest problem, Talon said, leaning against the desk.

      The woman behind it jerked back in surprise. I didn't hear you come in.

      Talon gave her a lazy grin. Owls are known for being silent hunters. That's what makes us the best pest control team in the galaxy, right boys? He glanced back at the flock of meowls, who only ruffled their feathers and did their best to ignore him. Must be the cat part of their DNA, he decided, because unmodified owls definitely responded to sound.

      The woman sniffed, eyeing the chimeras with distaste. She might run a farm, but she was definitely the administration type. She'd probably never picked up a shovel in her life. I can't see why we need more animals here. Surely we can just put down some poison baits.

      Definitely a townie, and a dirtsider at that. Someone who didn't know the first thing about life in space, or under a dome. Because poisons leach into the soil and the water supply, and you've got to get the pests to eat the poison in the first place. Not to mention poison is a horrific way to die. That's animal cruelty, right there, and against the law here in the Colony. She was Human, then. No Titan could even stand to hear about animal cruelty, let alone suggest it. Whereas my meowls are experts in aerial search and destroy. Instant death your rats will never see coming. It is rats you have here, am I right? Talon peered at his tablet, swiping his knuckle across the screen.

      Yes. I don't understand where they came from. The Colony is meant to be a new, clean city, with no vermin at all.

      Just like every colony in the history of colonies. Where there are people, there are rats. They stow away on ships and pop up where and when you least expect them. And when they do, you call me, and I bring my crew to take care of it for you.

      The woman pursed her lips, as if she was about to change her mind about hiring him. If she tried, she was about to find out she didn't have a choice. He owned every meowl in the Colony.

      Seeing as you know so much about colonies, Mr Talon, I'm sure you will understand that every colony also has its precious young women, who are the real future of the Colony. Star Farm is a school, a very exclusive school for young women, specially selected for both their genetic profile and their ability to learn, as our FarmStars, as we called them back on Earth, will be the key to terraforming Elysium. But until they are ready, Star Farm is the sanctuary where we keep them safe. In fact, most of our girls have never seen an alien, and I would like to keep it so for as long as possible. Therefore, you will avoid all contact with them, only working at night when the girls have gone to bed, and should you encounter one of the girls, you will not speak a word to them. Those are the rules here at Star Farm. Do you think you can follow them, Mr Talon? Her eyes glittered dangerously.

      Or what? You'll spank me? he asked.

      Laughter should not sound that dark. Oh, I do not think it will come to that, Mr Talon. Unless that is where your tastes lie, in which case...perhaps we can consider that a reward in lieu of a bonus, if you can manage to follow the rules and rid the farm of vermin.

      Being spanked by an old lady. He'd seen a lot of horror films in his time, but the image this conjured up had to be worse than all the films combined. Talon couldn't suppress a shudder. "No,

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